ROME – NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s documentary in which Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers describe the systems the military uses to select targets in Gaza, had sold 1,547,033 cinema tickets across 47 territories by 6 November. The figures were collated by its producers, The Guardian and JW Films, and reported by Deadline and Variety on 11 November. Italy, where the film opened first, accounts for 717,517 of those admissions, or about 46%.
The producers put the international gross, excluding the US, at $13.5m, with more than $1m more in the US. It is an unusual run for a film that was booked in Italy as a three-day event and in France for two days, and that The Guardian plans to make free to watch online in late November.
Key facts
- Worldwide, to 6 November: 1,547,033 admissions in 47 territories; $13.5m gross outside the US and more than $1m in the US (producers’ figures)
- Italy (I Wonder Pictures, from 28 September): €5,424,444 ($6.1m) and 719,440 admissions to 10 November, fourth on Cinetel’s chart for the season that began on 1 August
- Europe: the eight European markets with published figures account for about 1.25 million admissions, roughly 80% of the total (FilmBunch calculation)
- France (mk2 alt): more than 82,000 admissions from a 48-hour release on 12–13 October
- US and Canada: 83,673 admissions; Neon joined as US distributor in late October
Shares and totals marked as ours are FilmBunch calculations; the dollar figure for Italy uses the European Central Bank rate for 10 November 2026, USD1.1214 per euro.
From three-day event to the season’s fourth-biggest title
Italy is the backbone of the total. I Wonder Pictures booked NAZA as an event release for 28–30 September, less than three weeks after its world premiere in competition at Venice, where it won the special jury prize. Il Post reported about 240,000 tickets and €1.8m over those three days, enough for the distributor to keep it in cinemas.
The audience kept arriving. NAZA topped the 1–4 October weekend with €1.22m from 414 cinemas, taking its total to €3.03m and 396,111 admissions, according to Cinetel figures reported by CineGuru and Sky TG24. By 12 October, la Repubblica put it at €4.61m and 603,670 admissions, again citing Cinetel.
Cinetel’s season chart now has the film at €5,424,444 and 719,440 admissions to 10 November. Only Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey and Moana have taken more in Italy since 1 August. On those numbers, about 84% of the Italian audience came in the first 15 days, and the remaining 116,000 or so tickets over the following four weeks: a long tail for a title booked for three days. At about $6.1m, Italy’s gross is roughly 45% of the $13.5m the producers report outside the US, close to its share of admissions.
The producers describe NAZA as the third most-watched documentary in Italian cinema history, after Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins. The ranking is theirs; CineGuru puts Michael Moore’s film at about €9m in Italy in 2004.
A largely European audience
Beyond Italy, the producers’ figures point to a run built mainly in Europe:
- Benelux (Cherry Pickers): 132,323
- UK and Ireland (Dogwoof, from 15 October): 102,509, including more than 7,000 for a London launch screening and Q&A relayed live to 104 cinemas
- Germany (ImmerGuteFilme): 83,355
- France (mk2 alt): more than 82,000
- Spain (Elastica, from 9 October on 105 screens): 61,783
- Switzerland: more than 50,000
- Austria (Polyfilm, from 1 October): 16,521
Together with Italy, those eight markets account for about 1.25 million admissions, or 80% of the worldwide figure. Adding the 83,673 in the US and Canada takes the territories with published figures to about 1.33 million, or 86%. That leaves roughly 217,000 admissions across the rest of the release, which the producers say includes Australia and New Zealand, Scandinavia, Poland, Romania, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand, without giving figures.
In Germany and Austria, the producers say, NAZA is running ahead of where No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary Abraham and Szor co-directed with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab stood at the same stage. They did not publish the comparison figures.
Short windows by design
France shows how far the release plan was shaped around the online date. mk2 alt played the film for 48 hours on 12 and 13 October, with close to 500 screenings in more than 270 cinemas, nearly half of them classified art et essai. In its 14 October release, mk2 said the event run sat within France’s exceptional visa and media-windows rules, which allow a cinema release to be followed within weeks by online distribution.
In the US, The Guardian and mk2 self-distributed the film from 30 September, opening exclusively at the IFC Center in New York with bookings by Michael Tuckman’s mTuckman Media. Neon came on as US distributor in late October to take it wider. mk2 Films handles world sales.
The Guardian said in September that it would make NAZA free to watch worldwide on theguardian.com in late November, soon after the theatrical run. That sets a horizon for cinema takings, but the count is still rising for now: Neon is widening the US release, and the producers had the film in 379 Italian cinemas on 6 November.
The awards campaign runs alongside. NAZA won the audience award at San Sebastián and the critics prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, and on 8 November took best political documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York. It is nominated for best documentary feature at the Gotham Awards and is on the European Film Awards documentary shortlist.
For the latest Italian figures, see last weekend’s Italian box-office chart and the rest of our documentary coverage.
Sources
- Variety, ‘NAZA’ From ‘No Other Land’ Co-Directors Passes 1.5 Million Cinema Admissions Worldwide, 11 November 2026 (producers’ figures to 6 November)
- Deadline, ‘NAZA’ Becomes One Of The Most Watched Docs On Theatrical Release In 2026, 11 November 2026 (figures collated by The Guardian and JW Films)
- Cinetel, Box Office stagionale, 1 August–10 November 2026 (NAZA €5,424,444, 719,440 admissions, fourth)
- The Guardian (GNM press office), Guardian announces global release plans for NAZA, 24 September 2026
- Variety, Gaza Documentary ‘NAZA’ Sets U.S. Release Through Self-Distribution, September 2026
- mk2 Pro, mk2 alt annonce un total de plus de 82 000 spectateurs (press release), 14 October 2026
- mk2 Films, NAZA film page
- Il Post, Il successo di NAZA in Italia ha pochi precedenti, 16 October 2026
- Sky TG24, Naza record (Cinetel data for 1–4 October), 6 October 2026
- CineGuru, Naza vola oltre i 3 milioni (Cinetel weekend 1–4 October), 5 October 2026
- la Repubblica, Naza (Cinetel totals to 12 October), 13 October 2026
- Critics Choice Association, 11th Critics Choice Documentary Awards winners, 8 November 2026
- European Central Bank euro reference rate, 10 November 2026 (USD 1.1214 per euro)