Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar®-winning directors of No Other Land which won the Folkestone Documentary Festival Audience Award in 2024:
"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.
While filming 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."
- "One of the most important films of our time” - Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
- “An essential, devastating documentary… there’s no turning away from what’s said, you simply can’t unknow what you have heard” - Nicolas Rapold, Sight and Sound
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor / 2026 / 92 mins / certificate TBC / UK, USA, Israel / English & Hebrew with English subtitles
MSA? YOU’RE FU*KED!
As Multiple System Atrophy gradually impacts Kathryn Gilfoy‘s ability to speak, she and her friend Susanna turn the camera towards the disease with honesty, humour and extraordinary tenderness, creating a legacy that celebrates what the illness cannot take away. One woman‘s determination to remain fully present despite a body that refuses to cooperate.
Susanna Howard / Cert 12A / Folkestone / 27 mins / WORLD PREMIERE
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