CFD 26| All that's left of you

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All That’s Left of You

LEM 21/04 > 22:00
NIC 20/04 > 22:00

145', 2025
Germany, Cyprus

Directed by
Cherien Dabis

Screenplay
Cherien Dabis

Cinematography
Christopher Aoun

Editing
Tina Baz

Production Design
Bashar Hassuneh

Costume Design
Zeina Soufan

Music
Amine Bouhafa

Sound Design
Paul Rischer

Cast
Cherien Dabis
Saleh Bakri
Adam Bakri
Mohammad Bakri
Maria Zreik
Muhammad Abed Elrahman

Producers
Thanassis Karathanos
Cherien Dabis
Martin Hampel
Karim Amer

Production Companies
Pallas Film
Twenty Twenty Vision

Co-producers
Janine Teerling
Marios Piperides

Co-production Company
AMP Filmworks

Executive Producers
Javier Bardem
Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis
After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.

Biography
Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American filmmaker and actress who resides in New York City. Her debut feature, Amreeka (2009 Sundance, Cannes Directors' Fortnight – FIPRESCI Prize), won over a dozen international awards, earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations, and was named one of the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films of the Year, landing her on Variety’s “Ten Directors to Watch” list. She wrote, directed, and starred in her second feature, May in the Summer. In television, she has directed acclaimed episodes of Hulu’s Ramy and Only Murders in the Building, the latter earning her a 2022 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. Her third feature, All That’s Left of You, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, won the Audience Award for Best International Feature at the Sydney Film Festival, and received Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Malaysia International Film Festival.

Awards

• Silver Yusr – Feature Film, Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia, 2025
• Golden Gate Award – Narrative Feature & Audience Award – Best Narrative Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 2025
• GIO Audience Award – Best International Feature, Sydney Film Festival, Australia, 2025
• Best Film, Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), Malaysia, 2025
• Audience Award (Publieksprijs), Leiden International Film Festival, Netherlands, 2025

Filmography
2025 All That’s Left of You
2013 May in the Summer
2009 Amreeka
2006 Make a Wish (s.f.)
2004 Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother (s.f.)