Israeli Director Guy Nattiv on His Efforts to Highlight the Civilians Ensnared in a “Disastrous F***-Up”

“God, it’s fucking crazy,” Guy Nattiv said with exasperation when we connected by phone this week, in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel that has resulted in the deaths and hostage-taking of hundreds of Israelis. “This is a holocaust.”

Nattiv, the first Israeli filmmaker to ever win an Oscar — he won best documentary short for 2018’s Skin — and the director the 2023 film Golda, which chronicles Golda Meir’s response to the 1973 surprise attack…