For the second year in a row, the Toronto International Film Festival has drawn ire over the programming of a controversial documentary that the organizers scheduled, canceled, and then decided to screen after all. Last year, the festival drew ire over the programming of Anastasia Trofimova’s documentary Russians at War , which drew criticism from Ukrainian diplomats as well concerns over the safety of the screening in light of the ongoing war. The programmers canceled then reinstated the screening of the film anyway with heavy security. This year, the festival decided to pull a political documentary, Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue , according to an August 12 report. Avrich’s film tells the story of Noam Tibon, a retired Israeli general, who worked to save

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