Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
First screened in November 2025
Director: Sepideh Farsi. Documentary of Zoom-based exchanges between the filmmaker and a young aspiring photographer in Gaza, living through the escalating war from 2024 to 2025.
In Brief:
A record of human connection and endurance, limned with class disparity and ominous destiny.
VOR:④
Not much aesthetic or technical novelty here, but the directness of Farsi's approach brings a potent face and voice to an outsized global calamity.
Grade:A–
Awards:
Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo (Best Documentary)
