On January 29, 2024, Red Crescent volunteers in Gaza received a desperate call from a family trapped in a car under Israeli military fire. Moments later, only six-year-old Hind Rajab remained on the line. As paramedics had been killed in the area days earlier, the Red Crescent needed to navigate a maze of military and governmental approvals before a rescue attempt could even be considered. Hind stayed on the call alone as dispatchers tried to help.

Academy Award–nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania’s urgent and devastating film recreates this emergency as a powerful narrative work using actual call recordings along with scripted re-enactments based on first-hand testimonies and transcripts. Employing a hybrid documentary-fiction approach, what follows is a tense and compelling drama, where the dispatchers juggle protocol, panic, and moral urgency, trying to comfort Hind while negotiating an impossible reality. Even though we know the heartbreaking outcome, Ben Hania builds a testament to a life lost and the people who tried to save her.  

(Tunisia, France, US, UK, Italy, Saudi Arabia / 2025 / Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania)
Unrated / 1 hr 29 mins