Overview
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk opens September 24 in roughly 100 French cinemas, with distributor New Story having staged about 120 advance screenings.
- The film is built from short, frequently cut-off smartphone exchanges over more than 200 days between director Sepideh Farsi and Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassouna.
- Hassouna was killed on April 16, 2025, in an Israeli strike that hit her home, with six family members also reported dead, shortly after the film’s selection at Cannes (ACID).
- After Cannes, the documentary screened at Venice, Toronto, Busan, and other events, with releases planned in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United States, Australia, and Japan.
- Farsi alleges Hassouna was specifically targeted and urges greater mobilization from the film community; the articles provide no independent confirmation of deliberate targeting.