Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a film born of helplessness, about helplessness, and it embodies helplessness through its very form. Sepideh Farsi’s documentary began life when the director attempted to enter Gaza not long after Israel launched its 2023 strikes; she told me earlier this year that she originally hoped to tell the story of the war from the Palestinian perspective. Barred from entering, she connected with 24-year-old photographer Fatma Hassona over FaceTime, hoping that she could send pictures and video of the devastation in Gaza. Farsi filmed that first interaction over the phone and soon realized that their conversations could be the basis of her picture.

And they are: Put Your Soul on Your Hand (now playing in New York and expanding in the coming weeks) is bui

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