NAZA

Very, very few films, no matter how great or important, are actually urgent. You’ll get around to it eventually; it’ll be stuck in time waiting for you. But NAZA is urgent, an essential film, a living document in conversation with the most pressing issue in the world right now.

NAZA puts together a restrained, intelligent, articulate, precise and utterly damning case against Israel’s actions in Gaza and their ongoing actions through the region. As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable. As a document, it is an indictment.

NAZA is an anguishing testament to inhumanity.

Much of the film’s chilling information has already surfaced, among other outlets, in newspapers like The Guardian, which serves as a producer here. Instead, Abraham and Szor, two of the four-person team behind the Oscar-winning “No Other Land,” heed their interviewee’s call, laying things out with the same abject candor as their subject.

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s film is an overwhelming and vital work of investigative journalism.

You’ve spent close to 80 minutes as a listener. But before you leave the theater or shut off your laptop, it’s asking you to be a witness.

At all events, the anguish of Gaza is brought into pin-sharp focus.