The Guardian and the Venice International Film Festival have announced the worldwide premiere of NAZA, a new documentary film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian. The film will receive its world premiere on 10 September.
Only documentary in competition
NAZA is the only documentary feature invited to the Competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Oscar-winning team behind the film
The film is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. It is produced by the Guardian and James Wilson (JW Films), with Jonathan Glazer as executive producer. Wilson and Glazer are the Oscar-winning team behind The Zone of Interest.
Based on investigative reporting
NAZA builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and The Guardian between 2023 and 2025. It is a Guardian production with JW Films, in association with Placeholder Films and Unseen Hand.
An editor’s note explains that the film’s title, NAZA, is a term that appears throughout the documentary. It is a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians expected to be killed in an airstrike.
Yuval Abraham is a filmmaker and investigative journalist. Rachel Szor is a filmmaker and cinematographer. James Wilson is a British film producer and two-time BAFTA winner. Jonathan Glazer is a British filmmaker and winner of a BAFTA, a British Independent Film Award and a César Award. In 2024, their film The Zone of Interest won the Academy Award for best international film.
Guardian Documentaries is committed to telling urgent contemporary stories with unique artistic vision. The team has won critical acclaim, including an Oscar in 2021 for Colette and a 2022 BAFTA Film Award for The Black Cop.
