"The Voice of Hind Rajab" — Read, Study, & Download The Screenplay by Kaouther Ben Hania
A Story Built From Real Voices, Real Time, and Real Loss.
This screenplay is not imagined. It is reconstructed.
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" is a harrowing real-time dramatization built from actual emergency call recordings made during the siege of Gaza. It unfolds almost entirely through phone lines, dispatch rooms, and desperate voices, following a six-year-old girl trapped in a destroyed car while rescue workers attempt the impossible: to reach her before the world collapses around her.
This is cinema stripped of spectacle and reduced to pure human presence. No score to manipulate you. No edits to save you. Just the sound of a child, the weight of waiting, and the unbearable mathematics of time. For screenwriters, this script is a masterclass in ethical storytelling, sonic tension, narrative restraint, and how to dramatize real events without exploiting them.
This is not entertainment. This is testimony.
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
When Storytelling Becomes Moral Responsibility.
How do you write a story when invention would be immoral?
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" screenplay offers one of the most radical narrative experiments in contemporary cinema: a screenplay constructed almost entirely from real emergency call recordings. No traditional structure. No character arcs. No comforting distance. Just time unfolding, minute by minute, through sound, fear, procedure, and silence.
For students, this script becomes a case study in ethical adaptation, minimalism, sound-driven storytelling, and how form itself can become meaning. It challenges everything we teach about plot, pacing, and catharsis and replaces them with presence, responsibility, and restraint.
This is not just a screenplay. It is an argument about what cinema can be when it refuses to look away.
→ Download the full Educator Breakdown (PDF) for tone analysis, screenwriting takeaways, a Critical Lens module, and a classroom exercise. For the complete screenplay, continue scrolling until you see the button.
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) — Classroom Study
This screenplay challenges almost every convention taught in screenwriting: no character arc; no rising action; no plot turns; no climax; no resolution. And yet, it is unforgettable. Students can study how presence replaces plot, how sound replaces image, and how ethical boundaries reshape form. This is not a how-to script. It is a why-not script.
- When does dramatization become exploitation?
- Is it possible to “adapt” real tragedy without claiming it?
- How does real-time structure affect emotional response?
- What is lost when spectacle is removed?
- Can sound alone sustain narrative tension?
- Should cinema always offer resolution?
- What is the responsibility of the storyteller?
- Can witnessing be a form of storytelling?
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" One Sheet & Script Intel
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. thevoiceofhindrajabfilm.com/
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FYC
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| Version | ... | FinalEnglish |
| Date | ... | 01.06.2026 |
| Pages | ... | 76 |
| Genres | ... | Drama Based on Real Life War |
| Screenplay | ... | Kaouther Ben Hania |
| IMDb ID | ... | 36943034 |
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