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Facing Backlash, Canadian Film Festival TIFF Says It's Still Open to Screening Oct. 7 Documentary - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Toronto International Film Festival removed the Israeli documentary due to rights concerns over Hamas footage but remains open to screening it, festival head said.
- On August 12, TIFF officially uninvited the producers of an Israeli documentary about the October 7 massacre from this year's festival in Canada.
- TIFF demanded legal clearance for all footage, including clips filmed by Hamas terrorists during the mass killing of over 1,200 Israelis, which caused the removal.
- The documentary, 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue,' recounts retired General Noam Tibon's rescue of his family amid the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
- TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey rejected claims of censorship, expressed regret for any distress caused, and emphasized his dedication to collaborating with the filmmaker to fulfill the festival’s screening criteria.
- The removal sparked criticism from Jewish and non-Jewish voices and city council members calling it a moral failure, while TIFF's legal team continues working with the filmmakers.
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The head of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is scrambling to reverse course after a firestorm of criticism over the festival’s decision to pull a documentary on Hamas’s October 7 massacre from its lineup. Cameron Bailey, TIFF’s CEO, issued a statement Wednesday apologizing for the controversy and pledging to work with the filmmakers of The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue to get the movie back on the big screen. “My intention …
Facing backlash, Canadian film festival TIFF says it’s still open to screening Oct. 7 documentary
(JTA) — The head of the Toronto International Film Festival says he is still open to screening an Israeli documentary about Oct. 7 that had been yanked over concerns about disruption and, allegedly, about whether the filmmakers had the right to use footage created by Hamas terrorists as they attacked Israel. Cameron Bailey denied that the film had been rejected over censorship and apologized “for any pain this situation has caused” in a statemen…
After having removed from its programming a documentary on the October 7 attack in Israel, the Toronto festival on its decision Wednesday night
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