Overview
- The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday and drew a record 24–25 minute standing ovation from the Sala Grande audience.
- NAZA compiles secret, anonymized testimony from 24 current and former Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers filmed over roughly three years on Tel Aviv rooftops.
- Interviewees describe large-scale surveillance, telecom monitoring and an AI-assisted system called “Lavender” that they say helped identify assassination targets in Gaza.
- The Israel Defense Forces has rejected the film’s core allegation of a policy to deliberately kill civilians and says AI tools are analytic aids that require human review before any strike.
- Produced with The Guardian and JW Films and executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer, the 80-minute documentary is in competition at Venice and is likely to prompt further journalistic, legal and political scrutiny given the anonymized sourcing and contested casualty figures.