‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: How Documentarian Lina Soualem & Her Actor Mother Hiam Abbass Explored Their Female Lineage
deadline.comFollowing her film, Their Algeria, documentarian Lina Soualem returns to her family once again for an in-depth look at its rich history.
With Bye Bye Tiberias, Soualem focuses on several generations of women in her family, beginning with her mother, Succession star Hiam Abbass, who, as a young woman, left her home country of Palestine for France, where she still lives today.
While Their Algeria followed the story of Soualem’s grandparents who decided to divorce after 62 years, Bye Bye Tiberias looks at what it means to leave your family and culture behind and the generational thread between women. DEADLINE: Hiam, how did you feel when Lina first floated the idea of you being the subject of her film? HIAM ABBASS: No way!
But in the beginning, of course, Lina wasn’t very clear about what she wanted herself. She knew she wanted to do a movie, she knew she wanted to speak about the women in my family, the four generations, the transmissions between them, the way they each had survived, the difficulties she had to live in order to fulfill her life as a woman and as a mother, as a transmitter somehow.
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