Naza

Naza is screening at Phoenix Picturehouse over the next couple of weeks, with four sessions running from Friday 30 October to Wednesday 4 November. It's a documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 80 minutes long, and it's one of those films that's hard to describe in a single sentence because of the scale of what it's looking at.

Shot at night on Tel Aviv rooftops while the city carries on below, Naza follows secret conversations in which the people who designed and operated the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza reveal how they worked. It's not a film that asks you to imagine how these things happen; it's one that lets the people who actually built the systems explain them in their own words. The title comes from the Hebrew word for the target-selection system itself.

Abraham and Szor were two of the four co-directors of No Other Land, which won an Oscar in 2024. Between them, they bring two different skill sets to the project: one is a filmmaker and investigative journalist, the other a filmmaker and cinematographer. They've both spoken about making the film out of a sense of obligation to use their position as Israelis to examine these systems from the inside. It took three years of filming to get it together, and much of the material was published almost immediately by The Guardian, one of the film's producers, alongside reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call.

Reviewers have called it one of 2026's most vital film releases, and it's rated [15]. The screenings are at Phoenix Picturehouse, 57 Walton Street, OX2 6AE, on Friday 30 October at 2.00pm, Saturday 31 October at 1.00pm, Monday 2 November at 4.00pm, and Wednesday 4 November at 2.00pm.