MK2 Films Boards Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Venice Doc ‘NAZA’
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- MK2 Films boarded NAZA, the new documentary from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the 2024 Oscar winner "No Other Land."
- The Guardian produced the 77-minute film alongside James Wilson (JW Films), with Jonathan Glazer — the Oscar-winning team behind "The Zone of Interest" — serving as executive producer.
- NAZA will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) on September 10 at 5:15 pm, in the presence of the directors and a Guardian delegation.
- Shot at night on Tel Aviv rooftops, the film reveals in detail, per its synopsis, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
- The title "NAZA" is a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to denote the expected number of civilians killed in an airstrike.
- MK2 CEO Nathanaël Karmitz and MD Fionnuala Jamison cited the film's cinematic form and journalistic rigor, saying it fits mk2's mission to use cinema as a tool to confront difficult truths.
Why it matters: MK2's acquisition gives a Guardian-produced, Oscar-adjacent documentary a heavyweight international sales platform and a Sala Grande Venice slot — the festival's most prestigious screening room. Pairing the No Other Land directors with The Zone of Interest producers positions the film as an awards-season contender, while its core revelation — that Israeli intelligence euphemistically calculates expected civilian deaths per airstrike — makes it a documentary that could travel on controversy as much as craft.
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