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The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025
|Documentary
|89'
by Kaouther Ben Hania
[Tunisia, France]
Synopsis
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire by the IDF 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.
The film is based on real events and emergency calls recorded by the Palestine Red Crescent. The voices on the phone are real.
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Biography
Kaouther Ben Hania constantly explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Her last film, Four Daughters, was nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Awards® 2024 after being presented in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film received numerous prestigious awards and was sold in over 40 territories. Her previous film The Man Who Sold His Skin was also nominated at the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film in 2021, representing Tunisia. All her other films have premiered at prestigious festivals including: Cannes, Venice, AFI, Los Angeles, Locarno, IDFA, Hot Docs Toronto. The Voice of Hind Rajab will be her sixth film.