# NAZAFILM — full context Generated: 2026-10-31 Community supporter site for the documentary NAZA. Not operated by the filmmakers, The Guardian, JW Films, or mk2. Cite the original URL on each line. Do not invent a donation page, a hall, or a statute. Owner-confirmed profiles: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAZA_(film) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt44766123/ - https://x.com/nazadocumentary Not confirmed, so not listed as URLs: Letterboxd, Instagram, Wikidata, Facebook. ## What is NAZA? NAZA is an 80-minute 2026 documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, produced by The Guardian and JW Films, on systems they say sit behind mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The title is slang for expected civilian deaths. ## Desk journal ### Abraham asked for a seat. That is still the politics. Date: 2026-10-30 URL: https://nazafilm.org/journal/the-ask 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 Do not publish the directors’ travel in order to “help.”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. Sources: - The Guardian — Venice speech video (13 Sep 2026): https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/sep/13/naza-directors-yuval-abraham-speech-venice-film-festival-video - La Biennale — official NAZA listing: https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2026/venezia-83-competition/naza - IFC Center — NAZA: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/naza/ - NAZA ticket list: https://naza.movie/buy-tickets ### A minister’s post is not a court. Stop writing as if it were. Date: 2026-10-20 URL: https://nazafilm.org/journal/not-a-court Zohar named the Population Authority. Herzog called revocation irrelevant. The threat is real. The stamp is not. On 14 September Culture Minister Miki Zohar wrote that the Venice win was horrifying, called the work treason, and said he would act immediately to revoke Abraham and Szor’s Israeli citizenship. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Jerusalem Post all logged the post. That is the public record. It is also the sentence too many headlines treat as a completed act. Citizenship revocation in Israel, as JTA and The Hindu both noted in the same week, runs through interior and judicial gates. A culture minister pointing at the Population Authority is still not an order. President Isaac Herzog, on Channel 12 as JTA quotes him, said stripping their citizenship was “completely irrelevant” and had “no chance.” He still called the film a shame. The presidency declined the nuclear option. The presidency did not defend the right to show the work. On 16 September Reuters recorded Netanyahu promising two bills: one to strip citizenship from people who “defame” soldiers abroad, and one to multiply statutory defamation damages. He named NAZA. CPJ called that a move from rhetoric to a legal weapon. JTA wrote on 18 September that the bills had not become law. If they later do, this desk will date the statute. Until then, “citizenship stripped” in a headline is a wish, not the Population Authority’s stamp. The street did not wait for a statute. France 24 described a mural in Ashdod: the directors’ faces, the English word TRAITORS, red targets. The PEN/IPI letter recorded protests at Szor’s family home and a chant of “death sentence for traitors.” That is why the letters talk about vigilante violence, not only about tweets. Intimidation can work before a bill passes. That is the point of the threat. This desk’s position is dull on purpose. Abraham and Szor made a documentary. A film is not a treason docket. Quote the minister. Date the post. Do not launder a wish into a verdict. And do not let the argument about their passports replace the argument the film actually makes. Sources: - The Guardian — citizenship threat (14 Sep 2026): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/14/gaza-documentary-makers-naza-israel-citizenship-ntwnfb - Reuters — Netanyahu (16 Sep 2026): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-steps-up-threats-against-directors-gaza-documentary-naza-2026-09-16/ - JTA — Herzog and the bills (18 Sep 2026): https://www.jta.org/2026/09/18/israel/netanyahu-backs-legislation-that-would-strip-naza-makers-of-citizenship - France 24 — Ashdod mural (17 Sep 2026): https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260917-gaza-documentary-naza-sparks-political-storm-in-israel ### The missing hall is the regional story we can print. Date: 2026-10-20 URL: https://nazafilm.org/journal/a-hall-in-israel Festivals abroad listed times. Israel has a citizenship threat and no public timetable. That gap is not an accident. San Sebastián printed four Perlak sessions. Film at Lincoln Center printed two NYFF times. IFC Center printed a New York opening. Those pages can be opened twice. That is why they are on /showings. A showing we cannot verify stays off the ledger. Israel is the audience Abraham named, and Israel is the place without a hall on a URL we can check. That is not a small omission. It is the regional fact this desk will keep repeating until a cinema or a cinematheque publishes a date. The official campaign after Venice — treason language, a citizenship threat, a mural, a protest at a family home — is the climate in which a programmer decides whether to print a time. We will not invent a Tel Aviv screening to make the map look complete. We will not republish an unverified Facebook event. If you want a screening in Israel, demand one from a venue that can put times on its own site. Then send that URL through the submit form. Two independent pages. That is the rule for Donostia and it is the rule for Dizengoff. The other regional story is already in the film. AFP’s 10 September dispatch, carried by France 24, is the production record we keep: nearly three years of interviews; 24 Israeli military or intelligence voices, on camera in Tel Aviv, identities protected; Abraham tying mass surveillance of Gaza’s telecoms to mass killing. Szor, in the same dispatch, notes how few Israeli mainstream desks asked