On January 29, 2024, the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service received a call from Layan Hamadeh, a very distressed 15-year-old girl who said that the car she and her family were fleeing Gaza City in had been attacked by the Israeli army, and that her parents were dead. "They're shooting at us! We're in a car, and the tank is right next to us!" the girl was heard saying before a burst of gunfire silenced her voice. When Red Crescent operators called the cell phone, it was answered by a six-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, Layan's cousin, who had also been in the car. Terrified, she explained that all the other occupants of the car were dead: her aunt and uncle and her three cousins. Between sobs, she pleaded for rescue: "I'm so scared, please come. Get me out of here." On February 10, after the Israeli army withdrew, Hind's family was able to enter the city and find the car containing the bodies of the girl, her aunt, uncle, and cousins. A subsequent investigation revealed the vehicle had sustained 355 bullet impacts.

When the vast majority of the press and critics accredited at the Venice Film Festival expected the Golden Lion to go to Kaouther Ben Hania –The Tunisian director who shook the Mostra with her denunciation of the genocide in Gaza Voice of Hind Rajab–, the jury chaired by American Alexander Payne has decided to award the gold prize to fellow American Jim Jarmusch, a living legend of American independent cinema who presented in Venice Father mother sister brother, the best film seen on the Mostra screens during the eleven days of the festival.