'NAZA' Naza/The Guardian The first trailer has been released for NAZA, the Israel–Gaza war documentary that picked up the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film’s trailer (below) says the movie features “interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers involved in the remote mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The film’s title comes from an acronym the Israeli military uses as a shorthand for civilian casualties.
In the footage, anonymous soldiers say, “Gaza became like a factory. A factory of targets” and “whatever we do, they deserve it.”
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The project is from directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land) and is executive produced by Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest).
“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. The threats from the Israeli government to revoke our citizenship and the death threats do not change that and will not stop the film. We thank our colleagues for the solidarity and look forward to sharing NAZA all over the world very soon,” Abraham and Szor said in a statement.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s review called the film a “sober and thoroughly documented bombshell of an exposé … which deserves to enter the historical record in the same way as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah … Both works bear witness to acts of genocide — this is the term employed by an IDF officer in the film — and both use a rigorous interview process to get people to speak of the unspeakable, the main difference being that NAZA focuses exclusively on the perpetrators instead of the victims.”
Harry Davies, a Guardian investigations correspondent and a NAZA producer, in his own statement said: “NAZA is grounded in rigorous journalism published over the past three years, but it is also a powerful piece of cinema that will soon be available on screens, large and small, around the world. The initial response from those who’ve seen it shows audiences are engaging deeply with the urgent questions the film raises. We’re working with MK2 and international partners to bring the film to global audiences as soon as possible.”
NAZA will have a theatrical release in the United States starting Oct. 9 followed by a global rollout. The film will afterwards stream on The Guardian website for free.
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