Built around real audio recordings of the Palestinian girl’s final moments, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a docudrama like no other. Jacobin spoke with the film’s director, Kaouther Ben Hania, about Hind Rajab’s death and the urgency of post–October 7 cinema.

Built around real audio recordings, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a haunting docudrama that focuses on the final phone calls of a young Palestinian girl, using her recorded voice to bear witness to civilian suffering and the human cost of war. It has earned the Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film. Writer-director Ben Hania’s tour de force has creatively encapsulated the gobsmacking misery that has been unleashed since October 8, 2023, upon the children of Gaza, where “a staggering 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or maimed . . . including at least 1,000 babies,”

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