Naza

<div>The title <i>Naza</i> refers to a military intelligence acronym used to indicate the number of civilians expected to be killed in an airstrike.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Cloaked in darkness on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham conducts shattering one-on-one interviews with Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel. This documentary investigation by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is a deep dive into the systems and technologies underpinning Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. Following their Oscar-winning film <i>No Other Land,</i> Abraham and Szor turn their attention to how these systems of remote surveillance and mass killing operate, seeking to grasp the horrific scale of civilian deaths.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Naza</i> premiered and won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival 2026.</div></div><div><div><br></div><div><b>In the words of the co-directors:</b></div></div><div><div>“We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by <i>The Guardian</i> (one of NAZA's producers), in collaboration with reporting partners <i>+972 Magazine</i> and <i>Local Call.</i> The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.”</div><div><br></div><div>"A chilling, essential documentary… Once you’re done listening, you have the feeling you simply can’t unknow what you’ve heard... A rebuke to both official Israeli denials and international silence and complicity."&nbsp;<i>- BFI Sight and Sound Magazine</i></div><div><br></div><div><b>Please Note: </b>This documentary contains distressing footage depicting partial sight of dead bodies, including children and young people buried under rubble following a bombing in Gaza, Palestine.&nbsp;</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Rated 15. ID may be requested and anyone without ID or under this age will be turned away.&nbsp;</b></div><div>Presented in Hebrew and English, with English subtitles for non-English dialogue.</div>DocumentaryPT1H17M152026-11-01USen
Yuval Abraham
Rachel Szor
James Wilson
Lindsay Poulton
Harry Davies
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