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.

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    1 month 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.