The BBC is to broadcast a documentary about the Nova music festival massacre later this month as part of a series of programming to mark the one-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war.

The 90-minute film, Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again will air on BBC Two and iPlayer on September 26, and also air around the world on Paramount+ in the US, Hot Channel 8 in Israel, and Nine Network in Australia.

BBC Storyville describes the film as a “powerful film providing a harrowing glimpse into the assault on partygoers”, including a minute-by-minute account showing how a music festival filled with young, peace-loving, partygoers just wanting to celebrate life, love and music, turned into a massacre.”

The documentary combines CCTV, GoPro, dashcam and mobile phone footage spliced with recordings of emergency calls made by partygoers and testimony from survivors to show how on that morning “confusion turned into fear, and then chaos when Hamas arrived and began to slaughter anyone in sight.”

It forms part of a group of programmes marking the October 7 anniversary and the war between Israel and Hamas. Other programming includes the BBC Storyville documentary, Life and Death in Gaza, produced by BBC Eye, shown on October 15, as well as a Panorama special debuting on October 7 on BBC One.

The film’s director, Yariv Mozer, also known for The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, said he see it as his “duty as a documentary filmmaker to bring to the world the testimonies and horrific stories of the survivors of this slaughter, those who are no longer with us, and the countless who are still captured in Gaza,”

He added it was a story that “needs to be told to honour the victims’ memory, challenge the darkness with light, and reaffirm our unwavering belief in hope, unity, and the enduring human spirit.”

Lucie Kon, commissioning editor at BBC Storyville, said: “I am grateful to the young survivors of the Nova Music Festival who have trusted us to share their experiences of that terrible day, so that BBC viewers can get a sense of some of what they experienced. This is an important film. Director Yariv Mozer and the team have done an extraordinary job in telling this harrowing story.”