NAZA: Film exposing systematic killing in Gaza gets record 24-minute standing ovation at Venice
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The film features testimony from 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers about the systems behind Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza

A documentary examining the Israeli military systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza received a record-breaking standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

NAZA, directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, drew a record-breaking 24-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, the longest at Venice, according to Variety.

The reception surpassed the 22-minute ovation given last year to Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, which tells the story of the six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in January 2024.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      16 days ago

      This documentary supposedly films Israelis talking enthusiastically about how they’re committing a genocide and how this isn’t a few bad apples. So it sounds more like it makes Israel look bad, rather than the whole “shoot and cry” song and dance they normally do. Or make them out to be “victims” of Palestinians, like those October 7th. documentaries about “poor smol bean concert goers who weren’t doing anything next to the open air concentration camp.”

      Still wouldn’t surprise me if there was zionism present in the film.

      • BernieSanders_Kibbutz [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        16 days ago

        If the snuff film wasn’t approved by genocidal Israel, then these fuckers who spread Hamas October 7th Hoaxes would be in Israeli jails also beingremovedd by Ben Gvir’s dogs.

        https://xitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2098514715110420768

        “The world knows what happened in Gaza and doesn’t need the film for that. On the other hand, the film proves that there are still pockets of resistance in Israeli society and perhaps it’s too early to despair of us”

        While defending the new Israeli-made film NAZA, documenting anonymous confessions by Israeli war criminals, Haaretz’s Nir Hasson inadvertently captures the biggest problem with the film - it helps normalize an inherently racist and genocidal society. It helps whitewash Israel and mostly benefits Israelis - the perpetrators of the genocide, not its victims.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          16 days ago

          Wait so if I’m understanding this, the film is praising Israelis for bragging about their crimes against humanity? JFC. Just when you think they can’t get worse, they somehow act worse.

          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            16 days ago

            I severely underestimated the depravity of the Israeli population. The article linked in the OP made it seem like this was a pro-Palestinian documentary calling for the complete destruction of the zionist entity for being irredeemably evil.