Put your soul on your hand and walk

In April 2024, Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi tries to enter Gaza but is stopped at the border. What begins as a failed journey turns into an extraordinary film when she connects with Fatma “Fatem” Hassona, a young photojournalist from Gaza. Through months of video calls, Fatma becomes Farsi’s eyes and voice in a devastated region.

We see a woman who laughs, mourns, writes, photographs, and continues to dream even as bombs fall. Her photos and their conversations offer a rare, intimate glimpse of daily life under siege: hope alongside fear, creativity alongside destruction. For more than 200 days, the two women stay in touch—until Fatma and her family are killed in an Israeli airstrike, just one day after the film was selected for Cannes.

PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is a portrait as well as a memorial. Is shows Fatma’s resilience, her poetry, and her view on the world, and at the same time changes in a powerful tribute to all voices that were silenced in Gaza. A documentary that is inevitably urgent and deeply human.