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Subject of October 7 documentary slams decision to remove film from Toronto festival
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Following the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to cancel the screening of a documentary about the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre, the subject of the film calls the decision “absurd and delusional.”
“The Toronto Film Festival has succumbed to pressure and threats, and has chosen to silence and erase October 7,” says retired IDF Major General Noam Tibon. “My message to the festival management: The truth cannot be erased. The atrocities committed by Hamas cannot be erased or denied.”
On Tuesday, the prestigious festival canceled the screening of the documentary, “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue,” reportedly due to legal issues connected with the use of footage from Hamas terrorists in the film.
“The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue” is a documentary about how Tibon went to Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the morning of October 7, 2023, and saved family members and others from terrorists. Tibon’s story has been featured on the US news program “60 Minutes,” and his son, journalist Amir Tibon, whose family Noam saved, has written a book about the story.
“The festival management’s claim that the film cannot be screened because ‘permissions to use’ the footage of the Nukhba terrorists were not obtained is absurd and delusional, and constitutes further harm to the victims,” Tibon says.
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