Director: Kaouther Ben Hania/2025/Tunisia,France/89min/Subtitles
As part of WOW Around Wales, the year-round touring programme of WOW Film Festival that brings bold, socially engaged cinema to communities across Wales, we are proud to present The Voice of Hind Rajab, a powerful and urgent cinematic experience that transcends traditional documentary form.
Directed by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, The Voice of Hind Rajab bears witness to the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was trapped in a car under Israeli military fire in Gaza on January 29, 2024. Through the use of real emergency call recordings and carefully constructed re-enactments based on first-hand testimony and transcripts, the film reconstructs the hours during which Hind remained alive, alone, and pleading for help as Red Crescent dispatchers desperately tried to reach her.
This is a film that demands not only empathy, but attention; a testament to Palestinian lives, to resistance through truth-telling, and to cinema’s power to confront injustice and amplify silenced voices.
Languages: English, Arabic with English Subtitles
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Cyfarwyddwr: Kaouther Ben Hania/2025/Tunisia,France/89munud/Isdeitlau
Fel rhan o WOW Rownd Cymru, rhaglen deithiol Gŵyl Ffilm WOW gydol y flwyddyn sy'n dod â sinema feiddgar, gymdeithasol i gymunedau ledled Cymru, rydym yn falch o gyflwyno The Voice of Hind Rajab, profiad sinematig pwerus sy'n mynd y tu hwnt i ffurf ffilm ddogfen draddodiadol.
Wedi'i gyfarwyddo gan wneuthurwr ffilmiau a enwebwyd am Wobr yr Academi, Kaouther Ben Hania, mae The Voice of Hind Rajab yn tystio i ladd merch chwech oed o Balesteina, Hind Rajab, a oedd yn teithio mewn car a dargedwyd gan filwyr Israel yn Gaza ar Ionawr 29, 2024. Clywir recordiadau galwadau brys go iawn ac eraill wedi eu hail-greu'n ofalus yn seiliedig ar dystiolaeth a thrawsgrifiadau uniongyrchol. Mae'r ffilm yn ail-greu'r oriau pan yr oedd Hind yn fyw, ar ei phen ei hun, ac yn erfyn am gymorth wrth i weithwyr y Cilgant Coch geisio'n daer ei chyrraedd.
Mae hon yn ffilm sy'n mynnu nid yn unig empathi, ond sylw; tystia i fywydau Palesteinaidd, i bwysigrwydd rhannu’r gwir, ac i bŵer sinema i wynebu anghyfiawnder ac i gynnig platform i leisiau tawel.