India, Nov. 15 -- This is a film intended to be discomfiting and emotionally devastating. Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, who achieved her breakthrough with the hybrid feature Four Daughters (securing an Oscar nomination), continues to blur the lines between drama and documentary with her latest film. Here, the results have a crushing impact.

The Voice of Hind Rajab recounts the devastating real-life story of the titular six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in the Israel-Gaza war in January 2024. The film is told from the perspective of Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers, where we listen to the actual phone call recordings of Hind as she pleads and cries for help.

It is Motaj Malhees' Oman, one of the young male voluntee...