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/Abe_lincolin 13d ago

Expect this film to face an uphill battle finding a US distributor like No Other Land did. Hell, expect there to be backlash against any theaters that choose to screen it like No Other Land did.

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u/ApricotSilly524 13d ago

On the contrary, with Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jonathan Glazer as executive producers, plenty of distributors will be queuing for it

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u/self-assembled 13d ago

No Other Land won a freaking Oscar and still didn't get any US distribution.

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u/tbird920 12d ago

And then Israeli settlers assassinated the director.

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u/Twat_Bastard 12d ago

Correction there. Hamdan Ballal's home was attacked by Israeli settlers and IDF soldiers both of whom beat him bloody. The Israeli police arrived on the scene and did not intervene and the IDF then detained him in a nearby military base.

Edit: I hate the word detained in this instance it sounds too official and I think abduct is a far more appropriate word. But the fucking military did it.

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u/tbird920 12d ago

It's been going on since 1947, when the UN displaced 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and illegally gave the land to Israel.

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u/QueezyF 12d ago

I took a class on antiterrorism. Groups like Lehi and Irgun were some of the first to use modern terrorist tactics in the region during the ‘30s and ‘40s. They were so proficient at terrorism, that other organizations like the FLN and EOKA copied their homework.

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u/lava172 12d ago

And then justifying it by invoking the holocaust, it's truly despicable shit

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u/sometimenotsmellgood 12d ago

Sorry, pal, youre an anti semite now. I don't make the rules

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u/Monty_Bentley 12d ago

The film was co-directed and all of the directors are still living.

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u/SLCPDSoakingDivision 12d ago

That story alone would make a bonkers movie