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‘I Refused to Accept Her Death’
Director Sepideh Farsi on the shock of losing the Palestinian subject of her film in an Israeli attack just weeks before it would premiere at Cannes.
Will you allow me?’” Neither the director nor her subject knew what to expect, but over the course of their first hourlong video chat, with a precarious internet connection cutting in and out, an idea emerged: to build a film out of their talks. Many of these can still be seen on her Instagram page: Scroll back to 2023 and earlier and you will find images of weddings, graduations, sunsets, children playing in the street, fishermen mending nets, large crowds watching the World Cup. When Farsi informed her subject and friend that Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk would premiere at Cannes, she hoped that the young woman would travel to France to be present at the screening; Fatem would agree to it only if she could return to Gaza afterward.
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