Earlier this year, at the Cannes Film Festival, we interviewed Sepideh Farsi on her heart-wrenching documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which charts the Iranian filmmaker’s correspondence with Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona as she documented and endured Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Hassona and her family were later targeted and killed at their Gaza home by the IDF only a day after Farsi informed her the film would be premiering at the festival.
As Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which we described as one of the most urgent films of the year, approaches its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on 19th August and UK and Irish release in cinemas on 22nd August, Farsi provides us a personal list of recommended reading on Palestine.
