Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 5, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonNov 5, 2025
Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” is not simply a documentary, but a poignant individual’s record. It is a reminder that every number we see on the news is a complex web of individuality. It’s historical sonder on screen. Read full review
100
Original-CinLiam LaceyNov 5, 2025
Both a film and an obituary, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, is a dark, unique document of the Gaza war focusing on a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet, Fatma Hassona (sometimes spelled Fatima Hassouna). Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 18, 2025
What’s quietly miraculous about Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, considering its added tragic weight, is what the force of Hassona’s personality and Farsi’s filmmaking choices still manage to do: speak to what’s ineffably beautiful about our human capacity for hope and connection. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonNov 7, 2025
Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk is not just a document of a life and a hope extinguished. It is also the best way to hear from Hassouna. And it’s a film about crossing borders; we get to see just a little of what she saw. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyDec 8, 2025
Farsi hasn’t made a rhetorical film of persuasion—anyone who needs a name and a face to be moved by reports of killings is beyond persuading—but a personal memorial for a friend and a public archive of that friend’s work. Read full review
80
Screen RantGregory NussenNov 14, 2025
This uncommon image of survival accentuates the devastation of loss. Fatma is just one victim; what other worlds have we lost with each new death? Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 7, 2025
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a film born of helplessness, about helplessness, and it embodies helplessness through its very form. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterNov 3, 2025
Farsi’s film now stands as a powerful memorial to someone who was both ordinary and extraordinary. Read full review
80
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaNov 3, 2025
Hassona is both fashionable and immensely talented (she shares her Arabic poems and songs with Farsi), and the more we see of her over the movie’s 110 minutes, the more devastating it becomes that we will never meet her, or never truly get to know her. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureTom O’BrienOct 7, 2025
Director Sepideh Farsi's startling documentary utilizes WhatsApp video chats with a young Palestinian artist living in Gaza to provide a powerful snapshot of how the deadly war is decimating lives across her country. Read full review
80
The GuardianLeslie FelperinAug 20, 2025
It’s the audacious austerity of Farsi’s film-making that really makes the material sing. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerNov 3, 2025
What’s most striking about Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, whose title is how Hassona describes venturing outdoors when she can be killed at any moment, is the way it forces the viewer to experience the blunt repetition of death and devastation faced by its central figure. Read full review
70
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiAug 22, 2025
All we can do is refuse to look away. In bearing witness, we can regard the pain of others as our own. Read full review
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