As well as exhibiting a replica of the car in which Hind and her family were murdered on Saturday, we showed a short film, Hind Under Siege 24β, made by Jordanian filmmakers (Fajrona Art Production) and completed in 2025.
We had three screenings at Union Street Collective at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, each with a comfortable-size audience and a total of 65 viewers, who were welcomed with tea/coffee and an organic Palestinian date βΊοΈ.
There was a sense, across the two parts of the event: outside the car, clearly riddled by βbulletβ holes, alongside the excellent contextual photo and messages exhibition, and the important one-to-one conversations between activists and passers-by; and the film, inside the Hub, and inviting viewers into Hindβs experience inside the car. The silence at the end of each screening was palpable and although we hadnβt planned any kind of βformalβ discussion, after several silent minutes, we invited people to speak, if theyβd like to.
The Hub space proved to be beautifully conducive to quiet and reflective conversation. We were lucky that Mohammad Amar and Khalid Mahmoud, who devised and built the replica car, attended the first screening and participated in the conversation, sharing their extraordinary compassion and their commitment to touring the car to many UK cities and communities.
The second screening took a more βdiscursiveβ turn, acknowledging the different contexts of Hind Under Siege, with its Jordanian Royal Film Commission support and its exceptional child actor, and the Tunisian/French, Oscar-nominated feature film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, that we had recently seen at the Showroom Cinema, which featured only the actual recording of the phone conversation between Hind and the Red Crescent office, which was situated not in Gaza but in Ramallah, and the distraught experience of the emergency responder team members who could do nothing to help Hind through her last long hours alone in the car, before she was brutally killed by IOF members.top photo showing Mohammed β¦ and Khalid β¦ in conversation after the first screeningbottom photo – the second screening
