Venice Film Festival adds Gaza doc ‘NAZA' to competition lineup
- The Venice Film Festival has added a documentary titled 'NAZA' to its competition lineup.
- The film focuses on the civilian toll of the Israel-Hamas war and was shot on Tel Aviv rooftops.
- 'NAZA' is co-directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who previously worked on the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land.'
- The documentary is the only one competing for the Golden Lion award at the festival.
- Production of 'NAZA' was completed shortly before the outbreak of the current conflict on October 7, 2023.
The Venice Film Festival has added a new documentary about the civilian toll of the Israel-Hamas war to its lineup. 'NAZA,' from two of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' will screen in the main competition, festival organizers said Monday.
According to the synopsis, the film was shot at night on Tel Aviv rooftops and focuses on the killings of Palestinian civilians. Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor co-directed 'Naza,' which was produced by The Guardian and filmmakers behind 'The Zone of Interest.' It's the only documentary competing for the Golden Lion award.
Abraham and Szor were two of the four directors of the 2025 best documentary winner 'No Other Land,' the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military. A collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, it was made over four years between 2019 and 2023, wrapping production days before Hamas launched its deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that started the war in Gaza.
威尼斯电影节将加沙纪录片《NAZA》纳入竞赛阵容
威尼斯电影节将一部关于以色列-哈马斯战争对平民影响的新纪录片纳入其阵容。节日组织者周一表示，《NAZA》将作为主竞赛影片放映，该片由获得奥斯卡奖的纪录片《无其他土地》的两位制片人制作。
根据影片简介，该片在特拉维夫的屋顶上夜间拍摄，聚焦于巴勒斯坦平民的杀戮。以色列导演尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕和瑞秋·索尔共同执导《NAZA》，该片由《卫报》和《兴趣区》背后的制片人制作。它是唯一一部竞争金狮奖的纪录片。
亚伯拉罕和索尔是2025年最佳纪录片获奖影片《无其他土地》的四位导演之一，该片讲述了巴勒斯坦活动家为保护社区免受以色列军方拆迁而斗争的故事。这是一部以色列和巴勒斯坦导演合作的作品，制作历时四年，时间从2019年到2023年，在哈马斯于2023年10月7日对以色列发起致命攻击、引发加沙战争前几天完成制作。