Baltic Cinema: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza, told through a series of video calls between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

Farsi and Hassona’s digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness to everyday life, loss, and acts of resistance amid escalating violence. But just a day after the film’s selection at Cannes Film Festival this year, Fatma was tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home. Farsi’s film combines raw immediacy with profound humanity to portray the stark realities of daily life during conflict, seen through the eyes of those trapped in an endless cycle of war and living under siege. Devastating and essential in equal measure.

"Farsi’s unfiltered, raw approach mirrors the nature of our own spectatorship. On this side of the screen, we cannot stop Palestinians from starving, from grieving, from dying at the hands of genocidal maniacs. At the same time, it is complete absurdity to not be talking about anything other than Palestine. All we can do is refuse to look away. In bearing witness, we can regard the pain of others as our own." —Marina Ashioti, Little White Lies

Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.

Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.

Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.

Baltic Cinema has five strands:

Currents presents new work from across the world

Sources expands on our exhibitions

Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners

Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children

News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here

All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. In addition, you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week. See full programme of screenings here.

Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.

We want our events to be inclusive and accessible. If you have any accessibility requests or questions, please email [email protected]. Ahead of your visit, you can find out about Baltic's facilities and accessibility here.

Host or Publisher Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art