Bye Bye Tiberias

Bye Bye Tiberias
  • Lina Soualem 
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Palestine
  • Catarrh
2023
82'
Screening schedule
  • Sunday, 2. November 2025.
  • 19:30
  • KIC
  • Free entry. Option to donate to the Free Palestine Initiative


Leaving her village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass (Succession) left behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter and director Lina returns with her on a journey through the vanished places scattered across the memories of four generations of brave Palestinian women. This poetic and intimate film transcends the boundaries of their family home to examine grief, identity, and the energy that drives us to find ourselves. The director delicately weaves her own family stories passed down through four generations, foregrounding the healing power of storytelling, while the tragic history of Palestine echoes in the background. It is a tender yet resilient film about women and the places that shaped them, a film navigating through anxiety and longing to forgiveness and reconciliation. Without hatred, but not without smoldering anger, the film critically examines statelessness and confronts the rupture and trauma of exile.


Lina Soualem 
Lina Soualem 

Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian director and actress. After studying history and political science at La Sorbonne University, Lina worked as a selector for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Her debut feature-length documentary Their Algeria (2020) premiered at Visions du Réel and won over a dozen awards. Her documentary Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) premiered at Venice, and went on to win 13 awards at prestigious festivals. The film was selected to represent Palestine at the Oscars 2024.


Film information

Director: Lina Soualem

Screenplay: Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous u suradnji s Gladys Joujou

Director of photography: Frida Marzouk

Editing: Gladys Joujou

Producer: Jean-Marie Nizan, Guillaume Malandrin, Ossama Bawardi, Mohannad Malas, Jacques-Etienne Stein

Production: Beall Productions, Altitude100 Production, Philistine Films, Tala Corp., Edmond Production

Festivals and awards: Venice International Film Festival 2023; Toronto International Film Festival 2023; BFI London Film Festival 2023. – Grierson Prize for Best Documentary; Cinemed 2023 – Ulysse Decipro Award

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