The Voice of Hind Rajab, a film recounting the final hours of a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, will open in the UAE this month.
Hind Rajab was killed while stranded in a car, surrounded by the bodies of her relatives, in January 2024.
The film is the latest by award-winning Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania. It will have its public premiere on December 17 at Cinema Akil before opening in Vox and Reel Cinemas across the country on December 18.
The first screening at Cinema Akil will also feature a Q&A with the cast and crew.
The docudrama, which uses the real voice of Hind, won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, where it also received a record 23-minute, 50-second standing ovation after its world premiere, in September.
It has since been screened at festivals across Europe and the Middle East. Last month, the Doha Film Festival opened with an emotional address from Hind's mother, Wissam Hamada.
“Hind is gone, but her voice still wakes me up every dawn,” she told the audience at the Middle East and North Africa premiere of the film.
“My message is not just words – it’s the pain of a mother who lost her daughter, and then found in her universal love a message from God, and understood that my role is to carry the voice of the children of Gaza to the world, the children who live in the heart of war, in darkness, deprived of their most basic rights, of their dreams that are snatched away before they grow up,” she said.
On Monday, the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language at the 2026 Golden Globes.
