The filmography of Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass looms as loftily in Hollywood and the West as it does in the Arab world. Yet, surprisingly, Abbass did not actively set out to become an actress.

HIAM ABBASS: I was already talking to a producer who wanted to do a movie. Lina had just finished her documentary about her other grandparents, and I saw what she was capable of, ...

‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ Review: Hiam Abbass’ Daughter Honors Women Who Learned to Leave Everything and Start Anew Reviewed in Marrakech Film Festival (online), Dec. 7, 2023.

Hiam Abbass will sustain the viewer’s attention for its entire 80 minute duration. By the end, the audience will be drenched in a wide spectrum of emotions.

Palestinian-French actress Hiam Abbass and her filmmaker daughter Lina Soualem touch down at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday with documentary Bye Bye Tiberias. The intimate work ...

HIAM ABBASS: No way!But in the beginning, of course, Lina wasn’t very clear about what she wanted herself. She knew she wanted to do a movie, she knew she wanted to speak about the women in my ...

A documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass that depicts how four generations of women in her family were shaped by exile has premiered before an emotional audience in Marrakech.

Hiam Abbass (“Succession”), Abderrahmane Sissako (“Black Tea”), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”), Adam Bessa (“Ghost Trail”), Yumna Marwan (“The Veil”) and “Anatomy of a ...

Hiam Abbass: I see you both as a continuation of my path, in a way. But I didn’t plan it. As a mother, I just wanted you to do what you wanted to do.

Hiam Abbass: I’m speechless in the sense of what I could express apart from sadness, disappointment, feeling that the years of my life went for, really, nothing.

A documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass that depicts how four generations of women in her family were shaped by exile has premiered before an emotional audience in Marrakech.

Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were shaped by exile and “learned to ...