Bye Bye Tiberias
Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Arabic
Doors at 3:30 p.m.; Film at 4 p.m. Tickets $15.
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THE EXPERIENCE
Palestine’s entry for Best International Feature in the 2024 Academy Awards, this second feature from Lina Soualem premiered at Venice, won the Grierson Award at the BFI London Film Festival, had its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and won the shared jury prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival. Bye Bye Tiberias is an important film that beautifully portrays the complexity of Arab women’s lives.
Presented in partnership with The SWANA Rose Culture + Community Center — arrive early to learn more about their organization.
ON SCREEN: Bye Bye Tiberias
2023. Directed by Lina Soualem. Runtime: 82 minutes. Language: French, Palestinian, Arabic with English subtitles
In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass (Emmy-nominated for Succession) 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.