DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY

Lina Soualem
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, Lina worked as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Lina’s debut feature documentary Their Algeria premiered in Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2020. Their Algeria received more than a dozen awards, such as the First Film award in CINEMED, the Best Arab Documentary award in El Gouna Film Festival, and the Best Documentary Award at Cinemania Film Festival 2021. Lina acted in three feature films directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass and Rayhana. In 2020, she worked as a researcher and writing coordinator on the series OUSSEKINE (Disney+). Her second feature length documentary, Bye Bye Tiberias premiered in 2023 at The 80th Venice International Film Festival, then got selected at TIFF, BFI London Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, IDFA, DOC NYC, RIDM, Palm Springs & more. The film received several awards such as the Best Documentary Award at the BFI and the Jury Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival. Bye Bye Tiberias was chosen to represent Palestine at the Oscars 2024 and was nominated in the Best Documentary category at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards. 

Filmography (selection)

Bye Bye Tiberias, 82min, 2023
Their Algeria, 72min, 2020

CREDITS

Director Lina Soualem
Screenplay Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous in collaboration with Gladys Joujou
Cinematography Frida Marzouk
Editing Gladys Joujou
Original Music Amine Bouhafa
Produced by Jean-Marie Nizan
Co-produced by Guillaume Malandrin, Ossama Bawardi, Mohannad Malas, Jacques-Etienne Stein
Production company Beall Productions
Co-production companies Altitude100 Production, Philistine Films, Tala Corp., Edmond Production

In association with ARTE France

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), PROCIREP & ANGOA, Doha Film Institute, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), International Media Support (IMS), Cinema and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, The Belgian Tax Shelter and Inver Invest

PRODUCER’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY

Jean-Marie Nizan
Jean-Marie Nizan is a director and producer of documentaries and audiovisual programs. After studying architecture, he turns toward moving images. He directed documentaries, TV shows, music recordings and short programs. He is the author and director of several documentaries on cinema and culture, from Femme et cinéaste (1996) to Cinéma by Michel Hazanavicius (2018). He directed films about cinema in Iran, China, Thaïland, Argentina, Australia and more. Since 2016, within Beall productions, he has produced films of all formats for cinema and television (Arte, Canal+, France Television, OCS as well as Ciné+). He also produces films for public institutions such as the Rmn – Grand Palais or the Paris Opera. Built around an association of directors & producers, Beall Production is a company that is used to all shooting and editing configurations. Through their personal experiences in production, direction, or conception of TV programs, videos for the Web, for social networks, trailers, short and long documentaries, they adapt to any situation. Stories are always at the center of their reflection.

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Beall Productions is a production company funded in 2012 by a collective of directors and producers. The company provides delegated or executive production for numerous documentaries, short programs and magazines, both for television for cultural organizations and for theater/cinema. Since its creation, the company has built solid foundations with the core business of its founders: a production company turned towards culture and in particular cinema and its links with society. Today, it continues to develop with a double desire to open up to projects more directly linked to history, society and global issues, and to new authors and directors. Beall’s production team is used to all shooting and editing configurations: reporting, live recording, direct, graphic design, archives. Stories are always at the center of their reflection. A story is told, is passed down, travels. It writes itself in our minds and in time. A story is made of words, but also images. That’s how Beall loves to tell them, by associating the two.

Beall Productions
43 rue de Saintonge
75003 Paris
info@beall.fr
+33 1 43 48 76 11
https://www.beall.fr

CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY

Altitude100 Production
Belgium
Rue du Fort 109, 1060 Bruxelles
+32 2 533 18 90
info@altitude100.eu
https://www.altitude100.eu

Philistine Films
Palestine
info@philistinefilms.com
http://www.philistinefilms.com