How does one measure the worth of one’s life? Does one life have more value than another? These complicated questions are at the center of British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi’s featur…
The film follows Palestinian schoolteacher Basem , who acts as a father figure to two of his students, Yacoub and Adam , amidst turmoil in the West Bank. Upon meeting British volunteer worker Lisa , Basem struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance and his emotional support for Yacoub and Adam with the chance of a new romantic relationship.
Nabulsi, who was Oscar-nominated and won the BAFTA for her short “The Present,” opted to shoot in Palestine’s West Bank to ensure “authenticity” for the film as well as bring business to the film industry there. Numerous logistical challenges took place amid filming, such as filming delays due to roadblocks, as well as emotionally taxing experiences. “In the beginning of shooting, Israeli settlers started to torch olive trees in the same village Basem, the teacher, is from,” Nabulsi recounts. “Or on my way to work one day, I consoled a family as they stood in front of the rubble of their freshly demolished house. I hugged the mother in silence. I didn’t even know who she was, but we hugged and cried.
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