On January 29, 2024, five-year-old Hind Rajab was trapped in a car under heavy fire in Gaza — the sole survivor among her family. Her desperate emergency calls reached volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, who attempted to keep her calm and coordinate a rescue, even as their efforts were blocked by IDF checkpoints and the impossibility of securing safe passage.
In The Voice of Hind Rajab, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin) interweaves the real emergency recordings — which went viral globally — with dramatizations of the paramedics racing against time, capturing both their anguish and determination. Centering on one child’s life and the volunteers risking their own to save civilians, Ben Hania brings visceral immediacy and human urgency to an ongoing war that has killed tens of thousands. The film was made in collaboration with Hind’s family and the Palestine Red Crescent.
Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature
“The most vital film of the decade. An astonishing blend of dramatisation and reality.” – GQ
“No other film this year will get more people talking, or more people crying. ★★★★★” – BBC
“A fierce, vehement piece of work.” – London Evening Standard
“Aware of the raw, incendiary power of her subject matter, Ben Hania doesn’t sensationalize this story, keeping the action fixed entirely in the call center itself, with actors portraying the dispatchers on the line.” – Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine (Vulture)
“Ben Hania shows little interest in agitprop. By burrowing into the granular details of this one tragedy on this one day, she arrives at an extraordinarily far-reaching articulation of an acutely contemporary emotion.” – Ben Croll, TheWrap
“There is a reckless, ruthless kind of provocative brilliance in what Ben Hania is doing.” – The Guardian
