The Sotto Voce Plea That Will Haunt the World Forever: the Voice of Hind Rajab

Photograph Source: Lua Eva Blue – CC BY 4.0

The 2025 cinematic experience was a long and virtually forgettable season. The kind of year that makes cinephiles like me slip into an artistic malaise when contemplating the future of motion pictures. But no matter how disillusioned or inspired I feel, it is always difficult for me to recount the first film I saw, at the start of a calendar year, by the time December and the arctic wind blow into New York’s independent theatres. An ongoing lapse...