On 29 January 2024, Palestine Red Crescent Society volunteers received an emergency call from a family trapped in a car under Israeli military fire in northern Gaza. Moments later, only six-year-old Hind Rajab remained alive, surrounded by the bodies of her family members. For hours, she pleaded for rescue whilst dispatchers worked frantically to reach her, navigating an impossible maze of military approvals and bureaucratic protocols.

Oscar-nominated Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) dropped everything to make this film after hearing Hind’s voice. In this groundbreaking docudrama, she merges documentary and fiction filmmaking, interweaving the actual 70-minute audio recordings with powerful dramatisations of the call centre’s response. Actors who closely resemble the real dispatchers perform alongside Hind’s own voice, creating an unsettling verisimilitude. The technique is both intimate and devastating: we hear the authentic recordings whilst witnessing the emotional toll on those who answered the call.

What unfolds is a tense, single-location drama where volunteers juggle protocol, panic and moral urgency, trying to comfort Hind whilst negotiating an impossible reality. Even though we know the heartbreaking outcome, Ben Hania builds unbearable suspense—a testament to an innocent life lost and the courage of those who tried to save her.

The film received a record-breaking 23-minute standing ovation at Venice, won the Grand Jury Prize, and has been selected as Tunisia’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.
Executive produced by Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer,

The Voice of Hind Rajab becomes both memorial and demand: to hear is to be changed, and to remember is a refusal to let violence be perpetrated in silence.