In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.
The Garden Cinema View:
The timing for the release of All That’s Left of You is all the more prescient, given it comes on the heels of Annemarie Jacir's much lauded Palestine 36. Cherien Dabis' epic following three generations of a Palestinian family through displacement and political upheaval picks up shortly where the former left off - after the Arab uprising of 1936. With the 1948 Nakba (the forced displacement of 750,000 Palestinians) as her starting point, Cherien hones in on the intimate, personal ramifications of decades of occupation and dispossession: the burgeoning resentment and rage, the daily humiliations, the moral dilemmas... Filmed with a beautiful attention to the mundane, All That's Left of You is an emotionally charged, overwhelming and captivating portrait of a regular family forced to endure extraordinary circumstances.
