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The Voice of Hind Rajab

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• Documentary
• Drama

• 2025
• Kaouther Ben Hania
• 88 mins
• 15

Summary

Drama documentary that uses the audio from a real emergency phone call. In Gaza, January 2024, Red Crescent volunteers speak with five-year-old Hind Rajab. She is trapped under a car following an Israeli attack that has killed six family members, and she remains under fire. As Hind describes her situation and begs for help, the staff battle to get an ambulance to her.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

James Mottram

A five-year-old Palestinian girl trapped in the crossfire of an Israeli attack in Gaza calls for help in this harrowing true-life docudrama produced by Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix. Set entirely in a Red Crescent emergency centre, the film uses real audio of Hind Rajab, alone in a stationary vehicle with her relatives all dead around her as bullets rain down. Volunteer Omar (Motaz Malhees) takes her call, desperate to get an ambulance to her, but clashes with his protocol-following colleague Mahdi (Amer Hlehel), making it an agonising process. Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) pulls together an urgent and often difficult-to-watch piece, as the frightened child begs to be rescued. Ben Hania handles the material sensitively right to the end, even when footage of the real car is shown. Some may question the ethics of using a real distress call, but the result is a devastating anti-war work.

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8.2/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameRana Hassan FaqihSaja KilaniOmar A AlqamMotaz MalheesMahdi M AljamalAmer HlehelNisreen Jeries QawasClara Khoury

Crew

rolenameDirectorKaouther Ben Hania

Details

Theatrical distributor

Altitude

Released on

2026-01-16

Languages

English | Arabic

Guidance

Swearing, disturbing content

Formats

Colour

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