Leave your politics at the door for The Road Between Us. Despite hand-wringing when the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) seemed first to invite then disinvite and finally re-invite this documentary to host its world première, there’s nothing in the telling that should have either pro- or anti-Israeli factions crying foul.

Barry Avrich, a Canadian workhorse filmmaker (he has almost 60 directing credits in a span of just 30 years, including a short film about the history of TIFF that played on the festival’s opening night), sticks to the facts.

They’re pretty simple. Also, horrific. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists launched a coordinated attack from Gaza on Israel. More than 1,000 people were killed — most of them civilians, more than a quarter female, the youngest just 10 month

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