You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director for Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk.

Sepada Farsi.

Where are you now, your position?

This is my neighborhood.

No one live here or here or there. There's no one.

When the war started on October 7th, I started filming Palestinian refugees who were just

arriving from Gaza. Through one of them, I came to know Fottom.

I am a photographer. Yes, I saw. I saw your photos. This is my world.

I find my face.

I am trying to find some life in this floor, in this dead.

Every second you walk in the street, you put your soul on your hands and walk.

Hello, everyone, welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast where I'm being joined right now

by the director for the documentary film, put your soul on your hand and walk.

Sepeda Farsi.

Thank you so much for joining us here today to talk about this really extraordinary film.

Thank you, Matthew.

So the movie has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and this clearly should have been a joyous, really wonderful moment for you all.

But unfortunately, tragedy struck, and now what you had set out to tell as far as this film's original conceit, if you will, has now become something entirely different in the post-release.

So I want to touch upon that, but I do want to also kind of go back to the very beginning.

Let's start with what made you choose the format of the year-long video call exchanges to tell this documentary film as opposed to, say, a more traditional format?

Well, what set me up on this quest, let's say, was a feeling of discrepancy in the media narrative, and that

was the absence of the Palestinian voices. I was back then, like now, traveling with another

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