"But holding onto that prosperous lifestyle proves impossible amidst the upheavals of that year's First Arab-Israeli War. While other locals reluctantly move elsewhere, and indeed Sharif packs his wife and children off for what's meant to be a temporary flight after shelling gets dangerously close, he stays on in the hopes of protecting their home and land. That effort not only proves futile, for a while it lands him in a prison labor camp."
"Thirty years later, a widowed Sharif (now played by Mohammad Bakri) is living in much diminished circumstances with schoolteacher son Salim (Saleh Bakri), his wife Hanan (Dabis) and their child Noor in the West Bank. All cling to some hope of living to see their rights restored some day, yet the situation only seems to get steadily worse. Later a tragedy occurs that underlines the embittering cruelty and arbitrariness of the occupation,"
Two new films are explicitly derived from real events and focus on occupied Palestine. One, All That's Left Of You, follows Sharif as he attempts to protect his family's orange grove during the 1948 war, endures imprisonment, and decades later lives in diminished circumstances with his family in the West Bank. The family clings to hope of restored rights even as conditions worsen and a later tragedy exposes the embittering cruelty and arbitrariness of the occupation. Both films reached the shortlist for current Best International Feature Oscar consideration, alongside Palestine 36.
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