Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
A devastating digital correspondence becomes an intimate record of Palestinian life, witness, and loss under bombardment in Gaza.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- harrowing
- intimate
- mournful
- serious viewing
- human rights film programming
What critics said
Critics broadly praise the film's urgent firsthand testimony, intimate filmmaker subject relationship, and forceful documentation of civilian life under bombardment.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film follows more than 200 days of digital exchanges between Sepideh Farsi and Fatima Hassouna.
Fatima documents daily life in Gaza under bombardment, making her own recorded perspective the film's central evidence.
Fatima continues documenting life during attacks, while the meaning of the exchanges changes after her death.
The relationship and testimony are conveyed through digital exchanges across the distance between Gaza and the filmmaker.
Films like Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, and why
5 Broken Cameras
intimate documentary testimony shaped by Palestinian civilian experience, political violence, and the ethics of witnessing
The Wanted 18
firsthand Palestinian perspective, occupation-focused testimony, and urgent documentary realism
For Sama
harrowing war-zone documentary centered on civilian survival and personal testimony
Movie Details
- Director
- Sepideh Farsi
- Release Date
- 2025-08-22
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 (30)
Cast
- Fatima Hassouna
- Sepideh Farsi
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Kino Film Collection
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk about?
- A devastating digital correspondence becomes an intimate record of Palestinian life, witness, and loss under bombardment in Gaza.
- What is Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk as measured, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk as graphic.
- What did critics think of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk?
- Critics broadly praise the film's urgent firsthand testimony, intimate filmmaker subject relationship, and forceful documentation of civilian life under bombardment.
- Which films are like Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk?
- Films with a similar feel include 5 Broken Cameras, The Wanted 18, and For Sama.
- How long is Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk?
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk runs 113 minutes.
- Where can I watch Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk?
- In United States, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk streams on Kino Film Collection.
