NAZA

Van de Israëlische filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, comes NAZA: a penetrating investigation into the war in Gaza and the systems behind the large-scale death of Palestinian civilians. “We made this film from the responsibility we feel as Israelis to investigate the systems behind the mass death of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible,” Abraham and Szor state. “With this film we can go deeper than in our investigative journalism: not only looking at what is said, but also at what is not said. At the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.” Filmed during the night hours on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, Abraham and Szor investigate the decision-making and mechanisms behind Israeli bombings of Gaza. The title refers to a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the expected number of civilian casualties of an airstrike. From their position as Israelis, the filmmakers ask a fundamental and uncomfortable question: how can a society allow the dehumanization of another group of people, and what mechanisms make that possible? The film builds on journalistic research by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call from the period 2023–2025. Na No Other Land, Abraham and Szor now explicitly turn their gaze to their own Israeli society. NAZA is a confrontational film about war and dehumanization, but above all about responsibility and the necessity to break the silence.