Elhum Shakerifar

Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA-nominated producer and curator with particular interest in film from the SWANA region and most recently curating for London Film Festival (2014 to 21), Shubbak – festival of contemporary Arab culture (2015 to 2019), Barbican (Poetry in Motion: Contemporary Iranian Cinema, 2019) and BFI (Drama and Desire: The Films of Youssef Chahine, 2023). A poet and translator, she also runs the London-based company Hakawati ('storyteller' in Arabic).

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“VHS tapes from the 1990s opened the door to another world”: Lina Soualem on her Palestinian family memoir Bye Bye Tiberias

Winner of Best Documentary at last year’s BFI London Film Festival, Bye Bye Tiberias is a cinematic memoir delving into home-movie footage tracing lives of displacement and exile for four generations of women in a Palestinian family.

By Elhum Shakerifar

“VHS tapes from the 1990s opened the door to another world”: Lina Soualem on her Palestinian family memoir Bye Bye Tiberias
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