Year of production : 2025 Format : Feature Running time : 89 (in minutes)
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
mit | estrelado | starring | avec Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel, Hind Rajab
ein film von | um filme de | a film by | un film de Kaouther BEN HANIA
Tunisia, France | 2025 | Feature Docu-Drama | 1h29 | Drama
Content advisory: Violence, Killing, from true events
Director's Statement There was something electric in the energy around this project so immediate, so alive. I never imagined it would be possible to go from start to finish in just twelve months. Here's how it all began: I was in the middle of the Oscar campaign for Les filles d'Olfa, and mentally preparing to finally enter pre- production on a film I had been writing for ten years. Then, during a layover at LAX, everything shifted. I heard an audio recording of Hind Rajab begging for help. By then, her voice had already spread across the Internet. I immediately felt a mix of helplessness, and an overwhelming sadness. A physical reaction, like the ground shifted under me. I couldn't carry on as planned. I contacted the Red Crescent and asked them to let me hear the full audio. After listening to it, I knew, without a doubt, that I had to drop everything else. I had to make this film. I spoke at length with Hind's mother, with the real people who were on the other end of that call, those who tried to help her. I listened, I cried, I wrote. Then I wove a story around their testimonies, using the real audio recording of Hind's voice, and building a single-location film where the violence remains off-screen. That was a deliberate choice. Because violent images are everywhere on our screens, our timelines, our phones. What I wanted was to focus on the invisible: the waiting, the fear, the unbearable sound of silence when help doesn't come. Sometimes, what you don't see is more devastating than what you do. At the heart of this film is something very simple, and very hard to live with. I cannot accept a world where a child calls for help and no one comes. That pain, that failure, belongs to all of us. This story is not just about Gaza. It speaks to a universal grief. And I believe that fiction (especially when it draws from verified, painful, real events) is cinema's most powerful tool. More powerful than the noise of breaking news or the forgetfulness of scrolling. Cinema can preserve a memory. Cinema can resist amnesia. May Hind Rajab's voice be heard.
Titles | Titres : The Voice of Hind Rajab صوت هند رجب Ṣawt Hind Rajab La voix de Hind Rajab
Country | Pays : Tunisia, France | Tunisie, France Year | Année : 2025 Runtime | Durée : 89 mins (1h29) Language | Langue (Version Originale) : َArabic | Arabe Tags : Genocide, Palestine, Politics, Youth, Violence, Killing, Humanity, African, North African, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean
CAST | ACTRICES - ACTEURS : Hind Rajab (voice | voix) Saja Kilani (Rana Hassan Faqih) Clara Khoury (Nisreen Jeries Qawas) Motaz Malhees (Omar A. Alqam) Amer Hlehel (Mahdi M. Aljamal)
Producers | Producteurs : Nadim Cheikhrouha (Tanit Films) James Wilson Odessa Rae
Executive Producers | Producteur délégués : Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonathan Glazer, Alfonso Cuarón, Jemima Khan, Frank Giustra, Guillaume Rambourg, Sarah Rambourg, Sabine Getty
Dirección | REGISSEURIN / REALIZADORA / DIRECTOR / RÉALISATRICE : Kaouther BEN HANIA
Guiónista | Screenwriter | Scénariste : Kaouther Ben Hania
Cinematography | Images : Juan Sarmiento G.
