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Fatima Hassouna: The Journalist Who Became the Story

Watan 20 Apr 2025
The film, titled “Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk”, was directed by Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, and was based on recorded interviews and footage with Fatima, capturing the suffering of Gaza and the brutality of the occupation.
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‘I Refused to Accept Her Death’

New York Magazine 19 Apr 2025
Director Sepideh Farsi on the shock of losing Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian subject of her film, in an Israeli missile strike just weeks before its Cannes premiere ... The film world was shocked ...
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Gaza photojournalist who wrote, ‘If I die, I want a resounding death’ killed in Israeli airstrike

CNN 19 Apr 2025
She was featured in Sepideh Farsi’s documentary film, Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, which has been selected to be screened in the ACID section at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in May 2025.
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Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed in Israeli Strike

Scheerpost 19 Apr 2025
Director Sepideh Farsi remembers Hassona for her talent, integrity and hope. “I can’t tell you how devastated I am,” says Farsi ... We’re joined now by the film’s director, Sepideh Farsi, award-winning Iranian filmmaker, who’s speaking to us from Paris.
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Gaza photojournalist, who wished her death not be buried by time, killed in Israeli strike

Madhyamam 19 Apr 2025
Just a day before the attack, it had been announced that a documentary titled Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, directed by Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, would premiere at the Cannes Acid film festival in May.
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Photojournalist Fatma Hassona, Subject of an Upcoming Documentary, Killed in Gaza

Time Magazine 18 Apr 2025
Farsi—whose film credits include the Siren and Red Rose—was in the middle of figuring out how to arrange Hassona’s travel to the film festival.
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Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, protagonist of Cannes-selected doc, killed in Israeli airstrike

Dawn 18 Apr 2025
The strike targeted their home in Gaza City just a day after the documentary was announced as part of the prestigious Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (ACID) sidebar at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, reported Deadline.
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

AOL 18 Apr 2025
Made by Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, the film, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, tells the story of Gaza’s ordeal and the daily life of Palestinians through filmed video conversations between Hassouna and Farsi.
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Palestinian Photojournalist Fatma Hassona Killed with Family in Israeli Attack

Democracy Now 18 Apr 2025
... month at the Cannes Film Festival. We’ll speak with the director of that documentary, Sepideh Farsi, later in the broadcast.Topics..
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Fatma Hassona, Palestinian Protagonist of Cannes-Bound Film, Killed in Missile Strike

New York Magazine 17 Apr 2025
When their film’s selection was announced, Farsi invited Hassona to Cannes with her, the latter agreeing so long as she could return to Gaza once it was over ... “I filmed, catching the moments offered by ...
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Palestinian journalist and star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike

NME 17 Apr 2025
“We had watched and programmed a film in which this young woman’s life force seemed like a miracle ... Explaining that she couldn’t find the answer in the news or media, and unable to travel to Gaza, Farsi filmed her conversations with Hassona.
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Fatma Hassona, Palestinian Subject of Forthcoming Cannes Documentary, Killed by Israeli Missile Strike

The Wrap 17 Apr 2025
“We, filmmakers and members of the ACID team, met Fatma Hassona when we discovered Sepideh Farsi’s film ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ during the Cannes program,” ...
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Cannes ACID section responds to death of Fatma Hassona, subject of 2025 film selection, in Gaza by Israeli missile

Screen Daily 17 Apr 2025
She died, reportedly alongside nine members of her family, on the morning of Wednesday, April 16 - the day after Farsi’s film was selected for the Cannes ACID section.
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How Universal Language Found Poetry in Meaningless Spaces

New York Magazine 17 Apr 2025
There are posters of Canadian politicians in public places, Iranian food vendors roaming the streets, and Farsi-speaking children struggling to learn French ... The film’s title in Farsi is Avaz e’Buqalamun, which means Song of the Turkey.
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Matthew Rankin working on films about Progressive Conservatives, Esperanto

North Shore News 05 Apr 2025
Universal Language" director Matthew Rankin says he's channelling his creative energy into two new films ... Rankin says he began filming "Congresso" at 2022’s World Esperanto Congress convention, which took place in Montreal.
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