Lina Soualem on Transitioning From Docs to Feature Filmmaking With Drama ‘Alicante’ That Will Star Her Sister Mouna Soualem

French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem, whose documentary “Bye Bye Tiberias,” featuring her mother Hiam Abbas (“Succession”), launched positively from Venice and Toronto, is set to make her feature film debut with “Alicante,” a drama starring her sister Mouna Soualem (“Oussekine”) as a young woman on an existential journey that takes her to Spain. After exploring her […]
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