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The Voice of Hind Rajab


  • Film Forum 209 West Houston Street New York, NY, 10014 United States (map)

Opens Wednesday, December 17
For an Exclusive NYC Engagement

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KAOUTHER BEN HANIA

WINNER – Grand Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival

January 29, 2024: a 5-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, is trapped in a car under heavy fire in Gaza, the sole survivor. Her emergency calls reach the volunteers of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, who desperately attempt to calm and rescue her—the latter obstructed by IDF checkpoints and the unlikelihood of safe passage. In THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (FOUR DAUGHTERS, THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN) blends the actual phone recordings—which went viral several weeks after this incident with dramatizations of the emergency workers racing against time, and the situation's emotional impact, to coordinate paramedics who could save her. By focusing on one life—and the lives of volunteers who risk their lives to save civilians—Ben Hania brings humanity and urgency to a war that has killed or caused the deaths of over 70,000, per a recent UN estimate. [Note: the film was made in partnership and collaboration with Rajab's family and Palestine Red Crescent.]

2025     89 MIN.     TUNISIA / FRANCE     WILLA     IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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