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Dispossessed and in exile: Palestinian Lina Soualem's upbeat feature opens FIFDH film festival
euronews (in English)
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09/03/2024
'Bye Bye Tiberias' tells the story of four generations of Palestinian women who managed to keep their memories alive despite dispossession and exile.
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For 10 days every year in March, Geneva hosts the International Forum and Film Festival on Human Rights,
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combining cinema and debate on human rights violations around the world.
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From Russia to Palestine, global conflicts and struggles are countless and intensifying.
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Reporting on them might make a difference.
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There is nothing to be happy about in the world right now, if we talk about human rights.
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But we believe that culture and especially the power of images through cinema can make a difference,
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can bring strong stories, which can bring commitment and the desire to change this world in a better direction.
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There is the sea. There is Lebanon.
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For the opening on International Women's Day, the film "Bye Bye Tiberius" was shown.
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It was presented at the last Venice Film Festival and directed by Lina Saoulem,
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daughter of the great Palestinian actress Haya Mabass.
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I often wonder what you would have become if you stayed.
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What do I know, Lina, because I left.
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It's a film about four generations of Palestinian women in my family,
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about the way they managed to keep their history alive and their memory alive despite the depossession and exile.
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I think it's very important to celebrate the lives of these women, their combativeness, their complexity,
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to also value their humanity, especially in a context where Palestinians are completely dehumanized.
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There are dozens of films to be discovered and debates to be had in Geneva before the festival's closing on the 17th of March.
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A festival on human rights appears more than necessary today,
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with the aim of bringing together artists, activists and the public
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to mediate causes that are in peril all over the world.
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In Geneva, Frédéric Ponsart for Euronews.
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News.
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