MK2 has boarded NAZA, the latest feature from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli directors of the four co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
The film has been produced by the news outlet The Guardian alongside James Wilson (JW Films) and executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer. Wilson and Glazer are the Oscar-winning team behind The Zone of Interest.
The film will debut at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where it will screen in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) on 10 September at 5.15 pm, in the presence of the directors, the producers, Guardian journalists and the official delegation.
The film’s synopsis reads: “Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza”.
The title NAZA appears throughout the documentary, and we understand it is a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. The feature runs 77 minutes.
Discussing the title, Nathanaël Karmitz, CEO of mk2, and Fionnuala Jamison, Managing Director of mk2 Films, said: “Beyond the power of its testimonies and the rigor of its journalistic approach, the film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor struck us for the cinematic excellence of its form. The intelligence of its direction resonates deeply with mk2’s history as a film company whose mission has always included giving audiences, through cinema, the keys and tools to confront the truth of the world we live in, however difficult that truth may be.”
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