BYE BYE TIBERIAS
Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, Lina started working for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Lina’s debut feature documentary Their Algeria received the First Film Award in CINEMED Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film, the Best Arab Documentary Award in El Gouna Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at Cinemania Film Festival. Lina currently works as an author on fiction films, documentaries and TV series. She recently worked as a researcher and writing coordinator on the series Oussekine.
London Film Festival – Grierson Award for Documentary Film Montpellier
Mediterranean Film Festival – Ulysses Award for Best Documentary
Marrakech International Film Festival – Prix du Jury DOXA Documentary Film Festival – Feature Documentary Award for Best Documentary Cleveland International Film Festival – Nesnady and Schwartz Documentary Competition for Best Documentary
BYE BYE TIBERIAS (doc.)
Director: Lina Soualem
Country: France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
Year: 2023.
Runtime: 82’
Language: French, Palestinian, Arabic
Production: Beall Productions, Altitude 100 Production, Philistine films
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