With All That’s Left of You, Cherien Dabis creates an intimate and multi-layered historical epic that spans several generations, yet remains closely focused on a single family.

The film follows Noor, a Palestinian teenager growing up in the shadow of a history he never experienced firsthand, yet one that profoundly shapes his life. Through his father Salim (Saleh Bakri) and grandfather, a story unfolds that begins in Jaffa and moves to refugee camps in the West Bank, culminating in a confrontational return to the present.

All That’s Left of You is not an explicit political pamphlet, but a film about what history does to people. How loss, humiliation, and displacement become entrenched in families and span generations. At the same time, the film continues to search for what remains: humanity, resilience, and the possibility of resistance in small, personal gestures.

With strong performances and a broad temporal structure, the film balances between intimate drama and historical consciousness. What begins as the story of one family grows into a universal reflection on memory, trauma, and survival.