The Voice of Hind Rajab (M)

Academy Award nominee for International Feature Film.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Film, Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab is harrowing drama that utilises real footage and audio.

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. As complications continue to arise, the situation becomes increasingly more difficult, and responders are forced to juggle protocol, panic, and moral urgency while trying to comfort Hind amongst negotiating an impossible reality.

Cast: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania

★★★★★ "Discomfiting and emotionally devastating in the extreme, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s dramatised account of Hind’s death is utterly essential film-making." EVENING STANDARD

★★★★★ "Powerful, heart-wrenching and compelling filmmaking." FLICK FEAST

★★★★★ "Hind Rajab’s story is almost too terrible to face, yet this masterwork from Kaouther Ben Hania demands we bear witness." LITTLE WHITE LIES

★★★★★ "No other film this year will get more people talking, or more people crying." BBC

★★★★★ "the most uncompromising and politically consequential movie of the Venice Film Festival" TIMES UK

★★★★★ "the fraught, still voice of war in a searing dramatisation" ARTS DESK

★★★★★ "The cast do admirable work in a film that must have tested them too. The result is exactly as harrowing as it needs to be." FINANCIAL TIMES

★★★★★ "An urgent call to attention that there are so many more Hind Rajabs being wiped from existence every day. And this film, with its astonishing attention to detail and unflinching portrayal of tragic loss, gives a voice to each and every one of them." FILM FEEDER