Director Kaouther Ben Hania and cast members of “The Voice of Hind Rajab” were joined by Hollywood actor-producers Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara on Wednesday at the film’s official photocall in Venice.

The true-life drama focuses on telephone operators from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society who tried for hours to reassure trapped six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab as she begged to be rescued from a car under siege in Gaza, where her aunt, uncle and three cousins already lay dead.

After a three-hour wait, the Red Crescent finally got the green light from Israel to dispatch an ambulance to save Hind.

But contact with the girl and the rescuers themselves was cut just after the ambulance finally arrived at the scene.

Actor Saja Kilani, reading out a statement from film team, said, “On behalf of all of us actors and in the name of the entire team, we ask, isn’t it enough? Enough of the mass killing, the starvation, the dehumanization, the destruction, the ongoing occupation. The voice of Hind Rajab does not need our defence. This film is not an opinion or a fantasy. It is anchored in truth. Hind’s story carries the weight of an entire people. Her voice is one amongst tens of thousands of children that were killed in Gaza in the last two years alone. It is the voice of every daughter and every son with the right to live, to dream, to exist in dignity, yet all of it was stolen in front of unblinking eyes. And these are only the voices we know. Behind every number is a story that never got to be told. Hind’s story is about a child crying out ‘Save me’. And the real question is: how have we let a child beg for life? No one can live in peace while even one child is forced to plead for survival. Let Hind Rajab’s voice echo around the world. Let it remind you of the silence that has been built around Gaza. Let it name the genocide that silence protects and let it pierce the words, enough, not tomorrow, not someday, now. For justice, for the sake of humanity, for the future of every child. Enough.”

The film will have its world premiere later in the day at the famous Sala Grande.