Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Guests Expected
Director Sepideh Farsi will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Description
Documented over the course of a year, Iranian dissident filmmaker Sepideh Farsi held a series of dialogues with Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona. Captured ineluctably through WhatsApp calls, Fatma speaks of the harrowing circumstances she is living in, while Gaza City is under siege from a barrage of Israeli military airstrikes. What begins as a series of conversations of the day-to-day becomes an illuminating and deeply poetic manifestation of Fatma’s wisdom, exuberance, and unyielding positivity in the face of perpetual bombardment. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk ultimately became a sobering memorial for Fatma and her family, who tragically lost their lives to an airstrike on April 16, 2025, but also remains as a soulful testimony of Fatma’s resilient spirit and profound humanity. – Jordan Klein
Sepideh Farsi is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker currently based in Paris. She left her home country at 18 after having been imprisoned as a dissident by the Iranian government. Her eclectic body of work spans cinematic mediums of documentary, narrative, and animation. Her films have premiered at renowned festivals across the world. Her previous films include Tehran Without Permission (2009) and Red Rose (2014), which have played at Locarno and TIFF respectively. She is currently in development of an “Iranian Western” film project.
Film Details
LanguageEnglish, Arabic
Year2025
Runtime112
CountryFrance, Palestine, Iran
DirectorSepideh Farsi
ProducerJavad Djavahery, Annie Ohayon-Dekel
EditorSepideh Farsi
CinematographerSepideh Farsi
MusicCinna Peyghamy
Print SourceKino Lorber
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions aren’t confirmed for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions aren’t currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation isn’t currently scheduled for this film