During a seemingly normal school day, Basem (Saleh Bakri), a dedicated West Bank educator with hypnotizing eyes, encourages his student Yacoub (Mahmoud Bakri) to get back on track with his studies ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When The Teacher begins, the soft-spoken teacher, who lives alone, is wrestling with grief on multiple fronts. Slowly, the film reveals that Basem’s ...

The protagonist of “The Teacher” is at the nexus of several dramas at once.. Basem (Saleh Bakri), a Palestinian who teaches English at a school in the West Bank, is focused on helping a ...