No Other Land directors on interviewing 24 Israeli soldiers in secrecy

Variety’s Venice interview, as we summarize it, is Abraham and Szor on making NAZA: 24 Israeli soldiers interviewed in secrecy, digital disguise of whistleblowers, and what they call calculated mass killing of civilians in Gaza.

The official Biennale listing on this site carries their statement that they made the film from an obligation, as Israelis, to examine systems behind mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

Reviews already clipped here (Guardian, Deadline, Vulture, Screen Daily) repeat the same spine: anonymous intelligence voices, elastic “NAZA” civilian-death numbers, and the Lavender targeting program first published by +972, Local Call, and The Guardian.

Vulture’s briefing adds Rachel Szor reminding Venice that Palestinian journalists had already reported the facts. Variety is the making-of interview; those reviews are the reception. Go to Variety for the conversation itself.