'Todo lo que fuimos': Humanity as Resistance in Palestinian Cinema

The film documents nearly a century of Palestinian apartheid and displacement, examining generational trauma within Palestinian families.

In a moment when the act of narrating Palestinian history has grown politically perilous, filmmaker Cherien Dabis has turned to cinema as a form of testimony — tracing nearly a century of displacement through the intimate life of a single family. 'Todo lo que fuimos' does not argue its case through abstraction; it insists, quietly and stubbornly, that to remember is to resist. The film stands as a reminder that the preservation of a people's story is itself a political act, and that humanity, rendered in specific and irreducible detail, cannot be easily erased.

'Todo lo que fuimos': Humanity as Resistance in Palestinian Cinema

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