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  1. Jun 28, 2024 · As a child, Lina Soualem’s mother took her to spend her summers with her family in Deir Hanna, to swim in Lake Tiberias, “as if to bathe me in her story.” These waters, near the borders of Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, and also known as the Sea of Galilee, are at the heart of Soualem’s second documentary Bye Bye Tiberias.

  2. Jun 27, 2024 · As a child, Lina Soualem spent her summers visiting her mother’s family and swimming in the waters of Lake Tiberias.

  3. Mar 19, 2024 · A camera shakily captures an azure view of the Sea of Galilee, taken from the vantage point of a moving car overlooking the water. The footage cuts to a clip of a young Soualem floating with her mother, the Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass. “As a child, my mother took me swimming in this lake,” Soualem narrates.

  4. Jul 4, 2024 · The lakeside that once saw families like Soualem’s teach their children how to swim now appears to be nothing more than a gaudy tourist spot with flashing lights and overbearing music. Abbass stands defiantly at the pier overlooking the Lake as soldiers walk by behind her.

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  5. Mar 11, 2024 · The shifting landscape cuts to a scene of a woman and child swimming in Lake Tiberias, over which French-Palestinian-Algerian director Lina Soualem narrates, “As a child, my mother took me swimming in this lake. As if to bathe me in her story.”

  6. Bye Bye Tiberias (Arabic: باي باي طبريا, romanized: Bāy Bāy Ṭabariyya) is a 2023 documentary film directed by Lina Soualem, written by Soualem and Nadine Naous, in collaboration with Gladys Joujou.

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  8. Jan 9, 2024 · Filmmaker Lina Soualem’s documentary Bye Bye Tiberias is a road movie that comes full circle. It begins with the talk of her family village Deir Hanna, and its borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and memories of bathing in Lake Tiberias.