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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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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