The Teachers’ Lounge is a riveting microcosm of society’s clashing principles
The Teachers’ Lounge (original German title Das Lehrerzimmer) comes from director Ilker Çatak (I Was, I Am, I Will Be), and though you may not have heard of this German arthouse film, it earned numerous end-of-year accolades and is now nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. The Teachers’ Lounge is a surprisingly gripping allegorical narrative about how seemingly trivial instances, under the right circumstances and involving certain types of individuals, can build up to damaging consequences.