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The Teacher

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S. R. Praveen

About The Teacher
Title: The Teacher
Original Title: المعلم
Plot: A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.
Cast: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Stanley Townsend, Paul Herzberg, Mahmood Bakri
Director: Farah Nabulsi
Cinematography: Gilles Porte
Editor: Mike Pike
The Teacher
S. R. Praveen
The Hindu
An honest portrayal of dehumanising oppression in Palestine

A house, lived in for years, bulldozed by the Israeli military in front of its inhabitants, leaving behind a pile of tangible memories under the rubble. A youth resisting the burning down of an Olive orchard shot down by a settler with practised ease and nonchalance, just as if it were the most normal thing to do. Soldiers violently barging into every single home in a village in search of an Israeli military man who was abducted.

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