From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor with the special jury prize award for NAZA at the Venice film festival. Photograph: Laurent Hou/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images

First there was a moment of stunned silence. Then, in the Sala Grande, the main screening hall of the Venice film festival within the Palazzo del Cinema, the audience stood almost as one and turned to applaud the film-makers for 25 minutes.

The film the audience had watched for 80 harrowing minutes was the Gaza documentary NAZA, which has been produced by the Guardian.