Doing ‘Justice To The Injustice’ in Palestinian Film - Mehdi Chats With Filmmaker Farah Nabulsi

When the ugliness of Israel’s crimes in occupied Gaza overshadows the ugliness of its crimes in the occupied West Bank, films like Farah Nabulsi’s latest release, ‘The Teacher,’ become all the more important.

“I hope the film actually now offers a deeper context that I might not have set out to provide when I first made this film,” said Filmmaker Farah Nablusi, “a deeper human context that seems to be missing from the discourse”.

The BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated Palestinian Director joins Mehdi to discuss her latest film, which centers around the struggle of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank through the lens of a school teacher there.

The movie was filmed entirely in the occupied West Bank before October 7, 2023. However, Nabulsi — a UK native — faced difficulties securing a distributor in the UK for her film, which centers on the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

“What's crazy is this is a British-Palestinian film, and I am a British-Palestinian filmmaker, and you would think that we would have got distribution in the UK, considering this film has won, now, 20 international awards… it ticked all the boxes, and yet we didn't have distribution.”

Nabulsi went on to self-distribute the film, which was released in the US just last month. Head to theteacher.film to find a screening near you.

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