Benefit screening Gaza – Pre-premiere Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
A special benefit screening of the highly urgent documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, which offers a powerful look at daily life in the Gaza Strip. All ticket proceeds will go towards humanitarian aid in Gaza.
On Tuesday evening, 2 September, Lumière Cinema Maastricht is hosting a special benefit screening of the film Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, in collaboration with Oxfam Novib and film distributor Imagine. The full proceeds will be donated to Oxfam Novib in support of their vital work in Gaza.
Mirte Bosch, Conflict and Humanitarian Policy Advisor at Oxfam Novib, will give a brief introduction.
The film will be showing regularly at Lumière Maastricht from Thursday 4 September. The screening on 2 September is therefore an advance screening.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk - English subtitled
A poignant documentary about daily life in the Gaza Strip, told through the work of photojournalist Fatma Hassona, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike shortly before the world premiere of this film in Cannes.
When Iranian film director Sepideh Farsi tries to travel to the Gaza Strip in April 2024, she is denied entry at the border. Her plan to document life under Israeli siege seems to fall apart. However, she then comes into contact with Fatma ‘Fatem’ Hassona, a young, talented photojournalist from Gaza City. She becomes her eyes in the devastated area.
Through video calls, the two women discuss the young photographer's life: her admirable vitality, her hopes, her fears and her sadness. From Fatma's home, a rare human perspective on an inhuman existence unfolds. At the same time, she continues to report on the bombings and destruction. The women stay in touch for more than 200 days, until Fatma and her family are killed in an Israeli air strike – one day after the film's selection for the Cannes Film Festival was announced.