Documentary About Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival Attack Gets Released in Select Theaters Nationwide

A documentary that features first-hand videos and eyewitness accounts from the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival will be screened in select theaters across the country from Thursday through Sunday.

A week-long, Oscar-qualifying run of “We Will Dance Again” that began on Aug. 23 is also currently taking place at the Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles and the documentary will stream exclusively on Paramount+ in September. Tickets for all screenings are available online and the showings were organized by Paramount+ in partnership with the platform Iconic Events Releasing.

In order for the documentary to qualify for the Academy Awards, it must meet the eligibility requirements set by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which include completing a week-long theatrical run in a commercial theater in a qualifying area.

The award-winning film “We Will Dance Again” includes interviews with more than a dozen young festival-goers who tell the harrowing stories of how they survived the deadly massacre at the music festival in Re’im, Israel, where Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists killed nearly 400 people and kidnapped approximately 40 others. Their testimonies are combined with footage they filmed themselves on their cellphones as well as videos recovered from body cameras worn by the terrorists. The documentary was directed by Yariv Moser, whose award-winning credits include “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes,” “Ben Gurion: Epilogue” and “My First War.”

“We Will Dance Again” is a See It Now Studios original documentary. It is a co-production with the global entertainment studio Sipur and producer Bitachon 365 in collaboration with MGM Television, a division of Amazon MGM Studios, and the Israeli television content company HSCC. BBC Storyville will broadcast the documentary in the United Kingdom and Israel’s Hot Channel 8 will air it in Israel.

“The human cost of the Hamas attack in Israel and the war that followed in Gaza has been catastrophic for both Israelis and Palestinians.” said Susan Zirinsky, president of See It Now Studios. “It is a painful story of unfathomable tragedy, but also of bravery, sacrifice, and heroism. This film is a document of history, of one of the attacks that began on October 7th at 6:29 in the morning.”

Steve Menkin, president of Iconic Events Releasing, said “We Will Dance Again” gives audiences “the opportunity to hear these personal accounts and provide insight into exactly what happened on that harrowing day.”

“The importance and profound impact of this extraordinary documentary cannot be doubted and we are honored to bring it to movie theatres nationwide,” he added.

“We Will Dance Again” won two awards at Doc Edge in June, including best international editing and the “In Truth We Trust” category award.

Watch the trailer for “We Will Dance Again” below.