Screening times:
Thursday, March 12, 6:30 PM
Friday, March 22, 6:30 PM

Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France | 2025 | 89m
Arabic with English subtitles

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers in the West Bank receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name is Hind Rajab.

The film is based on real events and emergency calls recorded by the Palestine Red Crescent. While actors play the parts of the Red Crescent volunteers, the voices on the phone are the actual recordings from the emergency phone calls — we hear the literal voice of Hind Rajab, hoping someone will come and save her.

The Voice of Hind Rajab is a powerful mix of drama and factual material from Kaouther Ben Hania, the filmmaker who made a documentary that utilized drama and reenactments, Four Daughters, which screened at Carbon Arc in February 2024. The Voice of Hind Rajab has been nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Grand Jury Prize - Venice International Film Festival 2025
City of Donostia / San Sebastián Audience Award for Best Film - San Sebastián International Film Festival
Best Film (nomination) - BFI London Film Festival
Jury Award - Chicago International Film Festival

“About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective.” - Empire Magazine, John Nugent

“The Voice of Hind Rajab’s release during the ongoing humanitarian crisis moves it beyond documentation and into an essential act of intervention.”- Whelan Barzey, Time Out

“A filmmaker who has worked in both fiction and documentary—and been nominated for both international-film and documentary Oscars—Ben Hania periodically reminds the audience just how faithful the re-creation they’re watching is.” - Sam Adams, Slate

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)