When Kaouther Ben Hania’s “ The Voice of Hind Rajab ” premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the ovation lasted nearly 25 minutes. The Tunisian director, whose two previous films — “The Man Who Sold His Skin” and “Four Daughters” — were Oscar nominated — stood before an audience that knew it had witnessed something more than a movie, perhaps even a reckoning.

The docudrama, which is Tunisia’s official submission for international feature at the Academy Awards, centers on a single, haunting voice: that of a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a car in Gaza, surrounded by the bodies of her family. Over the course of the film’s 90 minutes, Ben Hania reconstructs a real-life 2024 tragedy through the final recorded phone calls between Hind Rajab and the Red Crescent workers who tried to reach her

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