About a year and a half after winning an Oscar for “No Other Land,” Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are returning with a new documentary about the war in Gaza. The film, titled “NAZA,” was added Monday to the official competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, where it will have its world premiere on Sept. 10.
According to the festival announcement, “NAZA” was filmed at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv and seeks to expose the mechanisms behind what its creators describe as “the mass and calculated killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by Israel.” The film is based on investigations Abraham published between 2023 and 2025 in the Israeli news site Local Call, the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972 and The Guardian.
The film’s title comes from the Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage,” a term referring to uninvolved civilians who could be harmed in a strike not directed at them. According to The Guardian, the term appears throughout the film and is used to describe the number of civilians intelligence officials estimate could be killed in an airstrike.
A scene from 'No Other Land'
(Photo: Rachel Szor, 'No Other Land')
The film was produced by The Guardian’s documentary division and British producer James Wilson. British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who won the Academy Award for best international feature with Wilson for “The Zone of Interest,” is also among the producers.
“NAZA” will be the only documentary among the 21 films competing in Venice’s main competition this year.
Abraham and Szor were two of the four filmmakers behind “No Other Land,” alongside Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. The film, which documented the struggle of Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta against the demolition of their homes and their displacement, won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature after a successful festival run that began at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Yuval Abraham on the Oscars stage
(Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
According to the official announcement, Abraham and Szor are expected to attend the Venice screening alongside the film’s producers and journalists from The Guardian. The festival will run from Sept. 2 to Sept. 12.