Our next movie night is coming up and we invite you all to join us in watching “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, at Zwille on the TU Berlin campus, on Wednesday, 18 March. Doors will be open from 6 pm, we will be preparing food to break the fast together at sunset before we start the screening around 7 pm.
The movie recounts the real events around the death of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, in Gaza on 29 January 2024, at the hands of the Israeli military. Her cries for help, captured during a live call to emergency services, were broadcast worldwide. The movie is told from the perspective of the members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Ramallah who received the emergency call and stayed on the line with Hind for hours while trying to arrange for her rescue. “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is a harrowing depiction of the violence of the Israeli army and the systems they have created to prevent Palestinians from helping each other. This is just one story out of the tens of thousands of children and civilians killed in Gaza since the escalation of the genocide.
While the events are reenacted for the film, Hind Rajab’s voice is real, taken from the Red Crescent’s phone call recordings. Ben Hania also includes footage of the real staff, blurring the line between dramatization and reality and reminding us that this is a true story, one that continues to happen amid an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. The voices of Hind Rajab and her cousin Layan Hamadeh remain with us and stand as an urgent plea for justice, for an end to the genocide and for a free Palestine in which children are allowed to be children.
After the screening, we will have a discussion on the dimensions of violence of the Israeli occupation, on art as a means of both rememberance and political action, and everything else that the film brings up in you. We look forward to sharing this experience with you!