The Voice of Hind Rajab

Few filmmakers have used the medium of cinema to explore the nature of truth as profoundly as Kaouther Ben Hania. In The Voice of Hind Rajab, she does so with more force and urgency than ever before.

In January 2024, the Red Crescent’s emergency call center receives a call from a six-year-old Palestinian girl. She is trapped inside a car in northern Gaza, surrounded by her dead relatives as bullets rattle against the chassis. While some of the volunteers at the call center try to keep her alive by talking to her, others do everything they can to send an ambulance. Ben Hania’s dramatization of Hind Rajab’s real-life call – and the chain of events it set in motion – is shattering, heartbreaking, and devastatingly powerful. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Venice.