NZIFF - The Voice of Hind Rajab
<div>The devastating last words of a five-year-old girl - and a film that refuses to let the world look away.</div><div><br></div><div><div>In The Voice of Hind Rajab, the voice in question is a small one, belonging to a young girl alone and in unconscionable peril, high and breathless with fear and confusion. But it cuts through Kaouther Ben Hania’s film with piercing clarity, largely because, in contrast to a surrounding chorus of frantic adult voices, it isn’t performed. Rather, it’s a real-life recording of the last words ever spoken by Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian child killed on Jan. 29, 2024, after her family’s</div><div>car was shelled by Israeli forces during their invasion of the Gaza Strip. In her final hours, the girl repeatedly phoned call-center volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, pleading for a rescue vehicle that never made it to her.</div><div><br></div><div>Making that horrifying 70-minute audio file the heart and spine of her film, Ben Hania baldly confronts her audience with the real-time fate of one of more than 18,000 children killed so far in an ongoing genocide.</div><div><br></div><div>If The Voice of Hind Rajab opens one hitherto blinkered eye, or ear, to the atrocities in Gaza, it will have done its job. - Guy Lodge, Variety</div></div>DocudramaPT1H30MM2026-09-01Saja Kilani
Motaz Malhees
Amer Hiehel
Clara Khoury
Kaouther Ben Hania
Nadim Cheikhrouha ,Odessa Rae
James Wilson
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