The Teacher (+ Director Q&A)

Name: The Teacher (+ Director Q&A)
Start: 2024-12-01T14:10:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-01T16:45:00+00:00
Location: Watershed

Schedule

Sun Dec 01 2024 at 02:10 pm to 04:45 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Watershed | Bristol, EN

Bristol Palestine Film Festival presents:
THE TEACHER
Plus Zoom Q&A with director Farah Nabulsi
Sunday 1st December
14:10 - 16:45
Watershed
£11 / £8.50 / £5
A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer worker (Imogen Poots). The Teacher was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023.
118 mins
Dir. Farah Nabulsi (2023)
UK / Palestine
DONATIONS:
All donations raised from this year's festival will be shared between two initiatives dedicated to supporting Palestinian filmmaking and filmmakers: FilmLab Palestine, based in Ramallah, and the children’s animation workshop My Story Became a Film in Gaza.
FilmLab Palestine's mission is “to boost film production and viewership in Palestine by providing the ideal space for filmmakers to convene, evoke learning, exchange experiences, inspire one another, produce film art, while exposing viewers to a diverse repertoire of films.”
My Story became a Film's founder, Haneen Muhammad Koraz, said: "I deeply believe that every person has the right to express themselves freely, and that art making and learning cartoon films is one of the means of free expression, audio-visually, for all segments of society. I tried to change the reality, even if just a little, for the children and women in the tents and I have conducted workshops specifically for children. Children and women draw, color, discuss, play, learn using the photography program, photograph scenes, write stories that express their suffering and reality, draw cartoon characters, and record their voices on film. They have created many cartoon films."
Part of Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024.
See the full festival programme here: https://bristolpff.org.uk