Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025)
- Fri, Nov 28
Director: Sepideh Farsi Run Time: 113 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Fatima Hassouna, Sepideh Farsi
Country: France, Palestinian Territories, Iran
Language: English, Arabic
About the film:
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film captures daily life during the conflict through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, famine, and resistance. Her conversations with Farsi bring us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document that now stands as a heartfelt memorial and final testament: Fatma and her family were tragically killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on April 16, one day after the film was announced as a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
About the filmmaker:
Sepideh Farsi is a Tehran-born, Paris/Athens-based Iranian filmmaker whose work explores Iran, exile, and resistance; her animated feature The Siren (La Sirène) opened the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2023, following acclaimed films such as the clandestinely shot documentary Tehran Without Permission (2009) and the drama The House Under the Water (2010).
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