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The Voice of Hind Rajab has been nominated for an Academy Award for best international feature, a recognition for the Tunisian film that features the voice of a 5-year-old girl whose phone call begging for help was heard across the world before she was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The film is a mix of a documentary and drama that weaves in the recordings of Hind’s phone call along with scripted, dramatized scenes of Palestinian Red Crescent dispatchers as they agonized over trying to save her. It was nominated alongside four other films.

“This nomination belongs first to Hind. To her voice. To what should never have happened and yet did,” said director Kaouther Ben Hania, a Tunisian filmmaker, in response to the nomination. Ben Hania is also known for her film The Man Who Sold His Skin, which was nominated for a foreign film Oscar in 2021.

The announcement comes just a week before the second anniversary of Hind’s killing on January 29, 2024.

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