The documentary may be understated, with its long dialogue-free stretches. But the distractions that pull Abbass’s stare away from her daughter’s lens give Bye Bye Tiberias a pointedly political backbone that the documentary buoys with clever editing and a tangible self-assuredness.

Roxana Hadadi

New York Magazine (Vulture)

Bye Bye Tiberias is a powerful portrait of how broken things come back together over and over.

Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Filmmaker Lina Soualem’s sentimental journey with her actress mother Hiam Abbass becomes a powerful celebration of lives marked by separation, exile and erasure.