Israel-Gaza Doc ‘Hamas Festival Attack – The Survivors Of The Desert Rave’ From Duki Dror Set For ZDF/Arte

Jesse Whittock

24 November 2023 at 5:12 am·3-min read

EXCLUSIVE: A fast turnaround doc from filmmaker Duki Dror profiling the survivors of the surprise Hamas-led attack on a music festival in Israel is set to launch in Germany and France.

Hamas Festival Attack – The Survivors of the Desert Rave will launch on Arte as an ‘Arte Re:’ special on Tuesday, November 28 at 10:10 PM in Germany and 10:50 PM in France on Arte. ZDF is a shareholder in Arte Deutschland and often works with its French counterpart on doc programs.

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An 50-minute international version is being readied under the title Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre by Leonine-owned producer Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and Dror’s Zygote Films.

At least 365 people were killed when Hamas stormed the Supernova Sukkot Gathering near kibbutz Re’im as part of a coordinated attack on Israel on October 7. Around 40 more were kidnapped and taken to Gaza as hostages. Horrifying videos and images from the festival, which was attended by more than 3,500 people from multiple countries, have become synonymous with the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, which has today seen a four-day ceasefire come into being.

The doc features interviews with the survivors of the massacre and 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 currently being finalized and will be distributed worldwide within the next few weeks. In addition, Gebrueder Beetz is also working on One Day in October, a 90-minute high-end international documentary covering the massacre and its aftermath, which is due to be completed in October 2024.

Hamas Festival Attack – The Survivors of the Desert Rave is produced by Beetz and Dror, who was behind Netflix and WDR/Arte’s Inside the Mossad. The production team includes Yossi Bloch (Netflix’s The Devil Next Door), Noam Pinchas (VPRO’s Murky Skies), and executive producer Danna Stern (Fauda, The Devil Next Door, The Oslo Diaries).

“Our team on the ground documented the event in real time. We knew we had to act fast and capture these unbelievably harrowing stories which will resonate for years to come,” said Beetz, CEO of Gebrueder Beetz. “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 Israeli producer and director Dror. “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.”

Gebrueder Beetz is behind docs such as Sundance title Gaza and the recent In the Shadow of Beirut, which has entered the Oscar race and was co-produced with Hillary Clinton’s company Hidden Light Productions. Both titles were for ZDF/Arte.

The company says its films are “united by a deeply human approach, far removed from politics – and yet, they are highly political.” We recently revealed it has hired long-serving ZDF docs chief Martin Pieper in an International production push. Germany-based production group Leonine acquired the business last year, taking 50% of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion & Co. KG (Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne) and 100% of Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Lüneburg.

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