Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

2025

1h 52m

Documentary

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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 director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film captures daily life during the conflict through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, famine, and resistance. Her conversations with Farsi bring us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document that now stands as a heartfelt memorial and final testament: Fatma and her family were tragically killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on April 16, one day after the film was announced as a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

Critics Consensus

Finding moments of joy and levity even under dire circumstances thanks to its endlessly compelling subject, Fatma Hassona, this documentary helps put a deeply human face on a wide scale tragedy.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Dec 9

Farsi hasn’t made a rhetorical film of persuasion -- anyone who needs a name and a face to be moved by reports of killings is beyond persuading -- but a personal memorial for a friend and a public archive of that friend’s work.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Nov 24

4/4

Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, it is one of the best movies of the year, despite being made on a shoestring budget under challenging circumstances.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Nov 19

You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Feb 13

The film, more of a search for something uncertain than a fully formed thesis (as, in fact, most documentaries should be), possesses a human expressiveness that overshadows the simplicity of the images with its powerful emotions. [Full review in Spanish]

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Jan 22

4/5

The film doesn’t answer every common question that people have in this situation, but it does provide some context.

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

Jan 19

4/4

Fatima lives with her family in a small apartment in one of the most devastated areas of northern Gaza Access to basic necessities such as food, water and electricity is highly unreliable; over time, shortages worsen and Fatima … "eating like animals"

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Anthony L

Nov 19

The directors questioning left the lot to be desired. Using a phone to record her video calls instead of just screen recording. That being said, heartbreaking. To watch her say her dream is to travel the world to then less than a year later here biggest dream was to taste chicken and chocolate again.

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Heidi B

Nov 15

Not an easy watch, but a meaningful one.

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Steve B

@Film_Man Feb 26

Watching Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a harrowing exercise in heartbreak. We see Fatma Hassona not as a statistic, but as a young woman whose smile is a source of pure, uplifting joy. Her desires are agonisingly simple, to walk in nature or to taste a single piece of chocolate.Yet we watch that optimism erode under the agonising weight of forced starvation and the dwindling access to clean water. This is not just the collateral damage of war; it is the systematic destruction of every building, an attempt to erase the very existence and memory of the Palestinian people from their land. To witness her light dim before the murder of her and her entire family is to confront the most brutal question of our time: what sort of world allow such beautiful vibrant innocent souls to be killed?

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Marisca M

@Tatjana Feb 9

This film is an absolute must-see. It gives a complete insight into the lives of people in Gaza fading away bit by bit and body by body in the wake of a genocide.

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Adam S

@Conceaniese Jan 3

Only the SOUL-LESS would enjoy it

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William N

@William125 Nov 25

Movie sucked and it was so boring. If the intent was to make me feel sympathy for Hamas and what they did to its people and the people of Israel, well that message was not conveyed to me. Otherwise this was a terribel movie with a terrible message.

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Synopsis

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 director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film captures daily life during the conflict through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, famine, and resistance. Her conversations with Farsi bring us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document that now stands as a heartfelt memorial and final testament: Fatma and her family were tragically killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on April 16, one day after the film was announced as a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

Director: Sepideh Farsi, Fatma Hassona
Producer: Sepideh Farsi
Screenwriter: Sepideh Farsi
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Rêves d’eau Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 5, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 16, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.2K
Runtime: 1h 52m

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