Desk journal · The ask
Abraham asked for a seat. That is still the politics.
The Venice line is on tape. Everything else — funds, slogans, invented halls — is someone talking over him.
After the Special Jury Prize at Venice, The Guardian published the directors’ remarks. Abraham’s sentence is short enough to lose in a news cycle and stubborn enough to keep: it is important Israelis watch this film. That is not a metaphor and it is not a donation ask. It is an instruction about a hall and a public.
This community site exists because that line is easy to bury. A minister can turn a documentary into a treason file. A comments thread can turn solidarity into a PayPal. A well-meaning site can turn “watch NAZA” into a clip-file of other people’s headlines. None of those things is what he said.
A seat is also a political fact in Israel. The film is not listed on a Tel Aviv timetable we can open. Until a venue prints a time, this desk will not invent one. Demand a screening from a cinema that can publish a schedule. Do not publish the directors’ travel in order to “help.”
Outside Israel the same instruction still holds. San Sebastián and the New York Film Festival dates have passed. On 30 October 2026, IFC Center’s own page and the film’s ticket list at naza.movie/buy-tickets were both still printing New York showtimes, and that ticket list named other U.S. halls. This site does not sell those seats and does not invent a closing date. Buy the ticket where the listing is real.
We will keep writing about the official campaign, the letters, and the footage. We will not let those pages replace the ask. Watch it. Insist others can. That is the whole site in four words.