Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony on the Lido, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab was widely viewed as the movie to beat. The powerful Gaza-set drama, which tells the story of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl’s desperate pleas for rescue after Israeli forces killed her relatives, received a thunderous 21-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, one of the longest in the Venice Film Festival’s history. Hollywood heavyweights Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón and others boosted the movie’s profile by joining its team as executive producers, while critics hailed it as an “intensely involving and resounding” indictment of Israel’s genocidal campaigns against the Palestinian population.
But nothing was certain until the ceremony was underway on Saturday, thanks to the absurd number of…
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