The Voice of Hind Rajab
- Tunisia, France
- 2025
- 89'
- Forum
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice IFF and a multitude of audience awards at various international film festivals. The film is based on actual events. On 29th January 2024, volunteers working for the Palestine Red Crescent Society received a distress call. In Gaza City, a six-year-old girl is trapped in a car, under heavy fire. She is begging for help. Trying desperately to keep her on the line, the rescuers do whatever they can to send an ambulance to get her. The little girl is called Hind Rajab. The latest film production from Kaouther Ben Hani, a two-time nominee for Academy Awards, is a heart-breaking and profoundly humanistic story dedicated to the heroism of common people. Many viewers and film critics claim that The Voice of Hind Rajab is the most important film of the decade. Among its producers, there are such names as: Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonathan Glazer, and Alfonso Cuarón. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for the Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language, and it was also one of the candidates for the Best International Feature Film.
- Directed by: Kaouther Ben Hania
- Screenplay: Kaouther Ben Hania
- Photography: Juan Sarmiento G.
- Production Design: Bassem Marzouk
- Editing: Qutaiba Barhamji, Maxime Mathis, Kaouther Ben Hania
- Cast: Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel
A film director and screenwriter from Tunisia. She completed film studies in Tunisia and in Paris (at Tunis School of Arts and Cinema, and then at La Fémis Film School and at Sorbonne). In 2005, she directed her début short film La Brèche, followed by the first feature film The Blade of Tunis, in 2013. Three years later, in 2016, she made the documentary film Zaineb Hates the Snow. Her films received many awards at international film festivals. The drama Beauty And The Dogs was screened in Cannes (in the Un Certain Regard section), in 2017, while The Man Who Sold His Skin was selected for the Venice IFF (in the Orizzonti section), in 2020, receiving an award for the best actor. A year later, in 2021, the latter was also a nominee for Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.
