The San Diego Arab Film Festival presents films from and about the Arab World. The Festival includes 8 screenings over 5 nights. Tickets may be purchased for each screening as well as for 2 packages at discounted prices, one package is a festival pass for all 8 screenings and one for 3 tickets of your choice. Also available for purchase is an Arabic dinner (served cafeteria style) The menu varies for each night. The dinner menu will include musakhan, a traditional Palestinian dish of baked chicken, carmelized onions and sumac served over bread, and maqlubeh, a traditional Palestinian dish of eggplant and cauliflower cooked with rice, onions and spices.

Tonight’s screening, All That’s Left of You, begins at 6:45 PM

All That’s Left of You by Cherien Dabis (145 minutes)

An epic-scale journey into the depths of the Palestinian plight, masterfully tracing and carefully dissecting a multifactorial and convoluted intergenerational trauma. Starting in medias res, in a setting of pulsating action and anguish that leaves a tormenting question unresolved, we are plunged (and swept) from the get-go into a story of undulating pain and a recurring sense of futility. Divided into four chapters - the surge of violence during the Nakba in 1948; the consolidation of a new status quo in the West Bank in 1978; the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1988; and the filmic present of 2022 - Cherien Dabis's devastating All That's Left of You makes us both witnesses and participants in a fathomless and irreparable loss. Yet Dabis resists the lure of convenient sentimentality, weaving instead a labyrinthine character study, shrouding a series of underground and catastrophic conflicts within the bounds of family. In a meticulously paced yet heart-wrenching finale that imparts a bitter aftertaste of unfinished repatriation and existential uprooting, life and hope emerge as the sole bulwark against inhumanity and dehumanization.

All That’s left of You was Jordan’s Submission to the Oscars and was short-listed by the Academy for Best International Film.