Travelling one afternoon in a car with family, the car was fired upon, and Hind was the only one to survive. She was then trapped for hours in the wreckage, squeezed against the bodies of her relatives, and hoping to be rescued. Heart-wrenching recordings of phone conversations between the terrified girl and Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers have been used as the basis of this film. Director Kaouther Ben Hania is no stranger to the Oscars, having been nominated for ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ (2020), and ‘Four Daughters’ (2024). But her latest work – which numbers Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonathan Glazer and Alfonso Cuarón among its executive producers – will have a greater impact than anything she has done before.