“A reminder of the singular power of eyewitness testimony and how the act of speaking about our lives is one way we collectively try to make sense of the past, present and future. We speak, and hope that others listen.” - Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“The spare, focused style of NAZA has a grim, artful beauty, all in service of the subject matter. The results are impossible to shake.” - Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
“What the filmmakers of NAZA make disturbingly clear is that the simplest machinery to spread dehumanization and death is happening now, easing its users into acceptance and rewriting everything about the moral cost of conflict. It’s stone-cold frightening.” - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Two of the directors behind the Oscar-winning 2024 documentary NO OTHER LAND, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, return with this chilling and essential account of a genocide in progress. In secret conversations held at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the people who designed and operated the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza reveal their inner workings. Produced by the Guardian and drawing on its reporting and that of other outlets, NAZA features testimony from 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians during the war in Gaza.
Directors' Note:
We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv 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 dehumanization 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 7 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. —Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Awards & Nominations
2026 Venice Film Festival - Winner: Special Jury Prize
2026 New York Film Festival - Official Selection
Be Kind, Rewind | December 11–31, 2026
Join us as we rewind the best and biggest films of 2026—from favorite titles that graced the Siskel Film Center’s screens to movies that thrilled audiences across the country. A mini-reflection on the cinematic year that was, BE KIND, REWIND surveys breakout features, new epics from established masters, barnstorming documentaries, and one highly anticipated restoration. As the final days of 2026 slip away, the Siskel Film Center invites you to consider what these films reveal not just about the movies of the year but about 2026 itself.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu