Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us arrives already shrouded in controversy. Its Toronto International Film Festival premiere nearly didn’t happen after organizers briefly pulled it, citing copyright concerns over the use of Hamas’s own live-streamed footage from the Oct. 7 massacres.

I remember that morning well. I’d been invited to a wedding in Jerusalem the next day, a celebration I missed due to prior commitments, but I can vividly recall logging onto Twitter to check the news early on Oct. 7 and watching the first reports of what would become the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Avrich’s documentary returns us to that same morning of terror, seen through the eyes of retired Maj. Gen. Noam Tibon, who embarked on a desperate drive from Tel Aviv to rescue his son’s family in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.