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A pair of documentaries about the recent Hamas attacks in Israel made headlines in Cannes this week.

Award-winning Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is prepping a 45-minute special, One Day in October, about the Hamas attack on the music festival in Israel on October 7, with the film set to air on ZDF and ARTE within the next two weeks, filmmakers Duki Dror and Reinhardt Beetz tell World Screen Newsflash.

The Darwish brothers fled Baghdad to Israel in the 1950s and established "Fantasia" - a menorah factory in Tel Aviv's industrial zone. Stirred by the bombing of Baghdad and Tel Aviv in the Gulf War of 1991, director Duki Dror - the son of the youngest of the three brothers - retraces his Iraqi roots. Faced with the reclusive silence of his father, Dror digs up bits of information about the family's past. Finally, his reluctant father divulges a long kept secret. A revelatory family portrait that balances humor with pain.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

It’s a story few listened to the first time. It’s coming around again at a critical juncture. Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror’s new documentary, “The Cassandra Prophecy,” retells the story of “Project Cassandra,” an eight-year operation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency with the assistance of the Israeli Mossad, targeting a six-continent drug-trafficking and money-laundering…