The little girl’s desperate pleas stopped Kaouther Ben Hania in her tracks.
Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated features “The Man Who Sold His Skin” and “Four Daughters,” was at the airport scrolling through social media in February 2024 when she came across a snippet of 6-year-old Hind Rajab’s emergency call to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society from the month before. There had been an influx of increasingly cataclysmal news out of Gaza, and Ben Hania made efforts to stay as informed as possible, but Hind’s innocent voice devastated her anew.
