This Friday in Glendale we are pleased to open The Teacher, a drama starring Saleh Bakri and Imogen Poots about colleagues at a West Bank school who try to help a student cope with a tragedy.
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Palestinian-British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi was interviewed on the latest episode of Inside the Arthouse. After receiving an Oscar nomination for her short film The Present, Nabulsi spoke about taking audiences on an intense, emotional journey into the Israeli-occupied West Bank through a story based upon the actual experiences of her relatives. The story lifts the curtain on the hardships and difficult choices they have to make.
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“Extraordinary…riveting.” ~ Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
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“Captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances — and the lifesaving power of the relationships that people still manage to forge and nurture.” ~ Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic
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“Gripping and full of tension, The Teacher not only makes for a wonderful cinematic experience, but poses some all-important questions the wider world has seemingly avoided answering for too long.” ~ Grace Dodd, Little White Lies
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“Nabulsi hits the dramatic beats with confidence and Bakri has genuine distinction.” ~ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
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“Ground zero here – for the characters, for the nations, for the filmmaker – is futility. Nabulsi drops us on that ground and doesn’t let us pretend it’s anything else.” ~ Steve Pond, TheWrap
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“Ultimately, it’s this imbalance of power and relative worth (or the lack of it) of human lives that is the font of Nabulsi’s creative anger that propels her film.” ~ Namrata Joshi, The New Indian Express