Jonathan Glazer calls Israel’s NAZA backlash...

Summary

• Director Jonathan Glazer said Israel’s reaction to the Gaza documentary NAZA was “much more venal” than he expected, at the film’s UK premiere in London.
• Jonathan Glazer on dehumanisationJonathan Glazer said he felt “shocked into silence” when he first watched NAZA.
• Success for Jonathan Glazer’s teamHowever, Jonathan Glazer and his colleagues have refused to back down, and NAZA has done well despite the pressure.

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Director Jonathan Glazer said Israel’s reaction to the Gaza documentary NAZA was “much more venal” than he expected, at the film’s UK premiere in London.

As an executive producer of the documentary, Glazer joined a stage conversation. He spoke on Thursday night with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that produced it, Katharine Viner.

He expected part of the backlash, he said. “In my point of view,” though, it was far worse than he thought.

Jonathan Glazer on dehumanisation

Jonathan Glazer said he felt “shocked into silence” when he first watched NAZA. He sees it as “clearly in dialogue” with his own film, The Zone of Interest.

That 2023 drama showed the daily routines of Nazi officers at Auschwitz. Both works tackle “very similar themes,” Glazer said.

“Both films deal with dehumanisation,” he told the audience. In his view, trouble starts when people treat others as lesser beings.