All That's Left of You (???? ???? ???)

Director: Cherien Dabis
Screenwriters: Cherien Dabis

Institute History

  • 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Description

After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.


In her extraordinary, profoundly moving third feature, Palestinian American actor and filmmaker Cherien Dabis (Amreeka, 2009 Sundance Film Festival; May in the Summer, 2013 Sundance Film Festival) chronicles the lives of three generations of a Palestinian family spanning almost 75 years of history. Both epic and intimate in the same breath, expertly crafted and deeply personal, the film is reminiscent of cinema’s most enduring family sagas. Its ensemble of intricately drawn characters, intertwining lives, dreams, and frictions are carefully stitched into a larger historical tapestry. In addition to writing and directing, Dabis stars alongside the incomparable Saleh Bakri. Together they portray a married couple whose beautiful relationship and shared anguish form the film’s heart and soul while also contending with Palestinian history, collective grief, anger, and intergenerational trauma. A heartbreaking, soul-searching film, All That’s Left of You is also an exploration of healing.—John Nein


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This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.

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