Fatima Hassouna speaks with Gaza's suffering at the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to Palestinian photographer Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, after a film about her was selected to participate in the festival.

Fatima Hassouna is present in Cannes Fatima was killed on April 16th after an Israeli bombardment hit her home in the Gaza Strip. The bombing killed all of her family members except for her mother. This happened after she learned that the documentary “Put Your Soul in the Palm of Your Hand and Walk” had been selected to participate in the “ACID” category, one of the parallel sections of the festival, which Hassouna had dreamed of attending.

Film director's speech The film's director, Zubideh Farsi, paid tribute to the spirit of the young photographer who recounted to her via video calls details of life in Gaza. She wrote, "I demand justice for Fatima and all innocent Palestinians who perished."

Demands to stop the genocide in Gaza British director Ken Loach, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice, said on the X platform: "Honoring this brave young woman, and also her fellow Palestinian journalists who sacrificed their lives to bear witness to the mass slaughter" in Gaza, and putting an end to "war crimes" and "genocide."

During the festival's opening, more than 380 artists and celebrities, including Pedro Almodóvar, Susan Sarandon, and Richard Gere, issued an open letter calling for breaking the silence in the face of the "genocide" in Gaza. International NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, say Israel is committing acts of "genocide" in Gaza, an accusation rejected by the Israeli state, which describes the accusations as "baseless lies."

"Fatima should have been with us tonight," said French actress Juliette Binoche, president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, during the opening ceremony, also speaking about the "hostages of October 7, 2023," while pins in the colors of the Palestinian flag and yellow ribbons in support of the hostages in Gaza appeared on the red carpet.

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The movie's story It is noteworthy that the film “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” revolves around video conversations between the French-Iranian director Sepideh Farsi and Hassouna. These conversations began when the director contacted the young woman while searching for an in-depth documentary film that addresses the current events in Gaza.