Directed by Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, the award-winning documentary feature film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a first-hand account of life under siege in Gaza, told through video calls between Farsi and murdered Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
The film premiered at ACID Cannes Film Festival, and has since played at the Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Busan, New York and other film festivals.
Kino Lorber will release the film in theaters starting with in New York on November 5 exclusively at IFC Center; then in Los Angeles on November 14 at Laemmle Monica and Laemmle Glendale; and in Chicago on November 21 at Gene Siskel Film Center. National rollout will continue throughout the year.
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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. The conversation between these two journalists brings us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza.
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.
In a statement on ACID (Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinem) film festival’s website, filmmaker Farsi said, “Put your soul on your hand and walk was my response as a filmmaker, to the ongoing massacre of he Palestinians. My personal way not to lose my sanity. A miracle happened when I met Fatem through a Palestinian friend. Ever since, she became my eyes in Gaza, while surviving under the bombs and documenting the war. And I, became her connection to the outside world, from her Gaza prison, as she puts it. We kept this line of life going for more than 200 days. The bits of pixels and sounds that we exchanged constitute the film that you see. Fatem’s assasination on April 16, 2025, following an Israeli attack on her home has forever changed its meaning.”
Watch the official trailer for Put Your Soul on Your Hand above.
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