Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Sepideh Farsi, an exiled Iranian filmmaker based in Paris, begins a remote exchange with Fatma Hassouna, a young Palestinian photojournalist. Their only link is through video calls—the fragile thread connecting two worlds. Fatima shares her besieged daily life, her photographs, and her unwavering hope; each network outage triggers panic, while each reconnection brings warmth and relief. From these exchanges, Sepideh Farsi crafts an epistolary documentary that is stunningly poignant—offering a raw, visceral experience of war. The day after Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk was selected for Cannes, Fatima Hassouna was killed, along with her family, in an Israeli airstrike. What remains is this sensitive and harrowing dialogue—a truly essential film, a rare embodiment of cinema in the immediate present. (Festival du nouveau cinéma)