Film Screening – Tour De Gaza (2019) and Bye Bye, Tiberias (2023)

TITLE

Film Screening – Tour De Gaza (2019) and Bye Bye, Tiberias (2023)

WHEN

Tuesday 26th November 2024

TIME

5.30-9pm

5.30pm – doors open

6pm – screening starts

8pm - discussion

WHERE

Flourish House

23-25 Ashley Street

Glasgow

G3 6DR

COST

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MORE INFO

Tour De Gaza (2019)

Running time 19 mins

Language - Arabic

Subtitles - English

Bye Bye Tiberias (2023)

Running time 82 mins

Language - Arabic, French

Subtitles - English

Rating - PG

Tour De Gaza is a portrait of Alaa al-Dali, a cycling champion who qualified for the Asian Games in 2018. Scared of not obtaining the visa, on the 30th of March 2018 he joined the Great March of Return with his bike, wearing his cycling gear as a way to reclaim his rights as an athlete. During the march, Alaa al-Dali gets shot by an Israeli sniper and has his right leg amputated, just as the Tour of Italy was taking off in Israel. Three months later he became Gaza’s first paralympic cyclist, in a land where, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics at the time of filming, about 130,000 people (nearly 7% of the population) was disabled.

“Raising the Palestinian flag in international competitions is a form of nonviolent resistance ”, as so he keeps cycling and dreaming towards the Paralympic in 2020.

As part of the screening, we will be selling T-shirts to raise money for Gaza Sunbirds, a paracycling group that has shifted its focus, during the genocide, from athletics to aid distribution. They say, “we are not aid workers, but a group of athletes who know how to make things happen in Gaza”.

Bye Bye Tiberias is a deeply personal exploration of director, Lina Soualem’s relationship with her mother, the acclaimed Palestinan actor Hiam Abbass, and is also a powerful and pertinent testimony about displacement. Abbass (Lemon Tree, Insyriated, Blade Runner 2049, Succession) always wanted to act and left behind her mother, her grandmother and her seven sisters to pursue her career abroad. Soualem’s love letter to her mother follows the actor as she returns home to the village she grew up in and traces the turbulent history of those she left behind. Drawing on a wealth of archive footage, this beautiful documentary reconnects intimately with the women of Tiberias, Palestine and beyond.

Watch the trailer for Bye Bye, Tiberias here.

After the screening there will be time to discuss the films and surrounding issues. The screening aims to be a place of support and belonging for People of Colour and a place where white allies can take responsibility for their own learning. We hope to raise searching questions and explore issues in a supportive environment. It’s OK to make mistakes but please own your mistakes.

The screening will take place at Flourish House. The film will be captioned and some light refreshments will be available.

Flourish House is a short walk from a First Bus no.4 bus stop and St George’s Cross subway station. There are limited parking spaces directly outside the building along with parking payment meters.

Host or Publisher Woodlands Community