One World Screening: The Voice of Hind Rajab

One World Liberec

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza and begs to be rescued. As the aid workers try to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania works at the boundary between dramatic reconstruction and documentary, and The Voice of Hind Rajab is no exception. The story, centred on the rescue effort by call-centre staff in Ramallah, uses recordings of the actual phone calls.

With very few images, the film draws its power from voices and silence, and from the contrast between a child’s hope and the harsh reality of war. The result is a spare but urgent account of the failure to protect civilians and of how easily an individual life can disappear into the anonymity of armed conflict.

Tickets:

https://www.evstupenka.cz/cs/akce/Qk4IQ7CeSb2xHnv5p4qGWQ-hlas-hind-radzab-kaouther-ben-hania

Advance ticket sales close at 12:00 noon on the day of the screening. Tickets can then be bought at the venue.