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**Headline: Cannes Film Festival Honors Slain Gaza Photojournalist Fatma Hassona Amidst Conflict**

**Paris, France – May 16, 2025** – The Cannes Film Festival is grappling with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most poignantly through the posthumous presence of Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona, known as Fatem. Hassona, 25, was killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza on April 16th.

The film festival has paused to honor the slain journalist, who documented daily life in Gaza since the start of the Israeli ground offensive in retaliation to the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Hassona’s name has been added to the list of some 200 journalists killed since the start of Israel’s ground offensive. Festival attendees rose to honor Hassona’s memory at a screening of “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”, a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi featuring Hassona.

In addition, the president of the Cannes competition jury, Juliette Binoche, paid tribute to Fatem during the opening ceremony on May 13. The day before, an open letter published in Vanity Fair and Libération, gathering more than 300 cinema figures condemned the silence over Gaza.

Farsi’s documentary, presented by ACID and slated for French release on September 24th, captures the friendship and conversations between the two women, highlighting Hassona’s life and dreams within the confines of Gaza. The film also exposes the stark contrast between Hassona’s life in the besieged territory and Farsi’s relative freedom and comfort abroad, and seeks to eternally record the thoughts and life of a young Gazan, connecting us to what will always be missing from the informational realm: intimacy, the impression of touching one life and, through it, all others.

Hassona’s photographs are on display at the Majestic Hotel and the Palestinian pavilion in the Village International during the festival, fulfilling her wish for a loud and spectacular death that would make her more than “just a number on the last page of a newspaper.”

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