INTERNATIONAL CINEMA: PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK
We continue with our series of International Cinema, where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk is an urgent portrait of a talented photojournalist in Gaza City. A young woman who laughs, grieves, loves, and keeps dreaming in the midst of war – and who, after the completion of this documentary, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
When Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s attempt to enter Gaza in April 2024 fails, she begins video calls with young photojournalist Fatma “Fatem” Hassona from Gaza City, who becomes her eyes in the besieged territory. Through their intimate conversations, Fatma shares her daily life—her vitality, hopes, fears, and grief—while documenting the destruction and bombings around her. For more than 200 days they stay in contact, until Fatma and her family are killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 16, 2025, just one day after the film’s selection for Cannes was announced. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk thus becomes an urgent and moving portrait, combining raw immediacy with Fatma’s striking visual records. Her voice and images now stand as a powerful tribute to all lives under fire.
