The Voice of Hind Rajab
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: Arabic
Starring: Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Motaz Malhees, Nesbat Serhan, Saja Kilani
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-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. Her name was Hind Rajab.
2026 Academy Award Nominee for Best International Feature, Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
“In a formal sense, ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is extraordinary – superbly acted, beautifully shot and shaped and edited with rare urgency. But its purpose is not primarily aesthetic. It is testimony – unflinching and deliberate – backed by a filmmaking elite that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer and Brad Pitt among its many executive producers. Hind Rajab’s story is almost too terrible to face, yet this film demands we bear witness.” ~ Leila Latif, Little White Lies