'Bye Bye Tiberias' tells the story of four generations of Palestinian women who managed to keep their memories alive despite dispossession and exile.
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00:00 For 10 days every year in March, Geneva hosts the International Forum and Film Festival on Human Rights,
00:07 combining cinema and debate on human rights violations around the world.
00:11 From Russia to Palestine, global conflicts and struggles are countless and intensifying.
00:17 Reporting on them might make a difference.
00:20 There is nothing to be happy about in the world right now, if we talk about human rights.
00:25 But we believe that culture and especially the power of images through cinema can make a difference,
00:31 can bring strong stories, which can bring commitment and the desire to change this world in a better direction.
00:39 There is the sea. There is Lebanon.
00:45 For the opening on International Women's Day, the film "Bye Bye Tiberius" was shown.
00:51 It was presented at the last Venice Film Festival and directed by Lina Saoulem,
00:57 daughter of the great Palestinian actress Haya Mabass.
01:01 I often wonder what you would have become if you stayed.
01:04 What do I know, Lina, because I left.
01:09 It's a film about four generations of Palestinian women in my family,
01:13 about the way they managed to keep their history alive and their memory alive despite the depossession and exile.
01:20 I think it's very important to celebrate the lives of these women, their combativeness, their complexity,
01:26 to also value their humanity, especially in a context where Palestinians are completely dehumanized.
01:32 There are dozens of films to be discovered and debates to be had in Geneva before the festival's closing on the 17th of March.
01:40 A festival on human rights appears more than necessary today,
01:47 with the aim of bringing together artists, activists and the public
01:52 to mediate causes that are in peril all over the world.
01:56 In Geneva, Frédéric Ponsart for Euronews.
01:59 News.
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