The Voice of Hind Rajab centers on a single recorded emergency call from Gaza on January 29, 2024, built around the real audio of that day rather than a scripted re-enactment.
What is The Voice Of Hind Rajab about?
Director Kaouther Ben Hania constructs the film almost entirely around one incident: a five-year-old girl trapped inside a car under gunfire, calling emergency services for help while Red Crescent workers try to keep her on the line and coordinate an ambulance to reach her. Rather than dramatizing the events with actors standing in for every voice, the film incorporates the actual recorded call, using actors to portray the responders and officials working the case from the control room and the streets around it. The structure keeps the focus tight and procedural, tracking what the volunteers could hear, what they could confirm, and how long it took anyone to reach the car, turning a single afternoon into the film's entire runtime.
About the cast
The film credits Hind Rajab herself for the recorded call at its center, with Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Nesbat Serhan and Ramy Brahem playing the responders, officials and family members surrounding that call.
Context & significance
The Voice of Hind Rajab is an international co-production spanning France, Tunisia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Italy and the Netherlands, reflecting how widely the story was followed after the call itself became public. Ben Hania, known for blending documentary material with staged scenes in her earlier work, applies the same method here, and the film has been very well received on the festival circuit since its release.
Watching The Voice Of Hind Rajab on Ktime
K-Time streams The Voice of Hind Rajab with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so Farsi-speaking viewers can choose either. A free K-Time account is enough to begin watching, and the title's page can be viewed without signing in first, consistent with K-Time's Farsi-first approach to international documentary and drama alike.