Kaouther Ben Hania
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Like the riveting docudramas of Paul Greengrass (“United 93,” “Captain Phillips,” “The Lost Bus”), “The Voice of Hind Rajab” unfolds in something close to real time with re-enactments enhanced for dramatic effect.
The effect is somewhat similar to Paul Greengrass’ United 93.
…something like Paul Greengrass’s United 93, another re-enactment about a real-life tragedy, is a better touchstone…
…en un ejercicio símil a la cinta The Guilty…
…adopta un enfoque similar a El culpable (Möller, 2018)…
The single location thriller, told from the point of view of the emergency response phone operators, is a proven technique which has already been used to powerful effect in films such as Gustav Moller’s The Guilty…
Adding to that visual texture is a morbid humour, akin to Michael Lehmann's Heathers or Mary Harron's American Psycho , that undercurrents Sam's dark and twisted journey and Mahayni ensures the audience never loses affection for him.
A House of Dynamite (2025)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Visuals Themes
…its approach in this sense is not so different from Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, which played the day before…
In some odd way, The Voice of Hind Rajab bears some surface similarities to another explosive picture at this festival, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite. Both follow groups of well-trained professionals struggling to play their roles within a regimented system while also contending with their humanity. And ultimately, both films are about helplessness.
Ben Hania stages the film like a claustrophobic thriller, similar in tone and scope to another great recent movie, director Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5.” This movie, like that one, consolidates all the action in one office, reliant on technology but also paralyzed by it, too far away to be anything other than a reassuring voice on the other end of the phone.
Tim Fehlbaum’s portrayal of the ABC newsroom as it dealt with the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics in “September 5,” for example.
Like Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour documentary Shoah, the point of The Voice of Hind Rajab is not to entertain but to force us to bear witness.
Schindler's List (1993)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Themes
As important as a masterpiece like “Schindler’s List” was in the history of Holocaust cinema, it came decades after the end of World War II, in which there was some distance from the memory of the material.
Captain Phillips (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Visuals
Like the riveting docudramas of Paul Greengrass (“United 93,” “Captain Phillips,” “The Lost Bus”), “The Voice of Hind Rajab” unfolds in something close to real time with re-enactments enhanced for dramatic effect.
Much like Pascal Plante did with chatroom horror Red Rooms…
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
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The final moments land on a pure documentarian note that is reminiscent of how Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest concludes at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, evoking similar feelings but with one major difference.
Like 2024’s equally bleak No Other Land, the film broadly shows how rigged the system is against Palestine…
If you watch documentaries like “Uvalde Mom” (2025)…
American Sweatshop (2025)
Directed by Uta Briesewitz
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
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Uta Briesewitz achieved when she stepped into the offices of an online content moderator agency in American Sweatshop…
…twenty-four-minute film “Hind Under Siege” from Palestinian Jordanian filmmakers are also about the titular Palestinian girl…
The thirty-two minute “Close Your Eyes Hind” (2025) from Syrian Dutch filmmaker Amir Zaza…
Like the riveting docudramas of Paul Greengrass (“United 93,” “Captain Phillips,” “The Lost Bus”), “The Voice of Hind Rajab” unfolds in something close to real time with re-enactments enhanced for dramatic effect.
Three films about Palestine were submitted for the International Oscar this year, one from Palestine ("Palestine 36"), one from Jordan ("All That's Left of You") and this one from Tunisian writer/director Kaouther Ben Hania…
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Characters
Their escalating confrontations, which include Omar using a felt pen to write on Mahdi’s window (a la Jessica Chastain’s character in “Zero Dark Thirty”) the amount of time Hind has been waiting, border on melodramatic.
Ben Hania gets in some funny jabs at the contemporary art world, of course, but we’re a long way away from the constantly smart and acerbic takes on that milieu from films such as Palme d’Or winner The Square or Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals.
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
influenced The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
That it lost the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival to the pretentiously boring Father Mother Sister Brother is possibly a reflection of what’s to come this awards season.