All That\u2019s Left of You<\/a>,\u201d a drama about a Palestinian family through more than 76 years, alongside his sons, Adam and Saleh Bakri, who are also actors. The film has been shortlisted by the Academy Awards for the best international feature film. <\/p>\nOver the years, he made several films that spanned the spectrum of Palestinian experiences. He also acted in Hebrew, including at Israel\u2019s national theater in Tel Aviv, and appeared in a number of famous Israeli films in the 1980s and 1990s. He studied at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n
Bakri, who was born in northern Israel and held Israeli citizenship, dabbled in both film and theater. His best-known one-man-show from 1986, \u201cThe Pessoptimist,\u201d based on the writings of Palestinian author Emile Habiby, focused on the intricacies and emotions of someone who has both Israeli and Palestinian identities.<\/p>\n
During the 1980s, Bakri played characters in mainstream Israeli films that humanized the Palestinian identity, including \u201cBeyond the Walls,\u201d a seminal film about incarcerated Israelis and Palestinians, said Raya Morag, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who specializes in cinema and trauma. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe broke stereotypes about how Israelis looked at Palestinians, and allowing someone Palestinian to be regarded as a hero in Israeli society,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a very brave person, and he was brave by standing to his ideals, choosing not to be conformist in any way, and paying the price in both societies,\u201d said Morag. <\/p>\n
Bakri faced some pushback within Palestinian society for his cooperation with Israelis. After \u201cJenin, Jenin,\u201d he was plagued by almost two decades of court cases in Israel, where the film was seen as unbalanced and inciting. <\/p>\n
In 2022, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court upheld a ban on the documentary, saying it defamed Israeli soldiers, and ordered Bakri to pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages to an Israeli military officer for defamation.<\/p>\n
\u201cJenin, Jenin\u201d was a turning point in Bakri\u2019s career. In Israel, he became a polarizing figure and he never worked with mainstream Israeli cinema again, Morag said. \u201cHe was loyal to himself despite all the pressures from inside and outside,\u201d she added. \u201cHe was a firm voice that did not change during the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local media quoted Bakri\u2019s family as saying he died Wednesday after suffering from heart and lung problems. His cousin, Rafic, told the Arabic news site Al-Jarmaq that Bakri was a tenacious advocate of the Palestinians who used his works to express support for his people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am certain that Abu Saleh will remain in the memory of Palestinian people everywhere and all people of the free world,\u201d he said, using Mohammed Bakri\u2019s nickname.<\/p>\n
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AP correspondent Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":472068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97,435,214139,171,57,99,214138,53,12299,214140,6602,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-472067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-emile-habiby","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-mohammad-bakri","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-notable-deaths","17":"tag-saleh-bakri","18":"tag-tel-aviv","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783933861194488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}