Film Workers for Palestine & Partners present two award-winning films – Lina Soualem’s feature documentary Bye Bye Tiberias, preceded by Samira Badran’s animated short Memory Of The Land, and followed by a reception for all ticketholders.

MEMORY OF THE LAND

Dir. Samira Badran • 2017 • 12:50 min

Palestine. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, which is aggressive and arbitrary and prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.

BYE BYE TIBERIAS

Dir. Lina Soualem • 2023 • 82 min

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass (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.

Post-screening reception generously sponsored by Center for Asian American Media.