NAZA

NAZA screens at the Electric Palace cinema on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, both days starting at 11:00. It's a 77-minute documentary directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and it's part of the cinema's Storm the Palace strand of political documentaries, curated by BAFTA award-winning director Archie Lauchlan.

The film is shot in present tense at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, and the title itself comes from a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians expected to be killed in an airstrike. It's a documentary about the systems behind Israel's mass killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and it's one of the more direct looks at the mechanics of those strikes that you'll find on screen.

It's already picked up some serious attention on the festival circuit: it won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was an official selection of the New York Film Festival. Critics have described it as 'the best present-tense documentary of its time since Citizenfour' and 'one of the most important films of our time'.

It's not just a screening, either. The film is shown with the Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who'll be there to offer information and support both before and after the screening, so if you're coming with questions or just want to talk through what you've seen, they'll be on hand. The Electric Palace is at 39a High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER, and the film runs for 77 minutes, with screenings at 11:00 on both Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November.