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Yes! Is Unflinchingly Critical of Israel — Which May Make It Hard to Release
As Cannes takes on the war in Gaza, no other film is as incriminating as Nadav Lapid’s latest.
At the Cannes opening ceremony last week, jury president Juliette Binoche spoke passionately about 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, who in April was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside ten of her family members. Hassona is the subject of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a documentary in the ACID parallel program of this year’s festival about the realities of life in Gaza as told through video calls between her and director Sepideh Farsi. The way for me to talk about it today is to show someone who crawls to slip through the open door before it closes.” Y understands the state’s actions as evil, and says his recently deceased mother would be disgusted by “the occupiers’ tears,” and yet he keeps doing what’s easiest, for the sake of supporting his family and his career.
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