Talleyn A. Burch

Mar 11, 2024 | roughcutfilm.com | Donnalyn Xu |Talleyn A. Burch |Tiia Kelly

In the grainy VHS opening scenes of Bye Bye Tiberias, a sparse country road leads to another, separated by unmarked time. 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.