Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photojournalist who is the Documentary Protagonist of Sepideh Farsi Put your soul on your hand and walk, was killed by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza. She was 25 years old.
Put your soul on your hand and walk should be deprived as part of the acid (Association of independent cinema for broadcast SA), a parallel section promoting the independent film at the Cannes festival next month.
In a declaration at The independentThe acid organizers said: “We, filmmakers and members of the acid team, met Fatma Hassona when we discovered the film of Sepideh Farsi Put your soul on your hand and walk During the Cannes program.
“Her smile was as magical as her tenacity: to wear a witness, to photograph Gaza, to distribute food despite the bombs, mourning and hunger. We have heard its story, we have rejoiced in each of its appearances to see her alive, we fear for her. Yesterday we were shocked to learn that an Israeli missile had targeted his building, killing Fatem and his family.
“We had watched and programmed a film in which the vital force of this young woman seemed to be a miracle. It is no longer the same film that we are going to support and present in all theaters, starting with Cannes. We all, filmmakers and spectators, must be worthy of her light.”
In an additional declaration, Farsi described how to make contact with Hassona had been invaluable for the documentary of the Iranian filmmaker on Gaza.
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“I got to know her through a Palestinian friend in Cairo, while I was desperately looking for a way to reach Gaza, while touching blocked roads, looking for the answer to a simple and complex question,” said Farsi.
“How do you survive Gaza, sub-section during all these years?” What is the daily life of the Palestinians under war? What does Israel want to erase in this handful of square kilometers, with so many bombs and missiles?
“Me, who had just finished a film, The sirenOn another war, that between Iraq and Iran. Me, who could still feel the distant echo of the shock waves of the explosion that sounds in my ears and the dust on the back of my throat, of my Iranian teenager. I wanted to know how the Gazans resist all this, what they were going through … I could not find the answer in the news and the media. I wanted to hear their words without intermediary. I wanted to be in Gaza. Something that my French passport “born in Iran” made inconceivable for the Egyptian administration and the Israeli occupation.
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“From our first conversation, I caught my camera and started to film: our exchanges, Fatem and I, which was going on around her, asking her to bring me to the window, whether from her house or her refuge, according to Gaza, and I, a window open to the world. Priery and full of life.
The war, now in its 18th month, began when the activists led by Hamas burst into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. The group still has 59 captives – 24 of which are supposed to be alive.
The Israelle reprisal offensive in the territory killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
