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Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk + The Deir Yassin, Jerusalem, Massacre of Women and Children

  • Stony Brook University - Wang Center Main Theater 100 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, NY, 11794 United States (map)

Part of the 2026 Palestine Film Festival

Monday April 27

Location: Wang Center Main Theater

Morning Session: Start Time 11am (total running time approx. 2 hours)

1. The Deir Yassin, Jerusalem, Massacre of Women and Children (2002)

On April 9, 1948, the small Palestinian village of Deir Yassin just outside Jerusalem was attacked by Zionist militia, and 100 unarmed civilians massacred. With powerful archive footage from the siege itself, we relive the terror which has inspired Palestinian suicide attacks ever since.

2. Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk (2025) dir. Sepideh Farsi

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film captures daily life during the conflict through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, famine, and resistance. Her conversations with Farsi bring us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document that now stands as a heartfelt memorial and final testament: Fatma and her family were tragically killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on April 16, one day after the film was announced as a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

***THIS IS A FREE EVENT DONATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED**

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