The Palestinian-Israeli conflict rippled through the Toronto International Film Festival in surprising, disruptive and important ways Wednesday as a once-canceled film about Oct. 7 made its splashy premiere to nearly 2,000 ticketbuyers amid a small but intense group of protesters.

The film at the center of the tumult, Barry Avrich ‘s The Road Between Us , is a largely human-centric and apolitical affair, focusing on one Israeli grandfather’s attempt to rescue his family trapped in a Hamas-occupied kibbutz on that fateful day. The grandfather, an even-keeled retired Israeli general named Noam Tibon , recreates the harrowing journey he took as he faced heavy fire and rescued numerous civilians from a murderous fate on the way to his son, daughter-in-law and two toddler granddaughte

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