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Bye Bye Tiberias

Lina Soualem

Palestine, France, Belgium, Qatar

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Director's Biography

A French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actor, Lina Soualem was born in Paris, where she is still based. She started her career as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Her debut feature-length documentary, Their Algeria, had its premiere in the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in 2020. It went on to receive the First Film Award at the Cinemed Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film, the Best Arab Documentary Award at the El Gouna Film Festival, and the Best Documentary Award at the Cinemania Film Festival, among a dozen other awards. Soualem has appeared in three feature films, directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass, and Rayhana. She currently works as an author of fiction films, documentaries, and television series. She recently worked as a researcher and writing coordinator on the Disney+ series, Oussekine.

2023
82
French, Arabic
No
Documentary
Screenings :
Sat 25 / 15h00 / Salle des Ministres
Sun 26 / 18h30 / Cinéma le Colisée
Sat 25 / 15h00 / Salle des Ministres
Sun 26 / 18h30 / Cinéma le Colisée

In the presence of the film crew

In leaving her village to follow her dream of becoming an actor, 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.

Director Lina Soualem

Producer Jean-Marie Nizan

Screenwriter Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous in collaboration with Gladys Joujou

Cinematographer Frida Marzouk with additional cinematography by Thomas Brémond, Lina Soualem

Editor Gladys Joujou

Sound Gervaise Demeure, Julie Tribout, Benoît Biral

Music Amine Bouhafa

Colour Colour, black and white

Hiam Abbass

Production Company Beall Production, Altitude100 Production, Philistine Films

International Sales Company Lightdox

Pays

Palestine, France, Belgium, Qatar

année

2023

durée

82

langue

French, Arabic