DUBAI: Gaza documentary \u201cNAZA,\u201d directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has won the Audience Award for Best European Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival, following its Venice premiere, where it received the Special Jury Prize.<\/p>\n
The award came as the film made its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, where Abraham used a post-screening Q&A to address the US government\u2019s support for Israel and its military campaign in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to see this film at this moment, as you were saying, because these older officials are talking about what is being done with taxpayer money from people sitting here,\u201d Abraham told the NYFF audience. \u201cThis is what your country is supporting and funding \u2026 Part of the goal (of this film) is to make denial of what\u2019s going on in Gaza harder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abraham and Szor, who previously co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cNo Other Land\u201d alongside Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, have described \u201cNAZA\u201d as an examination of the systems behind Israel\u2019s bombing of Gaza and the killing of Palestinian civilians. The film is based on testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military whistleblowers who accuse the army of widespread killing of civilians in Gaza with the use of artificial intelligence-powered targeting systems.<\/p>\n
The San Sebastian recognition adds to the documentary\u2019s festival run, which has included a Special Jury Prize at Venice and a major reception at its premiere. \u201cNAZA\u201d is set for a US theatrical release beginning at New York\u2019s IFC Center, before expanding to other cities.<\/p>\n
Abraham said Thursday that the documentary will be made available online for free in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI: Gaza documentary \u201cNAZA,\u201d directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has won the Audience Award for Best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-358115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}