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Director Lina Soualem Talks about Palestine’s Oscar submission ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’

Posted by Adham Youssef | Oct 14, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Leipzig 2023 |

Lina Soualem is touring global festivals with her very personal documentary’ Bye Bye Tiberias’, in “a moment of great tragedy and despair”.

Bye Bye Tiberias

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023 |

Directed by Hiam Abbass’s daughter Lina Soualem, this beautifully layered, quietly intelligent documentary explores her female-centric family’s experiences of dispossession and exile following the 1948 Nakba, seeking to break the silence surrounding trauma.