{"id":424680,"date":"2025-09-14T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:48:14","slug":"oct-7-movie-the-road-between-us-wins-peoples-choice-at-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424680\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 7 Movie ‘The Road Between Us’ Wins People\u2019s Choice at Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe controversial and zig-zagging journey for the Oct. 7 rescue movie The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue had another twist on Sunday when it picked up <\/a>the People\u2019s Choice award for best documentary at the Toronto Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Barry Avrich\u2019s documentary is about a retired Tel Aviv general driving through great danger to save his son\u2019s family at a kibbutz near Gaza\u00a0on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo win this award is thrilling for Mark and I. The audience voted and I appreciate that. And we look forward to the rest of this journey,\u201d Avrich said while accepting the doc audience award trophy at the Lightbox theater alongside producer Mark Selby. The Canadian documentary <\/a>centers on retired Israeli general Noam Tibon rescuing his family, including his son, from Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023 when they invaded kibbutz Nahal Oz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Road Between Us generated buzz at TIFF with a world premiere that sparked pre-festival programming intrigue, cheers during a single Roy Thomson Hall screening on Sept. 10 and a tense protest <\/a>amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/a> involving supporters from both sides outside the high profile Toronto festival venue.<\/p>\n

\n\tTIFF organizers first invited Avrich\u2019s film for its 2025 edition, and then disinvited the title, only to then reinstated the film after an outcry from the Canadian Jewish community and politicians and influencers in Israel. Eventually, Avrich and TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey<\/a> settled their differences over \u201csafety, legal and programming concerns\u201d to allow the world premiere for the documentary to go ahead during the 50th edition.<\/p>\n

\n\tFest organizers raised early flags that clearances for footage of terrorist attacks taken by Hamas cameras and included in the documentary had not been obtained. It\u2019s understood that security concerns over a possible protest against the Israel Oct. 7 film also were in play.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd Cameron, thank you. I appreciate everything that TIFF has done for us,\u201d a magnanimous\u00a0Avrich said Sunday morning as he turned to Bailey on the Lightbox stage after accepting the award. For his part, producer Selby added in his own acceptance remarks: \u201cI hope that all the filmmakers of this festival feel as supported as Barry and I did during this whole process.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Road Between Us will be mostly self-released <\/a>on around 125 screens in more than 20 cities throughout North America beginning Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversial and zig-zagging journey for the Oct. 7 rescue movie The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[145010,77,7163,3943,138490,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cameron-bailey","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-toronto-film-festival","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115204856572044669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}