Report: Toronto Film Festival Cancels October 7 Doc, Supposedly over Hamas Copyright to Murder FootageJoel B. Pollak 13 Aug 2025
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has canceled a documentary about the October 7, 2023, terror attack, ostensibly because of concerns that Hamas might have copyright claims to footage it of its murders.
Hamas broadcast footage of its own atrocities while they took place, a unique form of psychological warfare designed to inflict trauma on Israelis and to encourage its supporters among Palestinians in Gaza and abroad.
There is no conceivable way that it could advance legal claims to copyright in a western court, especially as its footage has become part of the public record, but the issue provided TIFF a pretext to cancel an Israeli film.
Deadline reported Tuesday:
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue tells the story about retired Israel Defense Forces General Noam Tibon, who embarked on a heroic mission to save his family, including his two granddaughters, who were surrounded by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, 2023. Tibon also rescued survivors of the music festival massacre and helped wounded Israeli soldiers on his journey to save his family. His story was originally covered by 60 Minutes in October 2023.
Toronto, and Canada, have become increasingly inhospitable to Israel and to Jews in particular, with large anti-Israel demonstrations a regular feature of life, thanks in part to rapidly growing Muslim immigration.
Update: The Times of Israel reported:
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.”
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