Canada’s top film festival has dropped a Canadian documentary on rescue efforts following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, but says its legal team is working with the filmmakers to try to reinclude it.
“The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue,” directed by Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich, follows the efforts by retired Israel Defense Forces General Noam Tibon to rescue family members from Hamas following the Oct. 7 attack.
In an Aug. 13 statement to The Epoch Times, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) CEO Cameron Bailey declined to get into specifics of why the documentary was dropped but said “the situation calls for compassion and sensitivity” and that “it was never my intention to offend or alienate anyone.”…