West Norwood 4 Palestine Free Film Festival Screening 4: 'Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk'

Join us for Night 4 of our Free Palestine Film Festival in West Norwood at The Portico. 

Our fourth film is Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (2025), which got its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. 

A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment. Their 200+ days of digital exchanges shifts meaning after Fatem's death in an Israeli attack on 16th April 2025. Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk is a response of Sepideh Farsi as a filmmaker, to the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. The personal way not to lose her sanity. A miracle happened when she met Fatem through a Palestinian friend. Ever since, she became her eyes in Gaza, while surviving under the bombs and documenting the war. And Sepideh Farsi became her connection to the outside world, from her Gaza prison, as Fatima Hassouna puts it. They kept this line of life going for more than 200 days. The bits of pixels and sounds that they exchanged constitute the film that we see. Fatem's assassination on April 16, 2025, following an Israeli attack on her home has forever changed its meaning.

This film is rated 12A, and contains upsetting scenes. 

Palestinian vendors and food will be available for purchase beforehand, as well as a selection of drinks from the Portico bar. 

6.15pm Doors Open 

7.00pm Film Screening & Q&A 

The Portico is a fully accessible venue. If you have any accessibility requirements, please reach out and let us know as soon as possible. 

More information will be sent to all those who have signed up prior to the screening. 

Any profits, once all film festival costs have been covered, will be split between our chosen Palestinian organisations (guided by the artists involved) and West Norwood 4 Palestine.