Long before the Hamas attacks against Israeli citizens on Oct. 7, 2023, Dabis had started work on “All That’s Left of You,” a film that opens with a Palestinian teen confronting Israeli soldiers and ...

In her feature film work, Palestinian-American writer-director-actor Cherien Dabis has been telling intimately specific familial stories since "Amreeka" (2009). That was the filmmaker's elegant, ...

In her third feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Amreeka' director tells a multigenerational story of a family ...

Cherien Dabis has crafted a moving narrative that navigates the struggles of a multi-generational Palestinian family.

There are stories that need to be told. There are experiences that we need to understand. This is one of those films that ...

Sundance 2025: Writer/director/star Cherien Dabis tells a painful story with a delicate touch Saleh Bakri and Cherien Dabis appear in All That's Left of You by Cherien Dabis, an official selection ...

One of the Sundance Film Festival’s greatest impacts has been as a prominent venue in the Western world to shine the light of humanity on documentaries and narrative features from places where erasure ...

At the beginning of Cherien Dabis’ sweeping historical drama All That’s Left of You, a protest erupts in a refugee camp. It’s 1980 in the occupied West Bank and Noor (Muhammad Abed Elrahman, excellent ...

In her feature film work, Palestinian-American writer-director-actor Cherien Dabis has been telling intimately specific familial stories since “Amreeka” (2009). That was the filmmaker’s ...

With a compassionate, observant look at generational trauma, the 'Amreeka' director's third feature is a meaningful contribution toward Palestinian narratives — but also an uneven one. Still ...