Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s (No Other Land, 2024) Venice jury prize winner, filmed over the past three years at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza following the Hamas attacks on 7 October.

In the words of the co-directors:
“We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.”

“An essential, devastating documentary…there’s no turning away from what’s said, you simply can’t unknow what you have heard” – Sight and Sound  

Content note: disturbing scenes, images of real dead bodies.

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