Overview
- NAZA premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a long ovation and won the Special Jury Prize, festival coverage reported on Sunday.
- The film is built from 24 anonymized testimonies from current and former Israeli intelligence and military personnel that describe procedures used in the Gaza war and highlight the use of technological systems to select targets.
- The directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, used their acceptance speech to accuse the United States of funding much of the killing in Gaza, an assertion they presented as their reading of the film's evidence.
- Israel's culture minister Miki Zohar said he would seek to revoke the filmmakers' citizenship and security minister Itamar Ben Gvir publicly denounced the directors, actions that have intensified political pressure against the filmmakers.
- The Israel Defense Forces issued an official rebuttal saying targeting decisions are made by humans not artificial intelligence, a dispute that leaves the film's central technical claims unverified and likely to prompt further investigation and public scrutiny.