{"id":54162,"date":"2026-05-21T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54162"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:38:36","slug":"review-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-movie-review-harrowing-gaza-docudrama-is-breathless-vital-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54162","title":{"rendered":"Review | The Voice of Hind Rajab movie review: harrowing Gaza docudrama is breathless, vital cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/18\/2f277c80-0dce-4797-bb02-6dda0f39b130_e378759d.jpg?itok=b5IAhUB-&amp;v=1779095086\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unfolding in near real-time, Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s riveting docudrama <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Voice of Hind Rajab<\/em> recreates the desperate efforts of Red Crescent workers to rescue a young Palestinian girl trapped in a car in the Gaza Strip after her family is attacked by the Israel Defence Forces.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Seamlessly blending actual voice recordings with dramatic reconstructions, the film is a harrowing and politically potent thriller about the true price of war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On January 29, 2024, volunteers at a Red Crescent emergency call centre in Ramallah receive a desperate phone call. Five-year-old Hind Rajab, known as Hanood, is trapped in a car with six murdered family members after the vehicle was fired upon by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Phone operators Omar (Motaz Malhees) and Rana (Saja Kilani) are not only faced with keeping the young child calm but also with cutting through mountains of red tape involving authorities from both sides of the conflict so that they can send a rescue party into the war-torn neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A co-production between France and Tunisia, Ben Hania\u2019s film received the Grand Jury Prize at last year\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Venice International Film Festival<\/span>, in the process attracting the attention of numerous politically active heavyweights from Hollywood\u2019s upper echelons.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3353968\/voice-hind-rajab-movie-review-harrowing-gaza-docudrama-breathless-vital-cinema?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/5 stars Unfolding in near real-time, Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s riveting docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab recreates the desperate efforts of Red Crescent workers to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13268,6912,23154,2489,23153,23151,1543,23152,28,2990,3005],"class_list":["post-54162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-breathless","tag-cinema","tag-docudrama","tag-gaza","tag-harrowing","tag-hind","tag-movie","tag-rajab","tag-review","tag-vital","tag-voice","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}