The last film from the respected Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania floored me: 2023’s Oscar-nominated Four Daughters , a docudrama that followed a grieving mother and her two youngest daughters in the filmmaker’s home country after their two elder sisters had fled the family to join Daesh in Libya. By turns magical and uplifting, and then harrowing and heartbreaking, it’s a low-key masterpiece.

Her follow-up, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival , is no different: The Voice of Hind Rajab , a sensitive and meticulous retelling of a true story, following a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped inside a car under fire in northern Gaza in January of 2024. Searing without ever being sensationalist, this film is a humanist marvel and, without a doubt, deserves this

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