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Film review Audacious Gaza docufiction is fierce and heart-breaking

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September 05, 2025

There can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is this one, from the Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.

- Peter Bradshaw

Film review Audacious Gaza docufiction is fierce and heart-breaking

There can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is this one, from the Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania. The Voice of Hind Rajab is about the horrifying ordeal of the five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab who was killed in 2024 by the IDF in Gaza in her uncle's car along with six family members and two paramedics trying to come to their rescue; Hind, who survived the original assault, stayed on the phone for hours to the Palestinian Red Crescent, begging for help.

With startling audacity, Ben Hania has used the real audio recording of Hind's heartwrenching voice; she has fictionally reconstructed the drama of the emergency responders in their call-centre office, real people played by actors, talking in response to Hind's actual voice.

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