A few weeks ago, we reported that NAZA, a documentary centered on Gaza, had just broken the record for the longest standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival. Now, those who weren’t lucky enough to catch it on the festival circuit will finally have a chance to see what all the applause was about as the project is soon to be made available to stream, free of charge.
After making its way through cinemas around the world, the film is set to land on The Guardian’s website for free, giving those who missed it on the big screen the chance to catch it from home. The British publication, which helped produce the documentary, will host the film in late November in an effort to reaffirm its commitment to the “dissemination of independent journalism.”
“NAZA is grounded in rigorous journalism published over the past three years,” said Harry Davies, a Guardian investigations correspondent and one of NAZA’s producers. “But it is also a powerful piece of cinema that will soon be available on screens, large and small, around the world,” he added.
Produced by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor—the same duo behind Emmy Award-winning No Other Land—NAZA draws on first-hand testimonies to investigate the murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, examining how strikes by occupation forces are authorized, carried out, and ultimately leave entire families and communities devastated.
Through accounts from survivors, bereaved families, high-ranking officials, and soldiers, the film confronts the human toll of Israel’s carpet-bombing, looking beyond casualty figures to document the lives destroyed behind them and the mechanisms that determine who, and what, becomes a target.
With hopes of challenging many of the perceptions surrounding the genocide in Gaza, NAZA ultimately seeks to put faces, names, and individual stories to a reality too often reduced to numbers. And by putting the film online for free, its creators are making sure those stories reach as many people as possible.
No official release date has been announced just yet, but with NAZA expected to land on The Guardian’s website in a matter of weeks.
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