All That's Left of You
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Three generations of the Hammad family in the West Bank from 1948 to 2022 are portrayed. The film begins in the present. When Palestinian teenager Noor is injured at a protest against Israeli soldiers, his mother tells him the story of his family. Grandfather Sharif, a humane, poetry-loving man, lived in a beautiful house surrounded by an orange grove. During the Nakba, everything was completely destroyed and land deeds were invalidated. After a period in a refugee camp, the story moves to 1978, to an area populated by Palestinians forced to live in overcrowded neighborhoods, with no orange trees but regular curfews. Through the decades, the family continues a tireless struggle to maintain a dignified life in the face of oppression.
This family story is a...
Three generations of the Hammad family in the West Bank from 1948 to 2022 are portrayed. The film begins in the present. When Palestinian teenager Noor is injured at a protest against Israeli soldiers, his mother tells him the story of his family. Grandfather Sharif, a humane, poetry-loving man, lived in a beautiful house surrounded by an orange grove. During the Nakba, everything was completely destroyed and land deeds were invalidated. After a period in a refugee camp, the story moves to 1978, to an area populated by Palestinians forced to live in overcrowded neighborhoods, with no orange trees but regular curfews. Through the decades, the family continues a tireless struggle to maintain a dignified life in the face of oppression.
This family story spans seven decades. Beginning in 1948, Palestinian families were systematically driven from their homes to make a Jewish state possible. This is called the Nakba: "The Disaster" or "The Catastrophe. This refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through the violent displacement and dispossession of their land, property and possessions, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity and political rights. Contemporary Palestinians believe that the Nakba is still not over.