{"id":23468,"date":"2025-09-05T06:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=23468"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:49:11","slug":"putyoursoulonyourhandandwalk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/putyoursoulonyourhandandwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK<\/h1>\n

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TRUFFAUT THEATER<\/p>\n

Documentary<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcee2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758582803333{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

MONDAY NOVEMBER 3
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Kino Lorber Films
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\nInternational Documentary Association<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ css=”” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1757808125418{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere <\/span><\/strong>|\u00a0France, Palestine |\u00a02025\u00a0|\u00a0Documentary |\u00a0110\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In English<\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/strong>Sepideh Farsi
\nWritten by: <\/strong>Sepideh Farsi
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Sepideh Farsi (R\u00eaves d’Eau Productions), <\/strong>G\u00e9rard Giraudet & Farid Rezkallah (24Images)
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Sepideh Farsi
\nOriginal Score: <\/strong>Cinna Peyghamy
\nFilm Editing:<\/strong> Farahnaz Sharifi, Sepideh Farsi
\nCast:<\/strong> Sepideh Farsi, Fatma Hassona
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>Cercamon
\nUS Distributor:<\/strong> Kino Lorber
\nUS Release date:<\/strong> November 5, 2025<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Denied entrance into Rafah to film the war in Gaza, director Sepideh Farsi<\/strong> is introduced to Fatma Hassona<\/strong>, a 24-year-old aspiring photojournalist living in Gaza. Thus begins a year-long series of video calls between an Iranian filmmaker in Paris, and a radiant, talented, astonishingly optimistic young woman simply trying to live her life as the bombs fall all around her. Tragically, just one day after the announcement that Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk<\/em><\/strong> was selected for Cannes, Fatma and six members of her family were killed in an Israeli strike on their home. More than just a subject, Fatma was a veritable collaborator on this film, her luminous, soulful photographs recounting the day-to-day reality of this war-without-end and rendering her loss all the more painful.<\/p>\n

Director’s biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Tehran, Sepideh Farsi<\/strong> started photographing political protests at a young age before discovering the cinema at 16. That same year, she was arrested and spent nearly a year in prison. Upon her release, she was forced to leave the country to pursue her studies in Paris. After studying math, she began making art videos and award-winning documentaries and narrative features screened in Locarno, Rotterdam and Toronto. Her films include Tehran Without Permission (2009), Red Rose (2014), 7 Voiles (2017), and I Will Cross Tomorrow (2023). The Siren, an animated anti-war manifesto, was the opening film of the Panorama section at the 2023 Berlinale. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk<\/strong> premiered in this year’s Cannes’ ACID sidebar.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-28-at-10.07.49.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/win-a-cruise-for-two-in-europe\/” target=”_blank” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/putyoursoul.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center” margin_bottom=”10″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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