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Lina Soualem on Transitioning From Docs to Feature Filmmaking With Drama ‘Alicante’ That Will Star Her Sister Mouna Soualem
Lina Soualem on making the transition from documentary to feature filmmaking with the drama 'Alicante' that will star her sister Mouna Soualem.
After exploring her Algerian grandparents’ break-up in the doc “Their Algeria” and delving into how Hiam Abbas and her family were displaced from the city of Tiberias by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war in “Bye Bye Tiberias,” Soualem will now be putting a somewhat lighter tale on screen, albeit one that continues her exploration of “questions of belonging and transmission and exiles between generations” and “finding your place in the world,” as she puts it. “To escape such existential questions, she decides to join her family in Spain, where her parents have recently invested in a restaurant in a popular seaside resort near the city of Alicante,” says the provided synopsis. In Marrakech, Lina Soualem spoke to Variety about how making the transition from docs to fiction filmmaking will free her from the constraints of “reality” and why Alicante and Algeria are connected.
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