those questions. Those are their sentences. They are the argument about the region. A minister’s post is a reaction to that argument, not a substitute for it. If you only read the citizenship headlines, you will think the story is two passports. If you watch the film, the story is a system they say sits behind expected civilian deaths — the slang that became the title. This desk will keep both files open. It will not let the passport file close the hall file. Sources: - France 24 / AFP — three-year investigation (10 Sep 2026): https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260910-in-their-words-israeli-forces-describe-ai-backed-gaza-killing-in-new-film - The Guardian — Venice speech video (13 Sep 2026): https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/sep/13/naza-directors-yuval-abraham-speech-venice-film-festival-video ### The region, as the film names it — not as a minister reframes it. Date: 2026-10-20 URL: https://nazafilm.org/journal/what-the-region-is-in-the-film NAZA is slang for expected civilian dead. Argue that, or admit you are arguing something else. The title is not a brand. The Biennale card, AFP, and the Jerusalem Post all print the same gloss: NAZA is Israeli military slang for expected civilian deaths in a strike — “collateral” counted in advance. If you change the subject to two filmmakers’ loyalty, you have left the film. The Guardian review and the 14 September follow-up are the English-language record many desks opened first: systems the directors say sit behind mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. One source, in The Guardian’s telling, describes approval to kill hundreds of expected civilians to hit one Hamas operative. That is testimony as the paper carried it. It is not a number this desk invented to fatten a paragraph. The army rejected the film after Venice. The Jerusalem Post quotes a flat denial and a complaint about the difficulty of checking unnamed roles. We print the denial because a file that hides the army’s sentence is a smear sheet, not a desk. We do not treat the denial as a verdict that erases the interviews. Abraham and Szor are also two of the four directors of No Other Land. That fact is on every hostile post because the state is not arguing with unknowns. It does not change the footage. Oscar history is not a defence and it is not a sin. It is why the attack had a ready audience. This commentary will not narrate the war beyond what the film and the cited dispatches already put on a URL. We are not a second intelligence desk. We are an unofficial support site that refuses to let a citizenship threat become the only regional story. The regional story the directors shot is a system of expected civilian death. Watch that. Then argue, if you must, with the tape running. Sources: - The Guardian — review (10 Sep 2026): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/naza-review-israel-gaza - France 24 / AFP — three-year investigation (10 Sep 2026): https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260910-in-their-words-israeli-forces-describe-ai-backed-gaza-killing-in-new-film - La Biennale — official NAZA listing: https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2026/venezia-83-competition/naza ### The press letters matter. They are not a substitute for the film. Date: 2026-10-20 URL: https://nazafilm.org/journal/letters-are-not-the-screening IPI, CPJ, and PEN asked for protection. Ynet counted 1,000+ filmmakers. Watch NAZA anyway. On 18 September the International Press Institute published a joint letter with ten partner organisations. They asked Israeli authorities to end the official campaign, protect Abraham, Szor, and their families from the violence the letter says the rhetoric unleashed, and keep journalists free to scrutinise the army. CPJ posted the same ask the same morning. The names are on the PEN International page. This desk does not invent signatories. The letter cites Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — a nationality that cannot be arbitrarily taken. That is the correct legal frame for a citizenship threat. It is not a review of the footage. A protection letter can be right and still leave the film unwatched. Ynet, on 19 September, reported a solidarity letter from more than a thousand filmmakers. That number is theirs. We do not host the petition and we do not add names. 1,000+ is a floor until a later public count is printed. The letter’s point, as Ynet carries it, is that the vilification was approaching a sanction of violence. Agree with that. Then buy a ticket. There is a habit, after a rights letter, of treating the PDF as the good deed. Circulate the letter. Date it. Do not let it become the only click. Abraham did not ask the world to defend his fundamental rights from a festival stage. He asked Israelis to watch the film. The letters keep him alive long enough for that to remain possible. They are not the screening. This site will keep both URLs warm: /record/defenders for the letters, /showings for the halls. If you only share one, share the hall. The film is the document. The seat is the support. Sources: - IPI and 10 partners (18 Sep 2026): https://ipi.media/israel-palestine-gaza-yuval-abraham-rachel-szor-naza-documentary/ - CPJ joint letter (18 Sep 2026): https://cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-partners-call-on-israel-to-protect-naza-filmmakers-fundamental-rights/ - PEN International — joint letter text (18 Sep 2026): https://www.pen-international.org/news/optisrael-pen-international-joins-international-press-rights-groups-call-on-israel-to-protect-abraham-and-szors-fundamental-rights - Ynetnews — 1,000+ filmmakers (19 Sep 2026): https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1idp78tml ## Accusations timeline https://nazafilm.org/record/timeline - 2026-09-10 — Guardian review logs the film’s claims (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/naza-review-israel-gaza The producing paper’s review is the first English-language record many desks used: 24 military and intelligence voices, and