The subject of filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s upcoming Kanes Documentary “Put your soul on your hand and go” Palestinian artist and photojournalist Fatma Hassona, like her family, has been allegedly killed during an Israeli missile strike on her building in Gaza. Set to be presented as part of Cannes parallel sectional acid, driven by France’s Association for diffusion of Independent cinema (L’Acid), The film Follows Hassona as she captures the atrocities committed in her home country through her camera, and helps those who mourn enormous loss.
In an edition that was shared with IndieWire, the filmmakers said behind the project, as well as members of the Acid team about Hassona, “her smile was as magical as her endurance: To witness, photograph Gaza, distribute food despite the bombs, grief and hunger. We heard her story, we were fearing her.
Farsi shared the unfortunate news about Hassona’s death through the French publication Libération, where she wrote: “She had just turned 25. I got to know her through a Palestinian friend in Cairo, while I was desperately looking for a way to reach Gaza, while they are, while they are, they seek the answers on a question both.
The Iranian filmmaker noticed Israel’s action that in line with “genocide” and put the sign not only on its governing bodies, but all the international “employees” involved in supporting what she sees as a campaign for terror against the Palestinian people. Farsi also shared an excerpt from one of Hassona’s poem, entitled “The Man Who Wewe the Eyes”, which reflects the overwhelming presence of death she met, as well as fullness in her life. Read it below.
I might start my death
Now
Before the person standing in front of me is charged
His elite shooter rifle
And it ends
And I quit.
Silent.
