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The Venice Film Festival has made a last-minute addition to its competition lineup: “Naza,” a new documentary from “No Other Land” directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
The doc, which was shot at night on the rooftops
of Tel Aviv, shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” according to its official synopsis.
“Naza” is produced by The Guardian and James Wilson of JW Films, and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer. Wilson and Glazer also worked on 2023’s “The Zone of Interest” together, which won the Oscar for best international feature.
Abraham and Szor are two of the four co-directors of 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land.” That film, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival, showed the destruction and displacement of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the West Bank.
“Naza” will screen at Venice Film Festival on Sept. 10 at 5:15 p.m. in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema, in the presence of the directors, producers, Guardian journalists and the official delegation.
The film is the only documentary included in this year’s Venice competition section. It joins a starry lineup including Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” Danny Boyle’s “Ink,” Casey Affleck’s “Company,” Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Look Back,” Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine,” Florian Zeller’s “Bunker” and more. It marks Abraham and Szor’s first time competing for Venice’s Golden Lion, which will be awarded at the closing ceremony on Sept. 12.
The 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival kicks off Sept. 2.
