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Abraham and Szor: life in Tel Aviv going on ‘is also an act of violence’
Briefing from El País. Original reporting stays with the outlet.
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The directors tell El País how NAZA uses 24 military and intelligence testimonies to show remote killing systems, and why they filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops.
El País, as briefed here, is the directors in their own words: NAZA uses 24 military and intelligence testimonies to show remote killing systems, and they filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops.
Variety’s Venice interview on this site adds that whistleblowers were digitally disguised. Screen Daily describes an 80-minute competition film arranged in chapters, executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer.
World Screen’s clip notes the title itself: NAZA is military slang for collateral damage. The production credits already listed here are The Guardian, JW Films, and mk2 for sales.
The rooftop method is why the film can exist as cinema and still be treated as a security leak. Abraham and Szor are asking Israeli viewers to look at a system, not a festival scandal. Read El País for the interview; this is only our context.
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