The Match Factory will handle international sales for director Cherien Dabis’ decades spanning family saga “All That’s Left of You.”
Currently in post-production and by all accounts among the most anticipated projects presented at this year’s Atlas Workshops, the film follows three generations of a Palestinian family, tracking cycles of trauma beginning with the 1948 displacement from Jaffa and continuing through occupation, violence and present day heartbreak in the West Bank.
An acclaimed filmmaker and actor, Dabis stars as well, anchoring the film as a devastated mother to a teenaged son injured by an Israeli soldier. As her son’s life hangs in the balance, the grief-struck woman tries to make sense of her family and people’s heritage. Actors – and brothers – Saleh Bakri (“The Blue Caftan”) and Adam Bakri (“Omar”) co-star alongside father Mohammad Bakri (“Boy From Heaven,” “Homeland”), making the project a truly intergenerational portrait.
Produced by Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision and AMP Filmworks, “All That’s Left of You” has remained a subject of industry attention ever since the production had to evacuate its planned Jaffa shoot once the war broke out in Gaza. Dabis and crew would eventually shoot the full film in Cyprus, while the whole fraught situation inspired filmmaker Bilal Alkhatib’s documentary, “Unmaking Of.”
An in-demand TV helmer with credits on “Only Murders in the Building,” “Ramy” and “Ozark,” the Palestinian-American auteur broke out with her first feature, “Amreeka.” Dabis’ debut won raves at the Sundance Film Festival and picked up a Fipresci prize out of Cannes. Her follow-up, “May in the Summer,” opened the 2013 Sundance Film Festival before playing Venice and London.
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