8.2
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Documentary • 2025 • 113 min
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025)
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025)
Overview
Documentary portrait of life in Gaza through intimate video calls between Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. Unable to enter Gaza herself due to the blockade, Farsi documents Hassouna's daily existence in Northern Gaza via smartphone—her work as an artist, conversations with family, and firsthand accounts of living conditions during the ongoing conflict. A record of friendship and exchange between two women across borders, capturing one person's perspective on survival and resilience.
Starring Cast
Sepideh Farsi • Fatima Hassouna
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Mixed
Islam: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.2
Overview
Documentary portrait of life in Gaza through intimate video calls between Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. Unable to enter Gaza herself due to the blockade, Farsi documents Hassouna's daily existence in Northern Gaza via smartphone—her work as an artist, conversations with family, and firsthand accounts of living conditions during the ongoing conflict. A record of friendship and exchange between two women across borders, capturing one person's perspective on survival and resilience.
Starring Cast
Sepideh Farsi • Fatima Hassouna
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High
The documentary's core focus on Palestinian daily life under Israeli military siege and bombardment, framed through intimate video testimony that highlights civilian suffering and resilience while memorializing a victim of a targeted airstrike, aligns the work with progressive critiques of Israeli policy and the human toll of the conflict.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, denied border entry from her Paris exile and relying on remote video-call access, poses the central question of endurance amid siege through her exchanges with Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. The documentary presents a non-Western cast of Iranian and Palestinian participants without recasting traditional roles. Its narrative frames the Israeli military campaign and occupation through accounts of bombings, displacement, and civilian tolls, placing critique of those structures at the core.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The documentary shows a young Palestinian photojournalist sharing daily hardships with her extended family in a besieged Gaza apartment but frames these details as background to remote conversations on resilience and conflict, without examining family roles, values, or structures.
Islam: Positive
Confidence: High
The film presents Islam through the lived experience of a young Palestinian adherent whose faith sustains optimism and resilience amid siege. Conversations highlight faith as a source of strength and connection to heritage, framed with evident respect and without caricature. The narrative positions this belief as integral to personal dignity and endurance.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary offers no transsexual characters or themes. Sepideh Farsi, working from exile with remote video-call access to her subject, centers the film on a Palestinian photojournalist documenting daily life under siege in Gaza. The central question posed concerns survival, hope, and witness amid conflict.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Sepideh Farsi's video-call documentary grants direct access to Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna amid the Gaza conflict, posing the central question of daily survival under siege. The film presents its real-life subjects in their documented genders with no recast legacy characters from prior sources or adaptations.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
This documentary grants Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi remote video-call access to Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, capturing daily life under siege in Gaza and posing questions of survival, friendship, and witness amid conflict. No fictional characters or recast historical figures appear.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
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7.3
Critic Ratings
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