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"The Teacher": Palestinian Drama Filmed in the West Bank Examines Impact of Israel's Occupation on Children

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Watch our extended interview with British Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who discuss the new feature film The Teacher. Inspired by true events, the drama looks at how Israel’s decadeslong military occupation impacts Palestinian children. Nabulsi details the challenges of filming The Teacher in the occupied West Bank, and Bakri discusses how he drew on his own experience as a father to play the titular role.

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0:00.0

This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

0:09.7

As we bring you part two of our conversation about a new film, it's called The Teacher,

0:15.9

a feature film about the challenges of life in the occupied West Bank. It's directed by the BAFTA-winning

0:22.9

Oscar-nominated Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabusi and stars the acclaimed Palestinian actor

0:30.2

Salabakhri. They are here in New York for the film's premiere. We're going to go to another clip. We played several in the first

0:39.6

part of our discussion. This is Lisa, a British volunteer who works as a counselor at

0:45.8

Adam's school. She and Basim, the teacher, visit Adam after an Israeli settler killed his older brother Yaqub.

0:57.0

So when something like this happens, you shut down and you feel like he just want to give up. Adam.

1:26.6

I don't talk about this very much. I don't talk about this very much.

1:32.2

But ten years ago, my sister was killed in a car accident.

1:38.1

There was a hit and run, do you know what that is?

1:41.5

So they hit her with the car car and they just left her there

1:45.3

no one was brought to justice

1:51.8

they still have

1:54.4

no idea

1:56.9

who did it

1:58.4

and the whole thing

2:02.0

was just

2:04.9

unbearable

2:14.0

and I felt like everything was coming apart

2:18.5

and I was in a really dark place

2:21.4

and I still miss her

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