2025 Nominees

Supernova: The Festival Massacre

Production Company: Beetz Brothers film production GmbH, Zygote Film

Produced for: KAN, ZDF, ARTE

Executive Producer (Production Company): Reinhardt Beetz, Duki Dror

Executive Producer (network/platform): Danna Stern, Arthur Essebag

Country or Territory where first released: France

Synopsis:

Piecing together dramatic eyewitness accounts from survivors and first responders, with real time footage collated from multiple sources, “Supernova” provides a harrowing and detailed rundown of the massacre carried out by Hamas that took place at the Nova music festival in Re’im, a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7th:

In this moving film, festival attendees and first responders take us through their harrowing stories of survival, the indescribable horrors they witnessed, and their struggle to find their way back to life. Captured in the almost immediate aftermath - their trauma and raw emotions are clearly visible.