A documentary examining the Israeli military systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza received a record-breaking standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

NAZA, directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, drew a record-breaking 24-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, the longest at Venice, according to Variety.

The reception surpassed the 22-minute ovation given last year to Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, which tells the story of the six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in January 2024.

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The film's title refers to a Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage”, used in the film to describe estimates of civilians expected to be killed in a strike.

Abraham and Szor said the term obscures both the military’s advance knowledge of likely civilian deaths and the nature of the campaign itself.