The Voice of Hind Rajab

Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her.

Hind is trapped in a car, surrounded by dead bodies, gunfire and Israeli tanks. From their offices, humanitarian volunteers fight against red tape to dispatch an ambulance in a race against time. Blending documentary and fiction in service of undeniable truth, the real-life audio recordings of Hind’s final hours are woven seamlessly into this recreation of the desperate mission to save her.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania balances hope and helplessness on a tightrope, while honouring both the victims of violence and those who fight to protect them. This film is extremely difficult to watch, but it is essential filmmaking that cuts through the noise, capturing the human devastation at the heart of war and placing Hind – a child who had just graduated from kindergarten - at the centre of it.