PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK

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 ongoing war on Gaza through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, starvation, 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 to Fatma’s life and art.

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Kino Lorber is proud to present Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a powerful document of life in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli military invasion. An official selection of Cannes ACID, TIFF, and NYFF, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk opens theatrically November 5 at the IFC Center in New York and expands to Los Angeles and other cities November 14.

“Subtle and shattering…the fact that Hassona feels so indomitable, so alive, says all you need to know about the cynical and cowardly killing before more of the world met her.”

– Nicolas Rapold, Documentary Magazine

“More than a record of someone’s life during the course of a brutal military siege…Hassona comes alive not just as a photographer but as a witness to life insisting itself into being. In her eyes, and in her lens, you feel resilience not as heroism, but as a relentless survival.”

– Noel Ransome, WIRED

“The film proves stirring in its capacity for hope against all odds, while also placing on full display the cost of occupation, portraying the full extent of the lives and dreams dashed by war.”

– Siddhant Adlakha, Variety

A film by Sepideh Farsi

Featuring Fatma Hassona

About Sepideh Farsi

Iranian director Sepideh Farsi experienced the revolution at 13, was imprisoned at 16 as a dissident, and left her native Iran at 18. Based in Paris since then, she has studied mathematics, taken photos, and made some fifteen films — documentaries, fiction, and animation — among which Tehran Without Authorization (Locarno), Red Rose (TIFF), and The Siren, a feature animation that deals with the Iran- Iraq war, which was the opening film of Berlinale Panorama and has won numerous awards since.

She is currently working on +50°, an Iranian Western film project, and also developing an animation project inspired by her life, called Memoirs of an Undutiful Girl, all the while fighting for the instauration of democracy in Iran.