Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Cast: Hind Rajab, Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury
The Voice of Hind Rajab is a 2025 multinational drama film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, drawing from a documented real event in Gaza. Over 89 tense minutes, it reconstructs one of the most harrowing emergency calls to emerge from the conflict — a six-year-old girl crying for help, trapped and alone.
What is Sawt Hind Rajab about?
Red Crescent volunteers pick up a distress call that stops time. On the other end of the line is a small child — six years old — pinned inside a car in Gaza, surrounded by ongoing fire, with no one beside her. The dispatchers work frantically, toggling between phone lines and radio channels, trying to locate an ambulance and keep the girl calm and speaking. The film unfolds almost entirely through voices, silences, and the desperate arithmetic of emergency response: who can reach her, how fast, and whether time will allow it. No rescue is treated as a given. The tension is not manufactured — it is borrowed from documented reality, and that weight is felt in every scene.
Cast & crew
Tunisian-French director Kaouther Ben Hania, known for her unflinching nonfiction-adjacent cinema, brings formal precision to the material. The cast includes Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Nesbat Serhan, and Ramy Brahem — performers who ground the film's procedural tension in recognizable human fragility and desperation.
Context & significance
For Iranian diaspora viewers, The Voice of Hind Rajab carries immediate resonance. The film centers on a civilian child caught in a war zone — a moral situation that crosses all language and cultural borders. Persian-speaking communities outside Iran have followed events in Gaza closely; this film does not ask you to choose a political side but to sit with the weight of one documented moment. It is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, making it fully accessible for viewers of all ages. Films like this — rooted in real events, told with restraint — have a long tradition of finding devoted audiences among diaspora communities who value witness over spectacle.
Where & how to watch
The Voice of Hind Rajab is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start watching with a K-Time subscription and cancel anytime.