Bye Bye Tiberias

Hiam Abbass left her Palestinian village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter Lina, a filmmaker, returns with her to trace the lost places and scattered memories of four generations of Palestinian women. 

SYNOPSIS

Hiam Abbass left her Palestinian village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter Lina, a filmmaker, returns with her in search of the lost places and scattered memories of four generations of Palestinian women. Weaving together images of the present and family and historical archives, the film explores the transmission of memory, places, an ancestral land, femininity and resistance, in the lives of women who have learned to leave everything behind and start again.

Theme(s): , Colonialism, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, Portrait, War

DETAILS

Director | , Lina Soualem
Year | , 2023
Country | , Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar
Duration | 83 minutes
Original language | , Arabic, French
Subtitles | , French
Music | Amine Bouhafa
Editing | Gladys Joujou
Cinematographer | Frida Marzouk

DIRECTOR

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Lina Soualem

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Lina Soualem, French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, Lina worked as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Lina’s debut feature documentary Their Algeria premiered in Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2020. Their Algeria received more than a dozen awards, such as the First Film award in CINEMED, the Best Arab Documentary award in El Gouna Film Festival, and the Best Documentary Award at Cinemania Film Festival 2021. Lina acted in three feature films directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass and Rayhana. In 2020, she worked as a researcher and writing coordinator on the series OUSSEKINE (Disney+). Her second feature length documentary, Bye Bye Tiberias premiered in 2023 at The 80th Venice International Film Festival, then got selected at TIFF, BFI London Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, IDFA, DOC NYC, RIDM, Palm Springs & more. The film received several awards such as the Best Documentary Award at the BFI and the Jury Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival. Bye Bye Tiberias was chosen to represent Palestine at the Oscars 2024 and was nominated in the Best Documentary category at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

CAREER

Venice Days - Giornate degli Autori • IDFA - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam • Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal - RIDM • BFI London Film Festival • Festival International du Film Politique de Carcassonne • Un état du monde • Festival de cinéma En ville !

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1 | 

11 July 2024 at 21h10

Parc Molson 

Bye Bye Tiberias will be preceded by short films by Palestinian filmmakers : I would like to visit (2017) by Muhammad Nour El-Khairy, Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba (2017) by Razan AlSalah, and From where to where (2021) by Nada El-Omari. A discussion with the three filmmakers will follow the screening.

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