Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s Venice jury prize winner NAZA is set to be released theatrically in more than 50 countries and will then stream online for free via The Guardian, which produced the documentary.
Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film documents the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. NAZA is a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike.
As previously announced, NAZA is to receive its North American premiere on September 26 at the New York Film Festival, and will open in US theatres on September 30, launching exclusively at the IFC Center in New York City.
It will expand to Los Angeles and other key markets on October 9, followed by a national rollout.
According to mk2 Films, the film has secured theatrical distributors in 56 territories, although details about these distributors have not been released.
The film has theatrical deals in France, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, Central America, and the Middle East.
The Guardian will make NAZA available for free for global audiences via its website, theguardian.com.
mk2 and The Guardian said the film has been offered to several distributors and cinemas in Israel, and that The Guardian will also be exploring other ways to enable the film to be seen in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli directors Abraham and Szor are two of the four co-directors of 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. James Wilson’s JW Films produced NAZA with The Guardian and it is executive produced by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Glazer.
Abraham and Szor said: “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. The threats from the Israeli government to revoke our citizenship and the death threats do not change that and will not stop the film. We thank our colleagues for the solidarity and look forward to sharing NAZA all over the world very soon.”
Harry Davies, a Guardian investigations correspondent and one of NAZA’s producers, said: “NAZA is grounded in rigorous journalism published over the past three years, but it is also a powerful piece of cinema that will soon be available on screens, large and small, around the world.”
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