NAZA is a codeword euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians it expects will be killed in an airstrike. These days, the murder of women and children is no accident. As interviews with some two dozen serving military operatives make clear, when Israeli missiles are sent into Gaza all potential casualties have been factored in. One Hamas agent is worth 15 NAZA, or more.
Produced by Jonathan Glazer and James Wilson (The Zone of Interest), this investigative documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land) is both restrained and chilling, a sombre, modest but unforgettable and deeply upsetting film that demonstrates how modern technology is not only facilitating mass killings, it’s benumbed the conscience of the killers and maybe the rest of us too.
Didn’t get a ticket? Just want to see it again? NAZA will be returning to the VIFF Centre starting Oct 12.
Content Considerations: The film includes a brief but graphic sequence depicting devastation from a collapsed building
We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv 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 The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. 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.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Special Jury Prize, Venice 2026
UK
2026
In Hebrew and English with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Jonathan Glazer, Joseph Schull, Harriet Gugenheim, Wendy vanden Heuvel
Producer
Harry Davies, Lindsay Poulton, James Wilson
Cinematography
Anonymous, Rachel Szor
Editor
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Harry Davies
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Filmography: No Other Land (2024)
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