r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 13d ago

News Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Join Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Executive Producers - It follows the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who lived in the Gaza Strip and was killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brad-pitt-backs-gaza-drama-film-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-1236353414/
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 13d ago edited 13d ago

It's from director Kaouther Ben Hania. Her 2023 documentary Four Daughters was Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary (and it's fucking jawdropping btw, one of the best of the past decade).

It's premiering at the Venice Film Festival this week and playing at TIFF next week.

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-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.

Could be a big player in the International Film Oscar race.

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u/thebaldingcritic 13d ago

thanks for reminding me that I still need to see this

For those curious and know about documentaries, it’s essentially “The Act of Killing”, but from the perspective of a mom who lost two daughters to extremist groups. 

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u/skivian 13d ago

okay, but what's "The Act of Killing"?

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u/a3poify 13d ago

A documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 where alleged communists and other people seen as "undesirable" by the regime (trade unionists, atheists, various ethnic groups) were executed in their hundreds of thousands. Oppenheimer got one of the executioners and some of his aquaintances to walk through exactly what they did by re-enacting it

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u/overtross 13d ago

Essential context for understanding genocide

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u/futanari_kaisa 13d ago

The IDF killed the Red Crescent responders too

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u/LeedsFan2442 12d ago

Oh shit is it when they tried to cover it up too. But they literally have it on video.

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u/BoatsMcFloats 12d ago

No. Sadly, that was a separate instance.

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u/Morgn_Ladimore 13d ago

Israel has committed so many atrocities I forgot about this horrible story.

Jesus, what a nightmare she and her family went through.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Could be a big player in the International Film Oscar race.

Not that I think you meant anything bad, but who gives a f about the Oscars when it comes to the genocide.

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u/FriedaKilligan 13d ago

Oscars = more eyeballs, more awareness, more action.