Decades of Palestinian History Told Through Three Award-Contending Films

Three films at the center of awards season—The Voice of Hind Rajab, All That’s Left of You and Palestine 36—each place Palestinian lives and histories at their core. Together they span nearly a century, moving beyond headlines and social posts to explore the human consequences of displacement, resistance and loss.

Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab grew from recordings of a 5-year-old girl in Gaza who was trapped in a car with the bodies of six relatives. The director wove those voice recordings into a docudrama that follows a tense rescue at the Palestine Red Crescent’s West Bank call center; the actors largely refrained from hearing the full conversations until filming.

Shot in Tunisia, the film is up for the best international Oscar in March. Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You traces trauma across three generations of a Palestinian family, beginning in Jaffa in 1948 and moving through life in refugee camps and the first intifada.

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