{"id":179502,"date":"2025-08-27T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179502\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:42:12","slug":"brad-pitt-joaquin-phoenix-join-gaza-drama-the-voice-of-hind-rajab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179502\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Join Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBrad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix are among the Hollywood stars who have boarded Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s Gaza-set drama\u00a0\u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab\u201d as executive producers ahead of the movie\u2019s Venice Film Festival<\/a> premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso joining the film are \u201cRoma\u201d filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, Rooney Mara, \u201cThe Zone of Interest\u201d director Jonathan Glazer and Pitt\u2019s Plan B producing partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Their support will help to boost the profile of \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab,\u201d which will host its premiere on the Lido on Sept. 3 before making its North American debut at Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten and directed by Ben Hania, \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab\u201d tells the story of a 6-year-old girl named Hind Rajab who was left stranded in a car that had been attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza and was later found dead. The film uses voice recordings between Hind Rajab and the Red Crescent volunteers who got the emergency call and try to keep her on the line to get an ambulance to her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt the heart of this film is something very simple, and very hard to live with. I cannot accept a world where a child calls for help and no one comes. That pain, that failure, belongs to all of us. This story is not just about Gaza. It speaks to a universal grief,\u201d the writer-director said in a statement about the film. \u201cAnd I believe that fiction (especially when it draws from verified, painful, real events) is cinema\u2019s most powerful tool. More powerful than the noise of breaking news or the forgetfulness of scrolling. Cinema can preserve a memory. Cinema can resist amnesia. May Hind Rajab\u2019s voice be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBen Hania\u2019s other work include two Oscar-nominated films: \u201cFour Daughters,\u201d a 2023 drama about a family that\u2019s split apart after two children leave to join Daesh fighters in Libya, and \u201cThe Man Who Sold His Skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ongoing war in Gaza is expected to be in the spotlight at the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday. Along with \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab,\u201d a pro-Palestinian demonstration planned by local activists will be held later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix are among the Hollywood stars who have boarded Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s Gaza-set drama\u00a0\u201cThe…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,30989],"class_list":{"0":"post-179502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115100316137434322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}