{
  "id": 6605033,
  "title": "‘NAZA’ Review: ‘No Other Land’ Directors Return With an Even Bleaker Indictment of the IDF",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/naza-review-no-other-land-directors-return-with-an-even-bleaker",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-10T15:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TheWrap",
    "slug": "thewrap",
    "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/naza-review-israel-gaza-documentary/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In \"NAZA,\" directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, known for their Oscar-winning \"No Other Land,\" return with a film that delves into an even more somber portrayal of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Perched on a Tel Aviv rooftop, an unnamed military systems operator reveals the mission statement of the film: \"We have to describe things as they really are.\" Conveying this grim objective, the film features 24 military technicians and intelligence officers, all of whom are interviewed under shrouds of secrecy to protect themselves from potential legal repercussions.\n\nThe film doesn't adopt the approach of an investigative documentary, but rather it presents the chilling information already surfaced by other media outlets, like The Guardian. Instead, the directors emphasize the chilling details presented in the film, noting that the IDF treats civilian casualties as collateral damage, with the AI program Lavender determining who lives or dies. This formula results in thousands of deaths, making the operators nothing more than office grunts, unworthy of extra attention, yet they are part of a system that the filmmakers are determined to expose.\n\nAs the filmmakers anticipate potential accusations of antisemitism, they have built the film to defuse such attacks. The figures onscreen are not individuals but highly paid hired hands implementing policy. The filmmakers sidestep the debate on morality and instead focus on how the system works. The film starts with the target selection process, describing how the intelligence service outsources the task to an AI program called Lavender, which has a margin of error as high as 15%. Despite this, the operators remain sanguine about the resulting bloodshed.\n\nThe second chapter focuses on the implementation and execution of campaigns. Here, operatives track down targets, with the household being the most reliable place. In the final chapter, the film asks who benefits from the system and answers unambiguously, naming Netanyahu and referring to the Holocaust, which informs everything about the country built post-Holocaust. The directors, being Jewish Israelis, explore a dissonance common to their generation, the inability to believe that the charge \"one has no right to turn away, not to see\" should be expected to include a major exception. The film, produced by Jonathan Glazer, shares the ethos of \"The Zone of Interest\" by exploring the home front and keeping the 'bad stuff' out of sight, yet its quiet appraisal of city life is born of genuine concern.",
  "summary": "Venice Film Festival: Twenty-four anonymous technicians and intelligence officers pull back the curtain on how Gaza's death toll got so high The post ‘NAZA’ Review: ‘No Other Land’ Directors Return With an Even Bleaker Indictment of the IDF appeared first on TheWrap .",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "IndieWire",
        "title": "‘NAZA’ Review: The Israeli Directors of ‘No Other Land’ Illuminate the Mechanics of Genocide in Another Essential Documentary",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/naza-review-the-israeli-directors-of-no-other-land-illuminate-the",
        "published": "2026-09-10T15:15:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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