Film "NAZA" from tomorrow on the cinema program of Meeting Point: Dealing with the dehumanization of Palestinians

Film "NAZA" tomorrow on the schedule of the Meeting Point cinema: Dealing with the dehumanization of Palestinians The Meeting Point cinema is part of a global campaign to show this film, in which selected cinemas participate. The film was premiered at the recently held Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, through anonymous testimonies of Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, reveals the mechanisms for planning and carrying out military operations in Gaza, including the systematic acceptance of a large number of civilian victims. The film explores how the dehumanization of Palestinians and the bureaucratization of violence enable the mass killing of civilians. "We made this film out of the feeling of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to investigate the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians, for which our country is responsible. While we were filming members of the Israeli army on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night over the last three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that our grandfathers and grandfathers asked, and that were asked throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow for the complete dehumanization of another? What does the internal functioning of such a system look like? Many of the discoveries in the film were published almost immediately after we learned them, in the months after the October 7th attack, in The Guardian (one of the film's producers), in cooperation with the reporting partners, +972 Magazine, and Local Call. The film allows us to investigate something deeper than what we could through investigative journalism alone: not just the words that were spoken, but also those that were not – the silence. It is all of us who must break this silence," say the authors of the film "NAZA" Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. From the critics: "As a film, it is corrupted. As a journalistic work, it is undeniable. As a document, it is an accusation." – John Bleasdale, Time Out "Although the data was already known, this ninety-minute film presents it in an extremely powerful way." – David Katz, Cineuropa "A disturbing and immensely important work of investigative journalism." – Eli Friedberg, Slant Magazine. Tickets are on sale through the Meeting Point cinema website or at the ticket office one hour before the screening begins.