{"id":226788,"date":"2026-03-13T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-tunisian-directors-devastating-film-about-palestine-is-up-for-an-oscar\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:06:53","slug":"tunisia-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-tunisian-directors-devastating-film-about-palestine-is-up-for-an-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-tunisian-directors-devastating-film-about-palestine-is-up-for-an-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: The Voice of Hind Rajab &#8211; Tunisian Director&#8217;s Devastating Film About Palestine Is Up for an Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36943034\/?ref_=ttawd_ov_i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voice of Hind Rajab<\/a> made an immediate impact when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025, receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/sep\/03\/the-voice-of-hind-rajab-gets-23-minute-ovation-at-venice-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23-minute standing ovation<\/a> and seven awards. More were to follow as it played at festivals around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">It&#8217;s a mixture of documentary and drama that tells the story of a Palestinian girl trapped in a car during the conflict with Israel. Its writer and director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4141599\/?ref_=tt_ov_1_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaouther Ben Hania<\/a>, is from Tunisia. <a href=\"https:\/\/press.oscars.org\/news\/98th-oscarsr-shortlists-12-award-categories-announced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nominated<\/a> for a 2026 Oscar in the Best International Feature Film category, this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voice of Hind Rajab made an immediate impact when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025, receiving a 23-minute standing ovation and seven awards. More were to follow as it played at festivals around the world. It&#8217;s a mixture of documentary and drama that tells the story of a Palestinian girl trapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":226789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,5095,8598,7824,51956,257,22250,20432,23942,254,4703,653,6932,10858],"class_list":["post-226788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-devastating","tag-directors","tag-film","tag-hind","tag-news","tag-oscar","tag-palestine","tag-rajab","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian","tag-voice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}