Thursday, November 6. At 7 p.m
Filmed through video calls between Iranian director Sepideh Farsi and Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassouna, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” is a direct portrait of daily life in Gaza during the Israeli military invasion and, at the same time, an intimate chronicle of resilience in the face of oppression and violence. Only one day after the film’s selection was announced in the ACID section at Cannes, Fatma was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces. Her voice, honest and firm, reveals both her everyday desires and the extraordinary strength of a young woman living under unimaginable circumstances.
In the director’s words, “the film was my response, as a filmmaker, to the massacre of the Palestinians. My personal way of not losing my mind. A miracle happened when I met Fatma through a Palestinian friend. From that moment, she became my eyes in Gaza, as she survived under the bombs and documented the war. And I became her connection to the outside world, from her prison in Gaza, as she called it. We kept that lifeline for more than two hundred days. Fatma’s murder forever changed the meaning of these images.”
With the presence of Plataforma Del Camp de Tarragona Amb el Poble Palestí.
