Bye Bye Tiberias
dir. Lina Soualem / 2023, France / Palestine / Belgium / Qatar, 82' / Warsaw premiere
6.09.24
19:00
Kinoteka, plac Defilad, Warszawa, Polska
Director: Lina Soualem
Screenplay: Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous, we współpracy z Gladys Joujou
Cinematography: Frida Marzouk
Editing: Gladys Joujou
Sound: Ludovic Escallier, Lina Soualem, Gervaise Demeure, Julie Tribout, Benoit Biral
Music: Amine Bouhafa
Producer(s): Jean-Marie Nizan
Production: Beall Productions, Altitude100 Production, Philistine Films
World sales: Lightdox
Language: French, Palestinian Arab
Website: https://lightdox.com/bye-bye-tiberias/
SYNOPIS
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In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass, known for her role in “Succession”, left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives. Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds, despite exile, dispossession, and heartbreak.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Toronto Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (Grierson Award in Documentary Competition), DOK Leipzig, Chicago Film Festival, CPH:DOX, CINEMED (Award Ulysse Decipro), Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, DOC NYC, IDFA, ZINEBI, RIDM, Marrakech Film Festival (Jury Prize), Palm Springs International Film Festival, Tromsø International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Tempo Documentary Film Festival (Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award), HUMAN International Documentary Festival, FIFDH, Cleveland International Film Festival (Best Documentary in Nesnadny + Schwartz Portrait Documentary Competition), Human Rights Film Festival Zurich, DocsBarcelona, DOXA, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Encounters Film Festival, Tofifest International Film Festival, Antenna Documentary Film Festival (Audience Award), Dublin International Film Festival (Best Documentary Award, ICCL Human Rights Award)
LINA SOUALEM
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Her debut feature documentary “Their Algeria” premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020 and received over a dozen awards, including 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 acted in three feature films directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass and Rayhana. She currently works as an author on fiction films, documentaries and TV series, recently also as a researcher and writing coordinator on the series “Oussekine” (Disney+).
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