This documentary about Gaza is beating ‘Avengers Endgame: Encore’ at the box office

NAZA, a documentary about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, is currently beating Avengers Endgame: Encore at the Italian box office ahead of a global launch. Created by Oscar-winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, NAZA features interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers about how their country’s armed forces are using AI and automated surveillance in military targeting systems during the ongoing war in Gaza. The title comes from a military acronym used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. “We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible,” explained Abraham and Szor. “While filming over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like?” NAZA premiered in Italian cinemas on Monday (September 28) and by Tuesday, had taken €1.1million at the bo...