Bye Bye Tiberias
Special Screenings
Lina Soualem
82'
• 2023
• France • Palestine • Belgium • Qatar
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.
Selected Awards:
- Grierson Award for Documentary Film, London Film Festival, UK, 2023.
- Best Documentary Award, Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, France, 2023.
- Prix du Jury, Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco, 2023.