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Cannes Expresses “Profound Sadness” At Death Of Gaza Photojournalist Fatima Hassouna
Cannes Expresses “Profound Sadness” At Death Of Gaza Photojournalist
The Cannes Film Festival has expressed “profound sadness” over the death in an Israeli airstrike of Palestinian artist and photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who is the subject of a documentary invited to the parallel ACID section this year. Hassouna, who had gained recognition for her photojournalism capturing the impact on the Gaza Strip’s civilian population of the Israeli military campaign, appears in French-Iranian director Sepideh Farsi ’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk. The film will play in the parallel ACID sidebar, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema, on April 15.
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