India, June 22 -- Written and directed by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, The Voice of Hind Rajab is a profoundly disturbing and raw film docudrama about an actual tragedy. It's about a scene from January 2024 when five-year-old Hind Rajab was stuck in her car in Gaza City, surrounded by the bodies of her family members, as shelling rained on her.

The film does not tell the story of the battlefield, but rather one small space: the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's emergency dispatch center. This contained environment fills the screen with the murky unfolding of about 90 minutes of tense maneuvers in which operators attempt to get the job done and keep the child in a state of panic, all while maintaining a thin, fragile communicat...