NAZA

Genre: documentary, war, investigative journalism
Language: Hebrew, English, subtitles: English
Length: 1 hr. 20 mins. (2026)

Filmed at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, NAZA is built around interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel. Their faces and voices are digitally altered as they describe target selection, surveillance and AI-assisted systems used during the war in Gaza, as well as the civilian casualties they say were anticipated in some strikes. The title refers to Nezek Agavi (“collateral damage”), described in the film as the military term for the expected number of civilian casualties from an air strike.

Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are two of the four filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Rather than relying on battlefield spectacle, they keep the camera largely in Tel Aviv and let the testimonies accumulate, asking how technological distance, bureaucracy and military procedure can affect individual moral responsibility.

NAZA has also become the center of a fierce controversy in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused those behind the film of incitement and antisemitism, while Culture Minister Miki Zohar called for the filmmakers’ citizenship to be revoked; the Israeli military said it would seek to identify soldiers who participated. The filmmakers have received threats, while Israeli human-rights and peace organizations and international film and press-freedom groups have defended their right to make and show the film. 

Reviewers have also raised a separate journalistic question: because all 24 military sources are anonymous, some individual claims are difficult to test independently. The filmmakers say anonymity was necessary to protect their sources and note that much of the underlying reporting had already appeared in The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call. The dispute makes evidence, dissent and accountability part of the context in which NAZA is being received.

Awards
NAZA won the Special Jury Prize at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival.

Reviews
“NAZA puts together a restrained, intelligent, articulate, precise and utterly damning case against Israel’s actions in Gaza and their ongoing actions through the region.” Time Out ★★★★★ 

“During the interviews, there are as many silences as there are words. This eerie calm – punctuated only by the hum of traffic, the whoosh of planes overhead and, once only, by the wail of an air-raid siren – enhances the horror of what is being revealed”. Screen Daily 

“If Abraham and Szor had forced viewers to actually see themselves in those silhouetted people, to understand them as individuals, the shock of it might be even greater than imagining that the rest of us are made of purer stuff.” The Atlantic 

Rotten Tomatoes: 100% – reviews

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Ticket information
This film will be shown at Filmhuis De Zwarte Doos. 

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The screening of the film begins promptly at 19:30 (with no pre-film advertisements), and the cinema hall will open at 19:10. We kindly request that you arrive at the ticket counter at least 10 minutes before the start of the film to ensure a smooth and timely experience for all. 

The Studium Generale film program is created in collaboration with the Student Film Committee and Natlab.