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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB | صوت هند رجب

05/10/2025, 21:30, CINOBO OPERA 1


TUNISIA, FRANCE, USA | 2025 | COLOR | DCP | 89’ | COLOR | DCP | ARABIC

How can one remain unmoved by the desperate pleas for help from a six-year-old girl from Palestine, trapped in a car that has just been riddled with Israeli bullets, a girl hidden all alone among the dead bodies of her murdered relatives as danger looms? And how can we not sympathize with the anguish of this little child, but also with the desperate efforts of a handful of volunteers who are trying to rescue her as quickly as possible? The story is true. And with a powerful combination of fiction and documentary, based on audio recordings of the real event, Ben Hania dramatizes the chronicle of a tragedy without sentimentality, in a film as painful as it is urgent, which has already been selected as Tunisia's official entry for the upcoming Oscars. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival (many felt it should have won the Golden Lion), and has the support of big names like Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonathan Glazer, and is currently the most talked-about film of 2025. L.K.

Introduction by representatives of the Filmmakers for Palestine Greece Network.

DIRECTOR: Kaouther Ben Hania
SCREENWRITER: Kaouther Ben Hania
DoP: Juan Sarmiento G.
MUSIC: Amine Bouhafa
EDITORS: Qutaiba Barhamji, Maxime Mathis, Kaouther Ben Hania
PRINCIPAL CAST: Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani

KAOUTHER BEN HANIA

Award-winning Tunisian director and writer known for socially relevant films like “Beauty and the Dogs” (2017) and “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020), the latter being the first Tunisian film nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Her work often explores themes of social injustice and institutional violence, blending documentary and fictional elements. She studied cinema in Tunisia and Paris at La Fémis and the Sorbonne and has directed several feature films, short films, and documentaries.

FILMOGRAPHY

2025 The Voice of Hind Rajab
2020 The Man Who Sold His Skin
2017 Beauty and the Dogs
2016 Zaineb Hates the Snow

 


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