Set to make its debut at the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, Kawther Ben Hania’s next body of work, The Voice of Hind Rajab, is already receiving widespread attention for its urgent subject matter, drawing global stars Joaquin Phoenix and Brad Pitt to join its production team in an effort to maximize its reach.
According to several outlets, the A-list duo are expected to serve as executive producers, alongside a prestigious list of other collaborators such as Alfonso Cuarón, Rooney Mara, Jonathan Glazer, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner.
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The feature retraces the final hours of six-year-old Hind Rajab, trapped in a car while attempting to flee Gaza with her relatives. When their vehicle was shelled by an Israeli tank, her uncle, aunt, and three cousins were killed instantly, leaving only Hind and her 15-year-old cousin alive. The cousin was later killed as well, leaving Hind alone in the wreckage. In a desperate plea for survival, she contacted the Red Crescent, but the ambulance sent to rescue her was itself struck, killing Hind along with the paramedics.
“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,” Ben Hania said in a previous statement about the film. “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,” she added.
Though there’s no official release date just yet, the hope is that with these big names now on board, the film will shine an even brighter light on the genocide that’s been unfolding in Gaza for nearly two years.
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