With her Gaza documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk , director Sepideh Farsi turned a year of shaky video calls into a searing, immediate portrait of life under bombardment — and an elegy for her on-screen collaborator, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 16, 2025, a day after the film’s Cannes selection was announced. Premiering May 15 in Cannes’ ACID sidebar, the France– Palestine –Iran co-production traces Farsi’s efforts to get closer to the conflict when borders made reporting impossible, and finds a singular, resilient voice in Hassona’s daily dispatches from Gaza.

With her Gaza documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk , director Sepideh Farsi turned a year of shaky video calls into a searing, imme

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