THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Tunis, France, 2025., Dokudrama, 89'
Sinopsis:
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an urgent call: a six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading to be rescued. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to send an ambulance to her. The girl’s name was Hind Rajab.
Director Kaouther Ben Hania, twice nominated for an Academy Award (Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin), presents a film based on true events, using real audio recordings that went around the world in January 2024.
The film had its world premiere in the competition program of the Venice Film Festival, where it received the Grand Jury Prize and earned the longest standing ovation ever recorded at a film festival — over 23 minutes.
It has been screened and awarded at numerous international festivals and is Tunisia’s submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. World-renowned actors and directors also served as co-producers on the film, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer.
It is shortlisted for the European Film Award (EFA).