Oscar-Winning Israeli Filmmaker Yuval Abraham Unveils Documentary Exposing Israel’s “System of Killing”
September 12, 2026
Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor unveiled a groundbreaking documentary at the Venice Film Festival built on the terrifying testimonies of 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence officers who broke ranks to expose what they call a deliberate, systematic “system of killing” in Gaza.
Their words, not ours: mass killing, relying on mass surveillance. A bureaucratized, routine machine for ending Palestinian lives.
It got a 25-minute standing ovation in Venice. It’s the only documentary competing for the Golden Lion.
When the people who built the system start describing it as a system of killing, there’s no “context” left to hide behind. There’s no “self-defense” that explains a bureaucracy built to kill efficiently and call it routine.
This isn’t propaganda from the outside. This is confession from the inside.
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English Script:
Yuval Abraham: In our work with this film, I feel also it’s No other Land. We are trying to look at state crimes committed by Israel which are systemic. And so also in this film. And, you know, we are talking to 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, and we really are looking at a system, at a system of killing and which is mass killing, which is predicated on it relies on mass surveillance. But we felt a responsibility as Israelis to use our position and our ability to gain sometimes and confidence to bring the insider testimony in to how the system looks like from the inside. Part of why we wanted to make this film is because, and I think that’s hearing testimonies. And from officers who themselves were operating these systems of killing, designed them. And can make the denial of the crimes harder. And there is a direct correlation between the silence or between the denial of the crimes and their ability to persist.
