The Toronto International Film Festival red carpet served as a backdrop for a protest calling for the end of the violence, death and destruction in Gaza on Friday at the world premiere of film that takes the audience back to the 1930s before the creation of the state of Israel, when the territory, then known as British Palestine, was under British colonial rule.

screened at TIFF on Friday at Roy Thomson Hall, where the film's star, Karim Daoud Anaya, posed with a plastic bag, dripping in fake blood, containing a camera and a Palestinian keffiyeh.

Other members of the cast and crew held up Palestinian flags and messages reading "Stop the genocide" at the premiere, which took pace exactly 700 days after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militant attack on Israel that preceded the ongoing Israeli

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