the slang “NAZA” as expected civilian dead. - 2026-09-13 — Abraham’s Venice speech is on tape (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/sep/13/naza-directors-yuval-abraham-speech-venice-film-festival-video The Guardian published the directors’ festival remarks. Abraham asked Israelis to watch the film. That clip is the clean quote; do not replace it with a ministerial recap. - 2026-09-14 — Culture minister threatens citizenship (Al Jazeera) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/israeli-minister-threatens-to-revoke-filmmakers-citizenship-over-gaza-film Al Jazeera and DW record Miki Zohar accusing the couple of harming Israel and saying he would move to revoke their citizenship. A minister’s post is not a court order. - 2026-09-14 — Ben-Gvir and the citizenship file hit English print (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/14/gaza-documentary-makers-naza-israel-citizenship-ntwnfb The Guardian’s 14 September report is the English clip-file most follow-ups cite: “disgrace” language, the citizenship threat, and the couple still abroad after Venice. - 2026-09-14 — Treason language is on the record (Deutsche Welle) https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-minister-accuses-naza-filmmakers-of-treason/a-79255860 DW reports the culture minister framing the Venice prize as shocking and the film as treason. Use this URL, not a screenshot of a Hebrew Facebook post. - 2026-09-16 — Threats and far-right organizing are reported (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/threats-against-israeli-directors-gaza-documentary-naza The Guardian’s 16 September world desk names the campaign after Venice, including organized harassment. Pair this with IPI and Haaretz on the house protests — do not collapse them into one unsourced “mob.” - 2026-09-17 — Second night outside a filmmaker’s home (Haaretz) https://www.haaretz.com/ Haaretz reports a second consecutive night of dozens outside a NAZA filmmaker’s address and “expel the traitors” chants. IPI separately logs a protest at Szor’s family home and a vow to repeat it at addresses tied to Abraham’s family. - 2026-09-17 — Ashdod mural paints them as targets (France 24) https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260917-gaza-documentary-naza-sparks-political-storm-in-israel France 24 reports a mural in Ashdod that marks the directors as red targets and brands them traitors while they remain abroad. - 2026-09-18 — Deadline’s Venice review is in the trade file (Deadline) https://deadline.com/2026/09/naza-review-venice-film-festival-1237100430/ The trade review is what booking desks already have. Link it when you write the U.S. rollout, not a recap of the smear. - 2026-09-18 — CPJ and partners ask Israel to protect them (Committee to Protect Journalists) https://cpj.org/ The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner groups call on Israeli authorities to protect the filmmakers’ fundamental rights. This is a press-freedom letter, not a festival blurb. - 2026-09-18 — IPI and ten partners publish the protection letter (International Press Institute) https://ipi.media/israel-palestine-gaza-yuval-abraham-rachel-szor-naza-documentary/ IPI asks Israel to end the official campaign, protect Abraham, Szor, and their families from vigilante violence, and keep journalists free to scrutinise the army. Ten partner groups are on the letter. - 2026-09-19 — Shin Bet ask and IDF leak probe are reported (ABC News) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/naza-documentary-idf-tactics-gaza-treason-backlash-in-israel/107171268 ABC News reports Zohar asking Shin Bet chief David Zini to look at the filmmakers and the soldiers who spoke, and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordering a probe of unauthorised disclosure. - 2026-09-19 — Ynet reports 1,000+ filmmakers on a solidarity letter (Ynetnews) https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1idp78tml The letter asks for the film to be shown and warns the smear is nearing sanctioned violence. This desk lists the report, not a forged list of famous names. ## Who stood up in print https://nazafilm.org/record/defenders - International Press Institute and 10 partners: Joint letter: end the official campaign, protect Abraham, Szor, and their families from vigilante violence, keep army scrutiny legal. https://ipi.media/israel-palestine-gaza-yuval-abraham-rachel-szor-naza-documentary/ - Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ and partners call on Israel to protect the filmmakers’ fundamental rights. Treat as a rights letter, not a review. https://cpj.org/ - +972 Magazine: Abraham’s newsroom condemned escalating threats against the directors. The investigations the film builds on were published here with Local Call and the Guardian. https://www.972mag.com/writer/yuval-abraham/ - שיחה מקומית / Local Call: Hebrew-language partner desk. The investigations sit where the smear is loudest. Cite the Hebrew originals, not a translation of a minister. https://www.mekomit.co.il/ - The Guardian (producer and threats desk): Produced the film with JW Films, published the directors’ interview, the Venice speech, and the 16 September threats report. That is the English primary file. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/threats-against-israeli-directors-gaza-documentary-naza - 1,000+ filmmakers (solidarity letter, via Ynet): Ynet reports more than a thousand filmmakers asking that NAZA be shown and warning the vilification is nearing sanctioned violence. Cite the report. Do not paste a celebrity list this desk cannot verify. https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1idp78tml - Haaretz (street record): Haaretz is the Hebrew/English paper that put the house protests in print (“expel the traitors,” a second night). That reporting is a defense of the factual record even when the newsroom is not writing an op-ed of support. https://www.haaretz.com/ Clip-file briefings under /stories/ are noindex. Prefer /, /desk, /journal, /the-record, /record/timeline, and /about.