As the cinema lights came back on, film maker Sepideh Farsi held up an image of the young Palestinian woman killed with younger siblings on April 16, and encouraged the audience to stand up and clap to pay tribute.
“There are still children to save. It must be done fast,“ the exiled Iranian filmmaker added.
In often disjointed discussions due to bad internet connection, Hassouna smiles widely and bravely says she is ok.
In one of her many pictures edited into the film, a little girl laughs on her father's lap in front of a tower block reduced to rubble.
'Normal people'
Israel has claimed it was targeting Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.
“They were normal people. Her father was a taxi driver, she was a photographer, her sister was a painter and her little brother was 10 years old”, said Farsi.
On Thursday, British filmmaker Ken Loach -- a double Palme d’Or winner -- on X called on people to honour Hassouna and fellow Palestinian journalists “who gave their lives to bear witness to mass murder”.
Reporters Without Borders estimates around 200 journalists have been killed in 18 months of Israeli strikes on Gaza.
As the Gaza death toll mounts, with rescuers saying 120 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday alone, the conflict has cast a shadow over Cannes.
Exiled Gazan film makers Arab and Tarzan Nasser will on Monday screen “Once Upon a Time in Gaza”, a portrait of two friends set in 2007, the year Hamas started tightening its grip on the territory.
“The English Patient” actor Juliette Binoche, who heads the main competition jury, paid homage to Hassouna on opening night.
“But reality caught up with us,“ she said.
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