Special Screenings / Illi baqi minnak / Germany, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2025
The West Bank, 1988. A Palestinian teenager eagerly joins local protests against Israeli soldiers. Suddenly the scene freezes and, with fervour and anguish written on her face, his mother turns to us – witnesses to the dark chapters of the past century – to start telling the story: seven decades in the life of one uprooted family, beginning in 1948, when Zionist paramilitary organizations expelled more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes. But this epic chronicle about a family’s struggle to remain together and preserve its dignity in the face of more powerful forces neither judges nor lays blame. In sharing the Palestinian experience with wisdom and in an unusually captivating manner, it touches the heart all the more intensely.
Lorenzo Esposito
145 min / Color, DCP
European premiere
Director Cherien Dabis
/ Screenplay Cherien Dabis
/ Dir. of Photography Christopher Aoun
/ Music Amine Bouhafa
/ Sound Paul Rischer
/ Editor Tina Baz
/ Art Director Bashar Hassuneh
/ Producer Thanassis Karathanos, Cherien Dabis, Martin Hampel, Karim Amer
/ Production Pallas Film
/ Coproduction Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Displaced Pictures, Nooraluna Productions, AMP Filmworks, ZDF/ARTE
/ Cast Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Mohammad Bakri, Muhammad Abed Elrahman
/ Sales The Match Factory
Cherien Dabis. Selected filmography: The D Word (2005), Amreeka (2009), May in the Summer (2013), All That's Left of You (Illi baqi minnak, 2025).
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