{"id":119034,"date":"2025-09-04T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119034\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:17:07","slug":"a-standing-ovation-wont-bring-hind-back-x-reacts-to-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-being-hailed-in-venice-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119034\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A standing ovation won\u2019t bring Hind back\u2019 \u2014 X reacts to The Voice of Hind Rajab being hailed in Venice – Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some cried, others chanted \u201cFree Palestine\u201d, everyone was on their feet, applauding Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s film The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday. The film, which shows the last moments of six-year-old Hind Rajab from inside the response centre of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society before she was killed by Israeli fire<\/a> in January 2024, received a record 22-minute standing ovation<\/a> at its premiere on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Using actual recordings of Hind\u2019s voice, the movie paints a picture of the response centre as the little girl begged to be rescued after members of her family were killed in front of her. Vogue<\/a> called the film a \u201chumanist marvel\u201d, IndieWire<\/a> called it a \u201ctender and devastating elegy\u201d and New York Magazine<\/a> said it was \u201cthe most powerful film at Venice.\u201d<\/p>\n

People who saw the film had very similar things to say about it being gut-wrenching, hard to watch and devastating.<\/p>\n

Alex Ritman, Variety\u2019s London bureau chief, said the film broke him and everyone else present.<\/p>\n

Turkish Member of Parliament M\u00fc\u015ferref Pervin Tuba Durgut joined netizens in remembering Hind\u2019s story and demanding an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Director Ben Hania said<\/a> the film was particularly important to her because she believed \u201ccinema can give powerless or disempowered people a face and a voice\u201d. She said Hind\u2019s voice wasn\u2019t just that of a little girl; it was the voice of all of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Actor Saja Kilani spoke<\/a> at the premiere, asking, \u201cHow did we let a child beg for survival, for help?\u201d She said there was no acting in The Voice of Hind Rajab, \u201cIt was simply being a decent human being.\u201d Her co-star, Motaz Malhees, was praised for his role in the film and how he held up the Palestinian flag while receiving applause at the screening.<\/p>\n

The applause itself was the talk of the town, as some poked fun at Israelis who undoubtedly wouldn\u2019t be pleased at the reception this film is getting.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all pats on the back, though \u2014 some people questioned the impact of the film as the war on Gaza enters its 699th day.<\/p>\n

The Story of Hind Rajab is Tunisian \u2014 it\u2019s Tunisia\u2019s entry to the Academy Awards this year \u2014 but also has Hollywood stars Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as executive producers alongside filmmakers Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Jonathan Glazer. The American connection did not sit well with many, who called out Hollywood for its complacency.<\/p>\n

As Hind\u2019s tiny voice echoes through Venice, the Israeli Defence Forces continue their killing spree in Gaza, having bombed, shelled, shot and starved over 63,000 people<\/a> to death. Hind\u2019s mother, who hopes<\/a> her daughter\u2019s memory will help end the war, continues to live through the horror as a widow after her husband was killed<\/a> in July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some cried, others chanted \u201cFree Palestine\u201d, everyone was on their feet, applauding Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-119034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}