The Guardian To Offer ‘NAZA’ For Free On Website After Theatrical Run & Is Exploring Ways To Show Doc In Israel & Palestinian Territories

The Guardian and mk2 Films have announced global release plans for Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s bombshell documentary NAZA.

The partners said The Guardian-produced documentary will be released theatrically from 28 September onwards in more than 50 territories, having secured theatrical distributors in 56 territories since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 10 September.

In an unprecedented move, the Guardian will make NAZA available for global audiences on its website, after the theatrical run later this fall.

The investigative documentary, exposing the calculated targeting of civilians in Gaza in missile strikes by Israeli military through the testimony of intelligence personnel and soldiers involved in the killing, has caused a sensation since its Venice debut.

It landed a record 25-minute ovation its Venice premiere Film, but has since been attacked by Israeli politicians including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has threatened to strip the directors of their Israeli citizenship even though he has no power to do this under the country’s laws.

The Guardian and mk2 said the film has been offered to a number of distributors and cinemas in Israel, and they will be exploring other ways to enable the film to be seen in the occupied Palestinian territories.

They added that, as previously announced, the film will receive its North American premiere on 26 September at New York Film Festival, and will open in U.S. theaters on September 30, launching exclusively at the IFC Center in New York City.

It will expand to Los Angeles and other key markets on October 9th, ahead of a national roll out in the weeks to follow.

NAZA is produced by The Guardian and James Wilson (JW Films); and executive produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.

It builds on a series of revelations first published by the Guardian, +972 Magazine, a Israeli-Palestinian publication, and Hebrew-language outlet, Local Call between 2023-2025, including groundbreaking investigations into how Israel uses AI to identify targets in Gaza.