NAZA (15)

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.

Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the film was made out of a sense of obligation to use their position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which their country is responsible.

While filming over the past three years, they found themselves asking the very questions that were asked by their 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 they learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call.

The film explores something deeper than they could in their 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.