Uno of the most significant moments of today’s day to Venice Festival 2025 It was the passage in competition of the Tunisian film The Voice of Hind Rajab, Reconstruction of a news event starring a girl from Gaza trapped in a car under the fire of the Israeli army. To surprise, during the photocall of the film, was the presence, surprisingly, of Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Marawho placed next to the director and the rest of the troupe. Are in fact two of Executive producers of the film together with Brad Pitt and Jonathan Glazer.
Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara at the Venice Festival 2025 for The Voice of Hind Rajab
Married since 2024 and parents of two children, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are a very active couple from a social point of view and environmental. For years, in fact, Joaquin and Rooney have supported Causes related to animal rightsto veganism, to environmentalism and to humanitarianism.
Their commitment is reflected also in the cinema, as executive producers. As in the case of Tunisian film The Voice of Hind Rajab presented this morning in competition. AND The couple did not want to miss his support for the film (and the cause) landing to the beach together with the cast and the crew.
Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara at the photocall of “The Voice of Hind Rajab” in Venice 2025. (Getty Images)
What is the film about The Voice of Hind Rajab
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, the film tells The true story of the death of a six -year -old Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab. Was trapped in a car under Gaza’s fire.
Using the real voice of the little girl, the film It merges fiction and reality and reconstructs the child’s storysurrounded by the corpses of its uncles and cousins, who waited for hours the arrival of the rescue. On the other end of the phone, the rescuers who tried to Treat it and give it support. Welcomed by an ovation to the printing projection – where many critics and journalists came out shocked and in tears, iThe film is also co-produced by other Hollywood stars. As Brad Pitt and the directors Alfonso Cuarón and Jonathan Glazer.
Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara and director Kaouther Ben Hania on the red carpet of “The Voice of Hind Rajab”. (Getty Images)
The words of the director Kouther Ben Hania
Oscar candidate for the best foreign film last year with Four daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania spoke of her movie in a press note a few days ago.
«At the center of this film there is something very simple and very difficult to tolerate. I cannot accept a world in which a child asks for help and nobody raises. That pain, that failure, belongs to all of us. This story does not only concern Gaza. Speaks of universal pain. And I believe that fiction (especially when it draws from verified, painful, real events) is the most powerful tool of cinema. Cinema can keep a memory. Cinema can resist amnesia. May Hind Rajab’s voice be heard».