All That's Left of You

A moving, award-winning family chronicle from the West Bank, in which a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest march in 1988, setting off a chain of fateful events.

Spanning seven decades, Cherien Dabis’s ambitious epic drama traces the hopes and heartbreak of a family forced into exile. In 1948, the teenager’s grandparents are driven from their home and orange groves in Jaffa when the state of Israel is declared, and the film follows their displacement – and the broader Palestinian experience – across generations to the present day. The result is a powerful and deeply affecting story that lays bare the wounds of displacement while affirming the unbreakable force of survival, and how life must go on, despite everything.

• Johan Blomqvist