‘We Will Dance Again,’ renowned 90-minute documentary detailing Palestinian terror group’s Oct. 7 onslaught at Israeli music festival, altered to align with contentious BBC policy
Nova’s EDM music festival in southern Israel, as seen in Yariv Mozer's documentary film, "We Will Dance Again.” (Courtesy of production)
“We Will Dance Again,” a full-length documentary film about the Hamas massacre of over 360 people at the Supernova music festival during the terror group’s October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel last year, aired on Britain’s BBC2 on Thursday evening, though only after filmmakers agreed not to refer to Hamas as terrorists.
“It was a price I was willing to pay so that the British public will be able to see these atrocities and decide if this is a terrorist organization or not,” said Yariv Mozer, who directed the film, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The UK public broadcaster was broadly criticized in the wake of the cross-border onslaught last year for its refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists, even though the group’s military wing is proscribed by the United Kingdom as such, and even after the widespread documentation of its systematic targeting of civilians that day.
“Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn — who are the good guys and who are the bad guys,” BBC world editor John Simpson said in a column explaining the network’s position a few days after Hamas attacked.
“No one can possibly defend the murder of civilians, especially children and even babies — nor attacks on innocent, peace-loving people who are attending a music festival,” Simpson added.
“We Will Dance Again,” which runs 91 minutes and has also been shown across the world at special screenings and film festivals in recent weeks, delves into festival-goers’ experience during the all-night rave before it was attacked in the morning, and then documents the assault itself and relates the survivors’ efforts to piece together their lives in the aftermath.