Editor | Monteur : Qutaiba Barhamji, Maxime Mathis, Kaouther Ben Hania
Sound | Ingénieurs du son : Amal Attia, Elias Boughedir, Gwennolé LeBorgne, Marion Papinot, Lars Ginzel
Music | Musique : Amine Bouhafa
Production Designer | Décors : Bassem Marzouk
Costume Designer | Costumes : Khadija Zeggai
Producción | PRODUKTION / PRODUÇÃO / PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION : - Mime Films - Tanit Films - JW Films - RaeFilm Studios - Plan B Entertainment - Watermelon Pictures - Film4 - MBC Studios
Exportation / WORLD SALES | VENTES INTERNATONALES : The Party Film Sales Samuel Blanc (he-him | il-lui), Sales Agent | Vendeur 16 rue Frochot - 75009 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 40 22 92 15 / +33 6 77 19 48 58 / samuel.blanc(@)thepartysales.com
Theatrical and cultural rights in the Arab World : MAD Distribution
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: I Wonder Pictures Via della Zecca, 2 40121 Bologna, Italia distribution(@)iwonderpictures.com | www.iwonderpictures.com
PRESS OFFICE: Charles McDonald - International Rescue PR 61B Rivington Street EC2A 3QQ London, United Kingdom Tel: +44 7785 246377 E-mail: charles(@)charlesmcdonald.co.uk
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE: Stefania Collalto - Echo Via G. B. Morgagni, 33 20129 Milano, Italia Tel: +39 3394279472 E-mail: collalto(@)echogroup.it
CONTACT (Print Copy / Diffusion du film, Festivals) :
PRODUCTION 1: Mime Films Nadim Cheikhrouha (he-him | il-lui), Producer | Producteur Avenue du 10 Décembre 1948, Immeuble Saadi, Tour AB, Bureau A26 1004 Menzah 4 - Tunis, Tunisia Tel: +33 682086487 E-mail: mimefilmstunisia(@)gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: Tanit Films Nadim Cheikhrouha (he-him | il-lui), Producer | Producteur 61 Rue Piat - 75020 Paris, France Tel: +33 682086487 E-mail: nadim.cheikhrouha(@)gmail.com
PRODUCTION 3: JW Films Jim Wilson E-mail: jw(@)jw-films.com
PRODUCTION 4: RaeFilm Studios Odessa Rae (She-her | elle), Producer | Productrice 123 Washington St #53H - 10006 New York, United States of America Tel: +1 3109207832 E-mail: Odessarae(@)gmail.com | www.instagram.com/odxssarae
Plan B Entertainment Brad Pitt (he-him | il-lui), Producer | Producteur
/// 2025 | Selection: Tunisian entry for the Best International Feature Film (Représentant de la Tunisie à l'Oscar du Meilleur film international) || 98th Academy Awards (Oscars 2026)
/// 2025 | World premiere - Première Mondiale (Official Competition) || 82nd Mostra de Venise - Venezia 82 - Venice Film Festival | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 Grand Jury Prize (Lion d'Argent) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) | screening-projection : 3 sept. 2025 /// 2025 | 🏆 Arca CinemaGiovani Award (Best Film of Venezia 82) /// 2025 | 🏆 XXXVII Prix CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni (Medaglia Fellini 2025 | Consiglio Internazionale del Cinema e della Televisione CICT UNESCO - Comitato Italiano) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 Croce Rossa Italiana Award || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 Edipo Re Award (Edipo Re Srl Sociale, in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Padova and Università Ca' Foscari) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 Leoncino d'Oro Award (Agiscuola/UNICEF) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 "Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award" for Best Foreign Film XII edition | (Dream On SRL) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy) /// 2025 | 🏆 UNIMED Award (UNIMED, Mediterranean University Union) || Venezia 82 | Venice (Italy)
/// 2025 | Selection: Special Presentations (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE) || 50th Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF | Toronto (Canada) | screening-projection : 7 Sept. 2025
/// 2025 | Selection: Official Competition || 69th BFI London Film Festival | London (UK)
/// 2025 | Selection: Perlak || 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival | San Sebastian (Spain)
/// 2025 | Selection: World Cinema Section || 30th Busan International Film Festival | Busan (South Korea)
Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) : ► Africiné Magazine (Dakar) ► www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2025/venezia-82-competition/voice-hind-rajab ► www.thepartysales.com/movie/the-voice-of-hind-rajab/ ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_of_Hind_Rajab#cite_note-18 ► www.labiennale.org/en/news/collateral-awards-and-events-82nd-venice-film-festival ► https://tiff.net/films/the-voice-of-hind-rajab Updated by Thierno DIA, 07 Sep 2025
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