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Director
Kaouther Ben Hania
Cast
Motaz Malhees,
Saja Kilani,
Amer Hlehel,
Clara Khoury,
Nesbat Serhan
Genre
Drama
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-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.
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Original-Cin by Liam Lacey
Yes, The Voice of Hind Rajab is both emotionally distressing and ethically uncomfortable, brutally so, as it was intended to be. But for all the reviewers’ gut-wrenching adjectives, the critics were physically safe from harm.
RogerEbert.com by Marya E. Gates
The structure dispels the idea that there is a “right way” to navigate the Kafkaesque complexities of an oppressive regime, as is made plain by the ultimate fate of Hind and the two ambulance first responders, Youssef Zeino and Ahmed Madhoun.
Time Out by Whelan Barzey
As in her Oscar-nominated documentary The Four Daughters, Ben Hania refuses to let the audience look away.
Screen Rant by Gregory Nussen
Director Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab is a shattering docu-film which utilizes a novel mix of real audio and footage with actors' reconstruction in a Herculean effort to make this profound loss even more immediate. Hers is a utilitarian mission: to embed the audience in the sensory experience of being in a war zone without letting them scroll past or swipe to the next video.
BBC by Nicholas Barber
No other film this year will get more people talking, or more people crying.
The Times by Kevin Maher
It is deliberately punishing material, channelled through unapologetic, galvanising film-making. Politicians should see it. Decision-makers should see it.
The Playlist by Marshall Shaffer
Take out a thesaurus for any overused critical buzzword about political cinema – timely, urgent, necessary – and they all fail to capture the shattering impact of Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab.
IndieWire by Sophie Monks Kaufman
The Voice of Hind Rajab is an invitation to a public mourning.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Bilge Ebiri
Aware of the raw, incendiary power of her subject matter, Ben Hania doesn’t sensationalize this story, keeping the action fixed entirely in the call center itself, with actors portraying the dispatchers on the line.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Ben Hania lights a connective fuse between documentary and drama.
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