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NAZA

Venezia 83 Competition
Director:
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Production:
The Guardian, JW Films (Jim Wilson)
Running Time:
80’
Language:
Hebrew, English
Country:
United Kingdom
Sound:
Lars Ginzel, Benjamin Hörbe, Rob Farr

Synopsis

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.

Directors’ statement

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.

Production/Distribution

PRODUCTION 1:
The Guardian - Harry Davies, Lindsay Poulton
90 York Way
London N1 9GU, United Kingdom
Web: http://www.theguardian.com/documentaries
Social Media: @guardian - Instagram, The Guardian - LinkedIn, The Guardian - YouTube

PRODUCTION 2:
JW Films - James Wilson

WORLD SALES:
mk2 - Fionnuala Jamison
E-mail: intlsales@mk2.com
Web: http://www.mk2films.com
Social Media: @mk2films - Instagram

PRESS OFFICE:
Claudia Tomassini and Carsten Siebert
claudiatomassini associates International Film Publicity
E-mail: press@claudiatomassini.com


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