THE TEACHER is the feature debut of Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi who endeavours to take audiences on an intense, emotional journey into the lives and experiences of those living in occupied and colonised Palestine, and lift the curtain on the hardships and difficult choices they have to make.
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