Documentary NAZA Passes $1 Million at the Box Office
The documentary NAZA has passed $1 million at the box office. Its cumulative total reached $1.07 million as of the weekend reported on Sunday, October 25, 2026, according to Deadline.
The film is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two Israeli filmmakers who have both won Oscars. It is a documentary about the Israeli military in Gaza. It opened on September 30 in 85 cinemas across 30 cities.
In its fourth week of release, NAZA earned an estimated $74,500 on 73 screens, according to the same Deadline report. These are studio estimates, and final figures usually follow on the Monday. A film that is still earning money in its fourth week is one that is holding on to its audience, even as the number of cinemas showing it shrinks.
The film has also changed hands during its run. Neon, a distributor that books cinemas and runs the marketing, took on NAZA partway through its rollout. Before that, the producer had been distributing the film itself, Deadline reported. Neon also said in a Facebook post that NAZA opened at No. 1 at the Italian box office and set a record for a documentary release in Italy.
The other big story on the same weekend chart belongs to Netflix. Its Spanish drama La Bola Negra expanded to nine cinemas in its second week and grossed an estimated $245,000 over three days, bringing its total to $650,000, Deadline reported. It is the first film Netflix has taken into cinemas with official box office figures published, the trade paper added. Netflix is best known for streaming, so the move puts one of its titles on a different kind of screen.
Screen Daily reported that La Bola Negra had a 47-day exclusive theatrical window, the stretch in which a film plays only in cinemas before it can reach streaming or television. The same report said the film had expanded into San Francisco, Toronto, Brooklyn and the Landmark Sunset cinema in Los Angeles. The film has also won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it was named Best Narrative Feature at the Hamptons Film Festival, which ran from October 2 to 12, according to Deadline.
Two films, two different routes into cinemas. One is an independent documentary that found a distributor mid-run. The other is a streaming title that is testing a cinema run with its own published numbers. Both are now competing for the same screens and weekend audiences in the same weeks.
