This film is part of our Protest Season: ‘Speaking Out: Changing Times’
Bye Bye Tiberius (12A)
Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. A deeply personal exploration of Lina Soualem’s relationship with her mother, the acclaimed Palestinan actor Hiam Abbass, the film is also a powerful and pertinent testimony about displacement.
Abbass (Lemon Tree, Insyriated, Blade Runner 2049, Succession) always wanted to act and left behind her mother, her grandmother and her seven sisters to pursue her career abroad. Soualem’s love letter to her mother follows the actor as she returns home to the village she grew up in and traces the turbulent history of those she left behind.
Drawing on a wealth of archive footage, this beautiful documentary reconnects intimately with the women of Tiberias, Palestine and beyond.
FRANCE/PALESTINE/BELGIUM/QATAR 2023 1 HOUR 22 MINUTES
FRENCH/ARABIC + ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Grierson Award for Best Documentary, BFI London Film Festival 2023