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Bye Bye Tiberias (12A) (AD) + ScreenTalk

SAFAR Film Festival

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Two women look at a wall that has photographs and notes pinned on to it.

SAFAR Film Festival is delighted to present an exclusive Q&A preview of Bye Bye Tiberias ahead of its UK release by T A P E Collective.

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass 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. 

Tagged with: Cinema SAFAR Film Festival 2024

France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, 2023, dir Lina Soualem, 82 min 

Event end time: 10.45pm.

Languages: French, Palestinian Arabic

Captioned Screenings: Please note, this screening and Q&A are both HOH Captioned.

There is audio description available for this title. The film soundtrack comes through the speakers in the usual way and a recorded narrator explains what is happening on screen through personal headphones. Please ask a member of staff for a set of headphones.

Guest speaker: Lina Soualem, Director
Guest chairing: Rabih El Khoury

Lina Soualem

Bye Bye Tiberias is the second documentary of Lina Soualem, a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. Her first feature Their Algeria (SAFAR, 2021) shone a spotlight on her paternal grandparents as they embarked on a divorce later in life. 

The film received over a dozen awards from festivals in Europe and the Arab world. Bye Bye Tiberias won the Grierson Award for Documentary Film at London Film Festival 2023 and was Palestine’s submission to the Academy Awards in 2024.

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