london palestine film festival 2025
NOVEMBER 14 - 28
PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK
SEPIDEH FARSI, 2025, 113’
WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER | 20:45
ICA, THE MALL, ST. JAMES'S, SW1Y 5AH
A haunting testament to the resilience of daily life under siege in Gaza. Captured through a filmmaker's video calls with a Palestinian photojournalist, these calls are a powerful digital lifeline to the realities of war, resistance and survival.
Told through a series of video calls between Sepideh Farsi and the young Palestinian photojournalist, Fatma Hassona, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza. Their digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness to everyday life, loss and acts of resistance amid escalating violence. Just a day after the film’s selection at Cannes, Fatma was tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home. This heartbreaking loss deepens the film’s impact, which combines raw immediacy with profound humanity to reveal the stark realities faced by those trapped in an endless cycle of war and living under siege.