10 sept 2026 mk2 Films launches sales on Venice documentary film NAZA

mk2 Films launches sales on Venice documentary film NAZA by Israeli Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

mk2 films boards NAZA. 

The film is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli directors of the four co-directors of 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land’ and is produced by the Guardian and James Wilson (JW Films) and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer. Wilson and Glazer are the Oscar-winning team behind The Zone of Interest.

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival and the Guardian announced NAZA yesterday as a late entry to the Competition where it will receive its world premiere on September 10th. It is the only documentary feature to be invited to the Competition this year.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The film’s title – NAZA – is a term that appears throughout the documentary. It is a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike.

It builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and The Guardian between 2023 and 2025.

Nathanaël Karmitz, CEO of mk2, and Fionnuala Jamison, Managing Director of mk2 Films, commented: “Beyond the power of its testimonies and the rigor of its journalistic approach, the film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor struck us for the cinematic excellence of its form. The intelligence of its direction resonates deeply with mk2’s history as a film company whose mission has always included giving audiences, through cinema, the keys and tools to confront the truth of the world we live in, however difficult that truth may be.”

NAZA is a Guardian production with JW Films, in association with Placeholder Films and Unseen Hand.

80’ / Hebrew, English / UK 2026

Bios
Yuval Abraham is a filmmaker and investigative journalist. Rachel Szor is a filmmaker and cinematographer. They are two of the four co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (2024).

James Wilson is a British film producer and two-time British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) winner. Jonathan Glazer is a British filmmaker and winner of a BAFTA, a British Independent Film Award, and a César Award. In 2024, their film The Zone of Interest won the Academy Award for best international film.

About mk2 films
Founded in 1974, mk2 Films is a sales agent, producer, distributor and a home for both established and emerging talent. Driven by filmmakers who are politically and artistically engaged, mk2 champions stories that resonate universally and offer reflections on the world we live in.

In 2025, mk2 represented The Secret Agent, which won two Golden Globes, and Sentimental Value, which received the award for Best International Feature. At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, mk2 Films presented a strong selection of eleven films across the official program, including AMI Paris Grand Prize La Gradiva (Marine Atlan) in the International Critics’ Week, Caméra d’Or Ben’Imana (Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo) alongside Competition titles Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer), The Birthday Party (Léa Mysius), Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev), The Man I Love (Ira Sachs), and Nagi Notes (Koji Fukada), and the Special Screening of Madame (Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz).

Its acclaimed catalogue includes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet and It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi, The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier, Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma, and Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski.

mk2 Films also distributes a unique library of more than 1,000 films in France and around the world, spanning fiction, animation, and documentaries, with works by Charles Chaplin, François Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Krzysztof Kieślowski, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Olivier Assayas.

About Guardian Documentaries
Guardian Documentaries is committed to telling urgent contemporary stories with unique artistic vision. Producing, curating and commissioning films from around the world, Guardian Documentaries have won critical acclaim, including an Oscar in 2021 for Colette and a 2022 BAFTA Film Award for The Black Cop.