Pre-premiere screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab

In cooperation with the distribution company Artcam, we will present The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film by renowned Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania. Don’t miss the pre-premiere screening of this film, adorned with dozens of festival awards, on 27 November 2025 at Kino 35 of the French Institute.

Balancing on the edge between documentary and fiction, the film reconstructs the distress call of six-year-old Hind, who pleads with Red Crescent workers for help. The rescuers try to stay in contact with her and attempt to send an ambulance located only eight hundred metres away. In the heavily shelled Gaza, however, this becomes an insurmountable distance.

This chilling testimony about the limits of humanitarian organisations in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received, among other honours, the Grand Jury Prize. The use of authentic recordings of phone calls between the girl and the rescuers not only gave the film its title but also provided an extraordinarily urgent testimony from a territory abandoned to its fate.

Director and screenwriter Kaouther Ben Hania studied film at the Tunisian EDAC as well as at La Fémis and the Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of the acclaimed feature films Beauty and the Dogs (2017), The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020), and the documentary Zaineb Hates the Snow (2015). Her latest work, Four Daughters (2023), won the Golden Eye for Best Documentary at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film is presented in its original language with Czech and English subtitles.

After the screening, there will be a discussion with Yasar Abu Ghosh, moderated by Veronika Gabrielová (People in Need).

Yasar Abu Ghosh is a social anthropologist at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. His work focuses on the politics of memory, marginal economies, and violence and resistance, particularly in relation to European Roma groups. As a Palestinian who grew up in Prague, he contributes to the public debate on Palestine and Israel. He is one of the contributors to the collective volume If I Should Die, Let It Be a Story (2024).

Tickets for the screening are available via Goout.