Caro Claire Burke, the bestselling novelist behind the most-talked-about-book of 2026, is asking all her followers to see a movie. That movie is NAZA, an award-winning documentary that explores Israel’s brutal military tactics in Gaza.
As The Guardian has reported, NAZA reveals “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The film’s title refers to “a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike.”
A labor of profound grit, the project comes from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Which team—along with producer Jonathan Glazer—were also behind 2024’s Oscar-winning expose, No Other Land.
As in that project, the ground-breaking coverage in NAZA leans on hard-won interviews from endangered subjects, and scoops from independent journals like +972 and The Guardian.
Despite a robust protest movement—culminating in threats to the filmmakers’ citizenship—NAZA is currently collecting laurels at the New York Film Festival, and is bound for a wider release this fall.
New York’s IFC Center will show the film in October. And if you happen to be in the neighborhood, you can get a free ticket to one of their screenings—thanks to Bu Burke.
The author of Yesteryear appealed to her Insta followers in a post yesterday afternoon.
“I’ve bought all remaining tickets for the daily 1:00 pm showing of NAZA for its upcoming opening week (sept 30- oct 6) at @ifccenter in Greenwich Village,” she writes.
Untuk mendapatkan tiket gratis, yang perlu Anda lakukan adalah bergabung ke antrean kapan saja setelah jam 11 pagi setiap hari di IFC Center. Mereka akan membagikan tiket untuk pertunjukan hari itu di loket mulai pukul 12:30 siang dengan sistem siapa cepat dia dapat, sampai tiketnya habis.
Batas dua tiket per orang! Saya juga akan melihat apa yang bisa saya lakukan di kota-kota lain, tetapi untuk saat ini kita memulai di New York.
Menjelaskan alasan pemberian ini, Burke memuji para arsitek atas risiko yang mereka ambil. “Saya akan menjaga ini sederhana dan berkata seperti ini,” tulisnya. “Jika tujuan seni adalah untuk memperluas kesadaran, dan menantang sistem kekuasaan serta penindasan, maka bisa dikatakan bahwa ini adalah karya seni terpenting yang muncul tahun ini.”
Senang melihat pemikiran maju seperti itu dari ur-tradwife. Terima kasih, Bu Burke!
