The Voice of Hind Rajab (San Rafael)
Director Kaouther Ben Hania will join in conversation after the screening.
January 29, 2024: a 5-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, is trapped in a car under heavy fire in Gaza, the sole survivor. Her emergency calls reach the volunteers of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, who desperately attempt to calm and rescue her—the latter obstructed by IDF checkpoints and the unlikelihood of safe passage.
In The Voice of Hind Rajab, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin) blends the actual phone recordings – which went viral several weeks after this incident – with dramatizations of the emergency workers racing against time, and the situation’s emotional impact, to coordinate paramedics who could save her.
Note: the film was made in partnership and collaboration with Rajab’s family and Palestine Red Crescent.
The Voice of Hind Rajab is nominated for the 2026 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
This is the third time director Kaouther Ben Hania received a nomination, making her the first Arab woman to receive multiple Oscar nominations.
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