'We Will Dance Again' film on Nova massacre wins award at Documentary Emmys
“We Will Dance Again,” a documentary film about the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, won an award Thursday night at the 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
The 90-minute film, produced by Paramount Plus and Hot 8, took home the award for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary. The harrowing documentary chronicles the massacre chronologically, weaving together video footage from phone cameras and Hamas bodycams with survivor testimony. Yariv Mozer, who directed the film, accepted the prize while wearing a yellow hostage pin and a yellow tie on stage at the ceremony in New York City.
“As of tonight, [it has been] 620 days that the Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza have experienced a catastrophic pain because of the war triggered by Hamas on October 7,” Mozer said in his acceptance speech. “‘We Will Dance Again’ is a document of history recording events as they happened.” Mozer noted that the film’s producer, Michal Weits, was wounded this week when an Iranian ballistic missile hit her home in Tel Aviv: “Michal is hospitalized and we wish her a full recovery.”
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“Above all, we dedicate this award to the safe and immediate return of the hostages who are still in Gaza,” Mozer proclaimed on stage. “We want this cycle of bloodshed to end. This war should end. This war should not serve the interests of the Israeli government and the Hamas terror group.” The film beat out four other entries in the category, including the PBS documentary “A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians.”
Mozer, a veteran filmmaker, told The Times of Israel in an interview last year that he made the decision to pursue the film just hours after the massacre began, and was allowed to visit the site of the rave just two days later. He also combed through videos on social media, finding clips posted by survivors and victims who were desperately cataloguing what many believed to be the last moments of their lives.
“They were in a situation where no one was answering them, no one was helping them,” the director said last year. “So they picked up their phones to have a kind of communication with the world, to connect, because they thought, ‘I may not be alive in another minute, and everyone will see and understand that I was in this situation.’”
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