The Teachers’ Lounge, a double award winner of the Berlin Film Festival and other international festivals, is the third and last of the 2024 Oscar-nominated international films screened in our program.

When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, Carla Nowak, a new idealistic teacher, decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. She tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues, and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break. Directed by a young German-born Turkish director, Ilker Catak.  In German, with English subtitles.  98 minutes.

Box office opens at 6. Films start at 7 PM , tix are $10, cash preferred