Hamas Festival Attack Doc from Gebrueder Beetz

Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion has wrapped production on a new documentary special that follows the events of October 7 when Hamas terrorists attacked an electronic music festival near the Gaza-Israel border.

The half-hour Hamas’ Festival Attack—The Survivors of the Desert Rave special will debut as an ARTE Re: feature on November 28 at 10:10 p.m. in Germany and 10:50 p.m. in France on ARTE. It features interviews with the survivors of the massacre, first responders and real-time footage collated from multiple sources.

As part of a special program on ARTE, interviews will be aired before and after the film with survivors of the attack, director Duki Dror and producer Reinhardt Beetz.

A 50-minute version of the film, titled Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre, is being finalized and will be distributed worldwide within the next few weeks.

The production company is also working on One Day in October, an international 90-minute high-end documentary covering the massacre and its aftermath, which will be completed in October 2024.

“Our team on the ground documented the event in real-time,” said Beetz, CEO of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion. “We knew we had to act fast and capture these unbelievably harrowing stories which will resonate for years to come. The special program, which will be broadcast on November 28, is just the beginning, and we are in development on longer productions that will tell the story of the terrible attacks by Hamas with journalistic depth.”

“We knew we had to start filming the survivors, document their experiences, and collect a wide variety of materials as quickly as possible,” added Dror of Zygote Films. “The story of the massacre at the festival is unique not only due to the staggering number of victims and the brutal terrors they endured but the fact that these events were captured in real-time by multiple sources on a massive scale, including the Hamas’ own cameramen and GoPros attached to the perpetrators, by the victims on their mobile phones, CCTV footage, dash cams and the first responders on site.”