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In 2023 and 2024, Yuval Abraham, the Israeli journalist and co-director of the documentary “No Other Land,” wrote a pair of articles about the high number of civilian casualties in the attacks that Israel launched in Gaza in response to Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023. Now Abraham has turned his research into a film, “NAZA,” co-directed with Rachel Szor. Its title is a shorthand for the Hebrew nezek agavi, meaning “collateral damage.” Since the movie was first shown, at the Venice Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize, it has received immense pushback—much of it from journalists and officials who haven’t yet seen it. Government officials in Israel are threatening to strip Abraham and Szor of their Israeli citizenship. Protesters outside Szor’s parents’ house have clamored for the filmmakers to be executed. “NAZA” mostly consists of Abraham’s on-camera interviews with 24 anonymous sources who were serving or had served in military or intelligence capacities in the Gaza war. “NAZA” “turns the screen into a mirror of subjectivity, putting viewers face to face with their motives, their responsibilities, their identities,” Richard Brody writes. Read his review: https://t.co/mOAu1yWGiD