“I wish my mother was here so I could ask her...” When Hiam Abbas (Succession, Munich) was twenty-three, she decided to leave her native village in Palestine to pursue a career in acting. Several decades later, she returns home alongside her daughter Lina Soualem to complete a cinematic portrait of her family that is also a chronicle of four generations of indomitable women facing voluntary and forced separation. In her extremely personal and, in its level of openness, highly moving film, Soualem tells the tragic story of all of Palestine through the stories of her mother and other women, affirming that no amount of destruction can break the bonds of family.
Viktor Palák
82 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
Director Lina Soualem
/ Screenplay Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous, Gladys Joujou
/ Dir. of Photography Frida Marzouk
/ Music Amine Bouhafa
/ Sound Ludovic Escallier, Lina Soualem
/ Editor Gladys Joujou
/ Producer Jean-Marie Nizan
/ Production Beall Productions
/ Coproduction Altitude100 Production, Philistine Films, Tala Corp., Edmond Production
/ Sales Lightdox
Lina Soualem. Selected filmography: Their Algeria (Leur Algérie, 2020, doc.), Bye Bye Tiberias (Bye Bye Tibériade, 2023, doc.)
Lightdox
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Nadine Naous
Screenwriter
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