Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix Join Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’, Telling the Story of Six-Year-Old Girl Killed by Israeli Forces After Pleas for Help

New York (Quds News Network)- Hollywood luminaries Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Alfonso Cuaron and Jonathan Glazer are among heavyweights to get behind Gaza drama ‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ ahead of its Venice Film Festival world premiere. The drama tells the story of the six-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces after hours of pleading for help during the genocide in Gaza.

The Oscar winners and Oscar nominee Mara have joined the Tunisian project as executive producers after being impressed by a recent cut of the film.

The film’s end credits reveal that Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B get an In Association credit, as does the UK’s Film4 and Middle East studio MBC.

Among other high-profile public figures to have joined the project as exec producers are journalist turned producer Jemima Khan, Canadian businessman and former Lionsgate founder Frank Giustra, and jewelry designer and socialite Sabine Getty. CAA’s Maha Dakhil gets a ‘producers wish to thank’ credit, according to the Deadline.

The Voice Of Hind Rajab, which heralds from acclaimed Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, is expected to be one of the most powerful and moving films to debut on the Lido where it unspools next week.

The film tells the story of a young Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year along with six of her family members. Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled by Israeli forces, killing her uncle, aunt, and three cousins.

Rajab and another cousin initially survived and contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) by phone from the car seeking aid. The car was later found with Rajab and the paramedics who had come to help all killed by Israeli forces.

The film, which includes the real audio of Hind Rajab before being killed by Israeli forces, will also play at Toronto, San Sebastian, Busan and London film festivals this fall.

Director Ben Hania has said of the project, “The heart of this film is something very simple, and very hard to live with. I cannot accept a world where a child calls for help and no one comes. That pain, that failure, belongs to all of us. This story is not just about Gaza. It speaks to a universal grief. I believe that fiction (especially when it draws from verified, painful, real events) is cinema’s most powerful tool. More powerful than the noise of breaking news or the forgetfulness of scrolling. Cinema can preserve a memory. Cinema can resist amnesia.”