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It includes interviews with 24 Israeli military or intelligence soldiers and officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza, resulting in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians.The film builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and the Guardian between 2023 and 2025.The 80-minute documentary won the special jury prize at this year\u2019s Venice film festival on Saturday, after receiving a 25-minute standing ovation \u2013 a festival record. On Sunday, Israel\u2019s culture minister, Miki Zohar, accused the directors of being willing to \u201charm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world\u201d.Jonathan Glazer, Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham and James Wilson in Venice. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/AFP/Getty Images\u201cI will act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable creators for treason against the state,\u201d Zohar wrote on X.Representatives for Venice, or the jury headed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, have not yet commented on these threats, but the artistic director of the Telluride film festival \u2013 widely acknowledged as the foremost Oscars launchpad \u2013 was swift to voice her outrage.\u201cDocumentary film-makers are among the best long-form journalists working and critical to our understanding of the world,\u201d said Julie Huntsinger. \u201cTo even threaten their citizenship standing is unacceptable. This should be condemned by any thinking human.\u201dHer words were echoed by the heads of the Locarno film festival, who said they stood \u201cfirmly in support of film-makers\u2019 right to pursue difficult and urgent subjects without fear of reprisal. Artistic and journalistic freedom are the very foundation of what cinema can be: a space for dialogue which engages critically with the world we live in.\u201dThey added that they \u201creaffirm our support for film-makers who ask difficult questions and help us reflect\u201d.NAZA will screen at the San Sebasti\u00e1n film festival next week. In a statement, its festival directors said the film \u201cexposes the systematic genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government\u201d and that they stand \u201cin solidarity\u201d with the film\u2019s makers as well as \u201cthe Palestinian people\u201d. The documentary will show at the Bologna film festival tonight, before its North American premiere, at the New York film festival, later this month.Tricia Tuttle, director of the Berlin film festival, said: \u201cArtists must be free to critically examine the world. Films can provoke discussion, disagreement and criticism, but in a democratic society, the response to art must be dialogue and scrutiny, not intimidation or punishment by the state. Our team at the Berlinale stands with Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and all artists who exercise these rights.\u201dAbraham and Szor won the documentary Oscar in 2025 for No Other Land, about Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, alongside their Palestinian co-directors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. That film premiered at Berlin the previous year, where it won a prize. Following this victory, Abraham\u2019s family home was targeted by a rightwing mob. \u201cFor me, that was the worst moment of all,\u201d he told the Guardian last week. \u201cMy mum is hoping it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201dEarlier this year, Tuttle\u2019s position came under threat after several prize winners condemned Israel\u2019s actions against Palestinians from the stage at the closing night awards gala. In the wake of this, the German culture minister, Wolfram Weimer, convened a crisis meeting as the Bild tabloid reported Tuttle was to be fired over giving \u201chate speech\u201d an airing. In response, hundreds of prominent film-makers worldwide, including from Israel, rallied around Tuttle.Laura Poitras in Venice last week. Photograph: Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis/Getty ImagesIn Israel, more than 1,500 film-makers have signed a petition in support of the directors, and refuting the accusation that they have sought to damage the country\u2019s image internationally.Signatories include film-makers Liran Atzmor, one of the petition\u2019s initiators, Nadav Lapid, Orna Ben Dor, Netalie Braun, Rani Blair, Hagai Levi, Shai Carmeli-Pollak and Shlomi Elkabetz.The petition calls on those who support freedom of expression and artistic freedom to stand in solidarity with Abraham and Szor.\u201cIn recent days, we have witnessed an unprecedented campaign of vilification and incitement against the film\u2019s creators,\u201d it says, warning that the rhetoric was moving increasingly close to \u201ceffectively sanctioning violence\u201d and posed a physical threat to their lives.So far the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences has not commented on the situation in which its recent winners find themselves. However, previous recipients of the documentary award have done so.Laura Poitras, who won the documentary Oscar in 2015 for Citizenfour, about the WikiLeaks whistleblower Edward Snowden, defended the film\u2019s factual credentials.\u201cThe facts about the mass killing of civilians in NAZA have been reported by the Guardian in dozens of rigorously fact-checked articles, and every assertion in the film is based on multiple sources,\u201d said Poitras, who acted as a consultant on NAZA.No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal with his Oscar in March 2025, shortly after he had been attacked by Israeli settlers at his home, in his village of Susya in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty ImagesShe called the threats by Israeli government officials \u201ca threat to journalists worldwide. They are also familiar \u2013 my reporting with the Guardian on the National Security Authority\u2019s illegal global mass surveillance was met with similar denials and attacks by the US government.\u201cDespite the alarming nature of these current threats, it is important to emphasise that Israel has killed over 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza and has normalised the murder of journalists.\u201dMeanwhile Nan Goldin, the US photographer and activist who worked with Poitras on the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and Bloodshed, said she applauded NAZA\u2019s directors \u201cfor their enormous courage in presenting a film that shows irrefutable proof of Israel\u2019s war crimes at their own great risk.\u201dBritish film industry veterans offering their support include director Richard Eyre, who said he was \u201cbeyond shocked by anything that the Israeli government does\u201d, and the novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, who called the pair \u201cboth brave and admirable, standing up to state oppression, steadfast in their pursuit of the truth\u201d.Israeli attacks in Gaza since 2023 have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, and injured more than 174,000 others, together representing more than 10% of Gaza\u2019s prewar population. Israel launched its war after the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, when more than 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken to Gaza by militants. The majority of the dead and hostages were civilians. 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