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Film in Madrid: “Bye Bye Tiberias”
November 07, 20247:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
5 euros: general tickets at the box office.
4 euros: Tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Casa Árabe
Language Center students and Youth Card holders, by showing the proper
documentation. You may only receive one discount per ticket. Sales in
advance at www.casaarabe.es up to the day of the screening at 12:00 p.m.
Those tickets not sold online will be made available for purchase on
the day of the screening at Casa Árabe’s headquarters, as of one hour
before each screening (payment in cash or by debit/credit card).
Assigned seats with tickets.
Screening in the original language with Spanish subtitles. Colloquium afterwards in Spanish and English, with simultaneous interpretation.
As part of the Cinema by Women Festival, Casa Árabe will be screening this documentary by Lina Soualem on Thursday, November 7. It portrays four generations of Palestinian women, revolving around the mother, played by renowned actress Hiam Abbas. The film will be followed by a colloquium with Lebanese-Palestinian screenwriter Nadine Naous.
Bye Bye Tiberias, by Lina Soualem (Palestine, France, Belgium and Qatar, 82 minutes).
Thirty years ago, Hiam departed from her Palestinian village, leaving behind her great-grandmother Um Ali, her mother Neemat, her father Said, seven sisters and brothers, in order to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe. Her daughter, Lina, a filmmaker, decides to return to the village with her and ends up analyzing both her mother’s exile and her family relationships, including the influences of the women in her family on both her mother and herself.
Through this documentary, Lina takes us on a journey back to the the starting point when memory, resistance and femininity were first handed down across four generations of Palestinian women, by masterfully weaving modern-day images, family records, historical archives and fictional excerpts.
The film screening will be followed by a colloquium with the Lebanese-Palestinian scriptwriter Nadine Naous, which will be moderated by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Casa Árabe’s Cultural Programs. You can watch the colloquium live on our YouTube channel.
Nadine Naous was born in Beirut to a Palestinian mother and a Lebanese father.
After studying literature and film, she began her artistic by creating installations, super-8 films, videos, sound installations and photographs. She has written and directed four films screened and awarded at several international festivals: Chacun sa Palestine, Clichés, Home Sweet Home, Au Kiosque Citoyens! Navigating between Beirut and Paris in the forms of fiction and documentary, she has collaborated on several projects as a screenwriter, dialogue adaptor and actress: Sudan, Remember Us by Hind Meddeb, Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem, Sous le ciel d’Alice by Chloé Mazlo, Insyriated by Philippe Van leuw, Inheritance by Hiam Abbass, and others. In 2022, she co-produced Rakan Mayassi’s latest short film, The Key, along with First Sight films. She is currently developing two projects as a writer and director while working as a consultant for emerging European and Arab film directors.
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Thirty years ago, Hiam departed from her Palestinian village, leaving behind her great-grandmother Um Ali, her mother Neemat, her father Said, seven sisters and brothers, in order to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe. Her daughter, Lina, a filmmaker, decides to return to the village with her and ends up analyzing both her mother’s exile and her family relationships, including the influences of the women in her family on both her mother and herself.
Through this documentary, Lina takes us on a journey back to the the starting point when memory, resistance and femininity were first handed down across four generations of Palestinian women, by masterfully weaving modern-day images, family records, historical archives and fictional excerpts.
The film screening will be followed by a colloquium with the Lebanese-Palestinian scriptwriter Nadine Naous, which will be moderated by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Casa Árabe’s Cultural Programs. You can watch the colloquium live on our YouTube channel.
Nadine Naous was born in Beirut to a Palestinian mother and a Lebanese father.
After studying literature and film, she began her artistic by creating installations, super-8 films, videos, sound installations and photographs. She has written and directed four films screened and awarded at several international festivals: Chacun sa Palestine, Clichés, Home Sweet Home, Au Kiosque Citoyens! Navigating between Beirut and Paris in the forms of fiction and documentary, she has collaborated on several projects as a screenwriter, dialogue adaptor and actress: Sudan, Remember Us by Hind Meddeb, Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem, Sous le ciel d’Alice by Chloé Mazlo, Insyriated by Philippe Van leuw, Inheritance by Hiam Abbass, and others. In 2022, she co-produced Rakan Mayassi’s latest short film, The Key, along with First Sight films. She is currently developing two projects as a writer and director while working as a consultant for emerging European and Arab film directors.
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