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

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.

CREDITS

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

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 !

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