Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Difficult to watch on several levels, nevertheless Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an important, profound documentary. For in it, from April 2024 through April 2025 via an internet occasionally interrupted, Sepideh and 25-year-old Palestinian Fatem Hassona talk about Fatem’s circumstances, what she sees and hears in her Al Tuffah neighborhood in northeastern Gaza City. Always smiling, Fatem reports on ten people living in one room, bombs exploding in front of her, the appalling destruction in her neighborhood, the 13 family members she’s lost, and her enduring desire for a simple, normal life which will be cut short.