Sepideh Farsi, director of the portrait of a photojournalist killed in Gaza: "Fatma wanted to come to Cannes"
The filmmaker presents the documentary "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk" at the Cannes Film Festival, a conversation with the Gazan photojournalist Fatma Hassouna, who was killed the day after the film's selection, on April 16, by an Israeli missile launched at her family home.
By Catherine BalleWhen she went on stage to present her film, the title resonated deeply with her. "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk"... This phrase was said to her one day by Fatma Hassouna , the heroine of the documentary directed by Sepideh Farsi.
This Gazan photojournalist summed up her "mission" thus: despite the danger, she went out into Gaza to film and photograph the massacres of the war. This Thursday, May 15, Sepideh Farsi will have a very heavy heart, but she will walk with her family in mind, thinking of Fatma, killed by a missile strike on April 16 at 1 a.m.
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