The Voice of Hind Rajab

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1h 30m

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War

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Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stay on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza.

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Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to witness as they are impossible to forget, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a harrowing docudrama that makes a powerful appeal to humanity.

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Bob Mondello

NPR

3d

The actors on screen react in real-time with the recordings of that harrowing day, and the effect is at once painfully direct, and profound.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

3d

What is being presented instead is a remembrance and a plea to keep the fires of moral urgency lighted.

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

5d

Visually, this widescreen film is a virtuoso exercise in (mostly) single-location filmmaking.

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Liam Lacey

Original Cin

21h

A

Intentionally emotionally distressing and ethically complicated, director Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful hybrid documentary-drama places us in the position of aid workers struggling to save a five-year-old Palestinian child in her last hours of life.

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Landon Defever

InSession Film

3d

A-

In its mission to increase visibility of an ongoing atrocity, The Voice of Hind Rajab succeeds as a plea for humanity in increasingly dark times.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

3d

8/10

The role of films like The Voice of Hind Rajab is therefore to remind everyone that the work does matter. It exposes truths so that the next tragedy might be prevented.

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Alaa A.

@alaasadi 3d

Gut wrenching and heartbreaking to say the least. The creative approach of docudrama served its purpose perfectly on this film. Constantly reminding viewers of the horrific reality, and embodying the helplessness of people whose job is to help. Rest in heavenly peace, Hanood.

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@Rania222 4d

Omgggggg absolutely heartbreaking and breathtaking alllll at once!!!! Hind must have been soooooooo utterly petrified in the back of that Kia along side her dead relatives as the IOF pummeled her car further with over 350 bullets!!!! I literally couldn’t even speak right after I saw this movie!!!! It was stupendous and soooo accurate too. You can literally hear the live audio recording of her while she’s in the car pleading begging to be saved as it became dark. And she says she’s in grade school, she’s in the butterfly school!!!! It is NO WONDER this film got an over 20 minute standing ovation and first place at the Venice Film Festival!!!!!! We miss you Hind, may you rest in peace my sweet sweet angel….

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Kaouther Ben Hania

Director

Saja Kilani

Rana Hassan Faqih

Motaz Malhees

Omar A. Alqam

Clara Khoury

Nisreen Jeries Qawas

Amer Hlehel

Mahdi M. Aljamal

Kaouther Ben Hania

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Synopsis

Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stay on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha, James Wilson, Odessa Rae
Screenwriter: Kaouther Ben Hania
Distributor: WILLA
Production Co: JW Films Production, Tanit Films, Mime Films, RaeFilm Studios
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 17, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 30m