All That's Left of You

In 1948 Jaffa, Sharif lives with his family amidst Israeli bombardment. Steadfast on protecting his ancestral home, Sharif makes the decision to move his family to Nablus while he remains to negotiate with the approaching Israeli forces. However, he is violently expelled from his land by soldiers and placed in a prison camp where he labours for months until suffering a heart attack, after which he is allowed to reunite with his family.

Thirty years later, a now-widowed Sharif celebrates the wedding of his youngest daughter, who is soon to join her older sister in Toronto; Sharif's eldest son has also relocated to Amman. Sharif resides in the West Bank with his youngest son, Salim, Salim's pregnant wife, Hanan, and the couple's two young children. One day, Salim takes his eldest son, Noor, to collect medicine for Sharif, who experiences heart problems caused by his heart attack, but the pair is stopped and aggressively taunted by Israeli soldiers imposing an impromptu curfew; Salim is forced at gunpoint to degrade both himself and Hanan in front of Noor. The incident radicalises Noor, who resents Salim's cowardice while growing closer to Sharif and his patriotism.

Ten years later, Sharif has died, and a teenage Noor roams the streets due to school closure. He encounters and joins a protest but is shot in the head when Israeli soldiers open fire on the crowd. Hanan and Salim transfer Noor to a hospital in Haifa to receive adequate care but, due to the couple struggling to retrieve permits in time, Noor fails to recover and is declared brain dead. Hanan and Salim grapple with the question of organ donation, conflicted by the prospect of Noor's organs going to a donee who might grow up to harm their people. After ruminating on the advice of a sheikh and the memory of Salim's mother dying from a lack of a kidney donor, Hanan and Salim agree to donate Noor's organs, saving the lives of six children. Noor's body is returned to the West Bank and a funeral is held. Later, Hanan and Salim travel to Tirat Carmel to visit Ari, the donee of Noor's heart and the only surviving Israeli donee. Ari is visibly apprehensive of the couple and does not speak.

Thirty-four years later, Hanan and Salim, now residing in Toronto, visit Jaffa, now a part of Tel Aviv. Hanan reunites with an adult Ari and recounts her family's history to him. Ari seems dismissive of Noor's story but reassures Hanan that he did not join the army, due to health issues. Before leaving, Hanan implores Ari to never forget that Noor “had a good heart”. Afterwards, Hanan urges a hesitant Salim to explore the city and revisit his childhood neighbourhood, where they find Salim's dilapidated ancestral home. As they watch the sun set over the sea, Salim teaches Hanan a poem that Sharif would recite to him seventy-four years prior.

"أنا بَحْرٌ في أَحشائِهِ الدُّرُّ كامِنٌ،
فَهَل سَأَلوا الغَوّاصَ عَن صَدَفاتي

(I am the sea. In my depths, all treasures dwell.
Have they asked the divers about my pearls?)"

• Saleh Bakri as Salim
• Salah El Din as Young Salim
• Cherien Dabis as Hanan
• Adam Bakri as Sharif
• Mohammad Bakri as Older Sharif
• Maria Zreik as Munira
• Muhammad Abed Elrahman as Teenage Noor
• Sanad Alkabareti as Young Noor

Initially set to commence production in Palestine, the Gaza war forced the crew to evacuate two weeks before the scheduled start date, and production was instead relocated to Cyprus, Greece and Jordan.^[8][9] In November 2024, it was announced Dabis, Saleh Bakri, Adam Bakri, Mohammad Bakri, Maria Zreik, and Muhammad Abed Elrahman had joined the cast.^[10] In September 2025, following the film's festival run, Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem were announced to have joined the film as executive producers.^[11]

It had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2025.^[12] It also screened in the Official Competition at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival in June, where it won the Audience Award for Best International Feature,^[13] and later screened at the 8th Malaysia International Film Festival in the Competition section on 25 July 2025.^[14] In August 2025, Watermelon Pictures acquired US distribution rights to the film, co-distributing with Visibility Films.^[15]

In the United States, the film will have an Academy Awards-qualifying theatrical run in Los Angeles on 28 November 2025, followed by a limited theatrical release in select cities on 9 January 2026, with nationwide expansions in subsequent weeks.^[11]

It is one of three films on Palestinian history to be submitted to the 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film – the others being Palestine 36 and The Voice of Hind Rajab.^[16][17][18]

The film will compete in the Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film section of the 37th Palm Springs International Film Festival on 5 January 2026.^[19]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 61 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "A moving chronicle of generational trauma and perseverance, All That's Left of You is a riveting drama that takes on the thematic breadth of an epic work."^[20] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[21] Of the film, M. Sellers Johnson shares that Cherien Dabis "offers questions on the nature of occupation, generational trauma, faithful futures, and the nature of diaspora (and return)."^[22]

• List of submissions to the 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of Jordanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film