Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Documentary)

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Director: Sepideh Farsi
Producer: Javad Djavahery,Annie Dekel-Ohayon
Cinematographer: Sepideh Farsi
Composer: Cinna Peyghamy
Editor: Farahnaz Sharifi,Sepideh Farsi

An inspiring portrait of Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, whose defiant images of life in Gaza bring both hope and tragic consequences.

Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old photojournalist and poet from the Gaza Strip, dedicated her life to documenting the conditions in which Palestinians are forced to exist. In this documentary, beautifully and movingly pieced together from video calls between her and Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi recorded throughout 2024 as Israel’s war on Gaza raged, Hassona builds a visual diary conveying the everyday plight of her people and the suffering being inflicted upon displaced and orphaned children. Even amid the death and destruction of constant missile strikes, her message remains one of dignity, humanity and hope.

On 16 April 2025, the day after it was announced the film was going to premiere at Cannes, an Israeli missile killed Hassona and her family in what was alleged to have been a targeted assassination. In paying tribute to Hassona’s memory and reminding us not to look away from the injustices of the world, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is more than just a powerful work of cinema – it’s a documentary that demands to be witnessed.

“A film with similarities to the Oscar-winning No Other Land in how it brings an individual perspective to unimaginable events … Farsi’s film now stands as a powerful memorial to someone who was both ordinary and extraordinary.” – Screen Daily