According to the international news agency, three films that
were about the war in Gaza have nominated for the Oscar, including two Israeli
and one Tunisian film. The Tunisian film that received the Oscar nomination is
The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was nominated for best international feature
film.
This documentary drama film by director Kausar Ben Haniya
tells the story of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was
allegedly martyred by Israeli soldiers in Gaza last year. The film dramatizes
the efforts of the staff of the Palestinian Red Crescent, which also includes
audio of the girl’s real phone call in which she is heard pleading for help
among her bereaved family.
The Palestinian Red Crescent alleged that the aid ambulance
was targeted by Israeli forces. The film received strong support from the
pro-Palestinian filmmaking community during the awards season, with renowned
British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer among its co-producers.
The short film “Butcher’s Stain,” made in Israel on the same
subject, was nominated for best live-action short film. The film was directed
by Meyer Levinson Blount, a fellow at Tel Aviv University’s film school, and
revolves around Samir, an Arab butcher living in Tel Aviv.
Who is accused of removing posters of Israeli hostages who
were kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7, 2023, attack and brought to Gaza.
The Arab Muslim teenager has to go through torture, coercion,
and a long legal battle to prove his innocence. The film also previously
featured at the Student Academy Awards.
The second Israeli film to receive an Oscar nomination is
Children No More: Were and Are Gone, also a short film. This documentary, which
won the Hilla Medal, was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. The film
shows a silent protest that began in Tel Aviv in March 2025.
Where protesters hold weekly gatherings carrying pictures of
children killed in Gaza, which over time has grown into a larger symbolic
movement. Several Israeli films submitted for Oscar nominations have been
rejected, with much of the content being mere propaganda and a failed attempt
to prove Israel is humanitarian.
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