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Measures of Distance
U.K., 1988
In Measures of Distance, Mona Hatoum weaves letters from her mother in war-torn Beirut with layered images and voice, exploring exile, intimacy and the ruptures of forced separation. Born to Palestinian parents in Lebanon, Hatoum became an exile herself when civil war broke out during a visit to London. This tender, formally complex video challenges stereotypes of Arab womanhood while tracing fluctuating definitions of home — shaped by memory, longing and the distances that characterize displacement.—Public Programmer Beandrea July
DCP, color, 15 min. Director: Mona Hatoum.
Bye Bye Tiberias
France/Palestine/Belgium/Qatar, 2023
Through present-day footage and family VHS archives, filmmaker Lina Soualem paints a lyrical, deeply personal portrait of four generations of women shaped by exile and longing. Soualem returns with her mother, actor Hiam Abbass (Succession), to their Palestinian village, where Abbass once took her swimming in Lake Tiberias “as if to bathe me in her story.” The film captures how its Arab women subjects carry history within them, even as the meaning of home constantly shifts beneath their feet.—Public Programmer Beandrea July
DCP, color, 82 min. Director: Lina Soualem. Screenwriters: Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous, Gladys Joujou. With: Hiam Abbass, Um Ali, Nemat Abbass.
