NAZA, the latest documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, brings together testimonies from 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers who describe systems used to monitor and target Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Filmed through a series of secret nighttime conversations on rooftops in Tel Aviv, the documentary explores the mechanisms behind military surveillance and targeting while raising questions about human responsibility in the age of warfare technology.
Anonymous testimonies
At the centre of the film are 24 former members of Israeli military intelligence services.
To protect their identities, their appearances and voices have been digitally altered.
Their testimonies are accompanied by hand-drawn diagrams illustrating the systems they worked with, offering what the filmmakers describe as a rare view from inside the military apparatus.
Rather than focusing on isolated incidents, the documentary examines the broader operation of a system in which technology, military structures and human decisions are directly linked to the consequences of war for civilians.
Gaza through absence
One of the film's distinctive choices is that the camera never leaves Tel Aviv.
While daily life continues in the Israeli city, Gaza, located around 60 kilometres away, never appears directly on screen.
Instead, the reality of the war emerges through the accounts of those involved in surveillance and targeting operations.
Through this approach, the directors seek to highlight the distance between the places where military decisions are made and the places where their consequences are felt.
A military term under scrutiny
The title NAZA derives from a Hebrew military acronym referring to "collateral damage".
According to the filmmakers, the term functions as a linguistic mechanism that obscures the deliberate and calculated nature of civilian deaths.
The documentary examines how military language frames human loss and explores the relationship between language, responsibility and decision-making.
The filmmakers describe events in Gaza as genocide, presenting their own perspective on the nature and consequences of the military operations.
From No Other Land to a new investigation
NAZA is the latest work by Abraham and Szor, who were part of the directing team behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
The film is produced by Guardian Documentaries, with Jonathan Glazer, director of The Zone of Interest, serving as executive producer.
It is based on investigative reporting conducted in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call.
The documentary was selected for screening at the Venice Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
Screening schedule at Pantheon
Double screenings at 6pm and 8.30pm:
- 13 November 2026
- 14 November 2026
- 20 November 2026
- 21 November 2026
Screenings at 8.30pm:
- 15 November 2026
- 17 November 2026
- 18 November 2026
- 19 November 2026
- 22 November 2026
- 24 November 2026
- 25 November 2026
The film will be shown with Greek and English subtitles.
