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 Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and 24-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona over the course of 2024. Their digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness to everyday life, loss, and acts of resistance amid escalating violence. Just one day after the film’s selection to the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival, Fatma was tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home. This heartbreaking loss deepens the film’s impact, which combines raw immediacy with profound humanity, portraying daily life during the conflict through the eyes of a generation caught in a seemingly endless cycle of war.

Notes by David O’Mahony.