All That's Left of You
Heart-wrenching epic drama about the life of a Palestinian family through the generations. A film about displacement, intergenerational trauma and protest.
In the occupied West Bank, 1988, the young man Noor joins a protest that’s met with devastating violence. Flashing forward several decades, we meet Noor’s mother Hanan (Cherien Dabis), who relates the story of her son – but in order to do so, she must first go back to 1948, in order to tell the story of his grandfather’s expulsion from Jaffa. Over the decades that follow, the hope of a return to the home in Jaffa remains an aspiration of various members of the family, even as their lives take them further away from it. Through all the disappointments and devastation abides the love story between Hanan and her devoted husband Salim.
In a film partly inspired by her own family, Cherien Dabis charts the history of a family that has experienced great tragedy, but also offers hope for the possibility of healing. (source: Sydney Film Festival)