{"id":866817,"date":"2026-08-24T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:22:09","slug":"gaza-documentary-produced-by-the-guardian-to-receive-world-premiere-at-venice-film-festival-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866817\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza documentary produced by the Guardian to receive world premiere at Venice film festival | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new documentary about Israel\u2019s bombing campaign in Gaza, directed by Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian is to receive its world premiere at the Venice film festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film, called NAZA, has been produced with Jim Wilson and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer, the team behind The Zone of Interest, and is the only documentary that will compete this year for Venice\u2019s prestigious Golden Lion.<\/p>\n

Abraham and Szor are the two Israeli directors of the four behind No Other Land, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Announcing the news, the film-makers said: \u201cShot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel\u2019s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian added in a statement<\/a> that NAZA is an Israeli military acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike.<\/p>\n

The documentary builds on original investigative reporting between 2023 and 2025 by Israeli-Palestinian publication +972<\/a>, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call<\/a> and the Guardian.<\/p>\n

No Other Land, which was directed by Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal alongside Abraham and Szor, was described as a \u201csombre, sobering work\u201d<\/a> by the Guardian\u2019s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw.<\/p>\n

Shortly after No Other Land\u2019s Oscar win, Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers and briefly arrested<\/a>, following which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a> apologised after failing to name Ballal or the film in a statement of support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new documentary about Israel\u2019s bombing campaign in Gaza, directed by Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-866817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}