Hold my hand

US premiere

Daily life in confinement during the pandemic, where moments of care, life, and death unfold in resonance with a series of poems that punctuate the fragility of shared moments.

Sophie Sherman, Belgium, 2025, 17 min, in English & French with English subtitles

About the Artist

Sophie Sherman (1980) is a filmmaker based in Brussels, Belgium. She has a master’s degree in Documentary direction from the Province University of Aix en Provence (Fr) and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Fine Arts College of Marseille (Fr). She was then admitted at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Fr). Her films were screened at Torino Film Festival, IT ; L’Alternativa – Barcelona, ES; at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, GR; at Riga Int. Film Festival, LV; Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, BE; Ontsteking Art Space, BE; among others. In recent years, she has mainly explored the medium of 16 mm through a documentary, essay-based, experimental, and poetic approach, with films such as The walk (2015, 19′), The water was here (2025, 15′, co-directed with Némo Camus), and Hold my hand (2025, 17′).