The Cannes Film Festival announced Wednesday that a documentary about Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna will be screened in her honor following her death in an Israeli airstrike last week.
The film, "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk" by Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, will be shown at ACID Cannes, a section that runs parallel to the festival’s main competition from May 13-24, reports Al Mayadeen.
The documentary captures conversations between Farsi and Hassouna, a 25-year-old Palestinian photographer, as she documented the devastating impact of the Israeli occupation’s war on Gaza. Hassouna was martyred along with 10 of her relatives when their family home in northern Gaza was bombed last Wednesday, just one day after the film’s selection was announced.
In a statement to AFP, the festival said, "The Cannes Film Festival wishes to express its horror and deep sorrow at this tragedy, which has moved and shocked the entire world." The festival added that although a film is "little in the face of such a tragedy," its screening on May 15 will serve as a tribute to Hassouna’s memory, "a victim like so many others of the war."
Before her death, Hassouna wrote on social media, "If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group."
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