Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

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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.

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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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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

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

Rated: 4/4

Nov 24, 2025

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

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

Nov 19, 2025

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

It’s a film about crossing borders; we get to see just a little of what she saw.

Nov 7, 2025

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Put Your Soul On your Hand And Walk is more than one of the best films this year, it is actually one of the most urgent and important.

Rated: 70/100

Nov 29, 2025

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Cris Kennedy

Inner East Review

It's impossible to watch this extended single-take and not feel the loss, and not feel immersed in the tragedy.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 22, 2025

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

While Fatima Hassouna is no longer alive to see it, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a powerful continuation of her desire for people to see the truth.

Nov 21, 2025

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Anthony L

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/19/25

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Heidi B

Not an easy watch, but a meaningful one.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/15/25

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William N

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.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/25/25

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Paul M

I felt like I walked out a different person to the one who walked in. There aren’t many movies that can do that to you. There was only a handful of us in the cinema, and I was the only male, but everyone was reluctant to get up, even after the credits had rolled. Words like surreal and cognitive dissonance don’t do it justice. I noticed that she always wore makeup and addressed the world with a smile. Only on odd occasions did the mask slip. How do you live with death day in and day out over more than a year? How do you cope with that alongside not having the normal essentials, like a safe home, basic food and access to medical facilities.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/25/25

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carole n

The radiance of this human being.... and then her absence. The film will break your heart.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/24/25

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Stephen C

Real footage in 1 hour and 52 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $15,800.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/13/25

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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.

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): $30.2K
Runtime: 1h 52m

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