Lina Soualem

Acting

Lina Soualem

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress.

Known for

Colours of Time poster
7.3

When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back and forth in time, they meet the mysterious Adèle, whose bohemian lifestyle, and her relationships with the leading artists of the time, changes their lives.

Colours of Time

2025

I Still Hide to Smoke poster
6.9

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.

I Still Hide to Smoke

2017

You Deserve a Lover poster
5.8

Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.

You Deserve a Lover

2019

Their Algeria poster
5.3

After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.

Their Algeria

2021

The Tower poster
7.1

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

The Tower

2018

A Place to Heal poster
NR

In a French public hospital, the adolescent psychiatry unit moves to the erratic rhythm of teenagers coming and going - many carrying heavy past baggage - while Etienne and his medical team navigate the relentless cycle of treating, listening, and confronting the raw edges of suffering. Young Lucia knows the ward too well. After being brought back yet again by the police, she reunites with her friend Eloïse and encounters a constellation of young patients, each wrestling with their own storms. At times, there is laughter, small breakthroughs, moments of fragile hope. But the balance is shaky, and the arrival of a new patient will shatter it entirely.

A Place to Heal

2026

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

Colours of Time poster
7.3

When four distant cousins inherit a 19th-century home in Normandy, they decide to visit and examine their family history. No one has lived there since the 1940s, and the cousins are intrigued by all of the items they find there, little things that help them to understand their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard. Jumping back and forth in time, they meet the mysterious Adèle, whose bohemian lifestyle, and her relationships with the leading artists of the time, changes their lives.

Colours of Time

2025

A Place to Heal poster
NR

In a French public hospital, the adolescent psychiatry unit moves to the erratic rhythm of teenagers coming and going - many carrying heavy past baggage - while Etienne and his medical team navigate the relentless cycle of treating, listening, and confronting the raw edges of suffering. Young Lucia knows the ward too well. After being brought back yet again by the police, she reunites with her friend Eloïse and encounters a constellation of young patients, each wrestling with their own storms. At times, there is laughter, small breakthroughs, moments of fragile hope. But the balance is shaky, and the arrival of a new patient will shatter it entirely.

A Place to Heal

2026

Bye Bye Tiberias poster
7.7

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.

Bye Bye Tiberias

2024

2010s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Their Algeria poster
5.3

After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.

Their Algeria

2021

Their Algeria poster
5.3

After 62 years of marriage, an elderly couple decides to get a divorce.

Their Algeria

2021

Bye Bye Tiberias poster
7.7

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.

Bye Bye Tiberias

2024

Bye Bye Tiberias poster
7.7

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.

Bye Bye Tiberias

2024

No artwork available
NR

After a breakup, Assia joins her Algerian family, who have just opened a restaurant in Spain. What was meant to be a “family vacation” turns into a rescue mission to save a struggling restaurant business…

Alicante

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No artwork available
NR

After a breakup, Assia joins her Algerian family, who have just opened a restaurant in Spain. What was meant to be a “family vacation” turns into a rescue mission to save a struggling restaurant business…

Alicante

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No artwork available
NR

In Paris in 2024, Imane Khelif is catapulted from obscurity into the limelight. The Algerian boxer is the first athlete from Africa to win a gold medal. But her triumph unleashes an unprecedented political and media storm: her status as a woman is challenged, and her body becomes a battleground. Her strength, her physique, her very existence are as divisive as they are unifying. Torn between her thirst to pursue her passion and her anger at being constantly called into question, Imane then embarks on a new fight, taking on the institutions that prevent her from boxing.

Imane Khelif: Still Fighting

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