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‘All That’s Left of You’ Director on Crafting the Sundance-Bound Palestinian Story as War Broke Out: ‘We Were Making a Movie About What Was Happening, as It Was Happening’
Cherien Dabis, the Palestinian-American director of Sundance-Bound intergenerational epic 'All That’s Left of You,' on her journey to the film.
The drama, which takes its cue from a Palestinian teen confronting Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest – after which his mother recounts the events that led him to that fateful moment – was in pre-production in Palestine when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, forcing Dabis and the crew to relocate. Below, Dabis speaks to Variety about her personal connection to this ambitious labor of love and what drives her hope for the Palestinian people despite the fact that “the politicians have failed us.” He lived most of his life in forced exile and had to get foreign citizenship in order to return to just visit his family in the West Bank, the only home he’d ever known.
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