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    1. heavierthanlead on

      Toronto has a huge Ukrainian community. GTFO, Russian shills.

    2. meetgeorgejetson10 on

      Organizers cited “significant threats to festival operations and public safety” as the reason for the cancellation but also stated they “support civil discourse about and through films, including differences of opinion.”

    3. Bougdane on

      Finally. What a disgrace that we are here in the first place

    4. MrsWaterbuffaIo on

      The respectful public demonstration is till happening as planned on Fri,at Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto. Notice how TIFF and the Russian-Canadian Director has tried to make themselves as the victims in all of this citing threats and public safety. Typical Russian propaganda, Russians are the victims in Ukraine and apparently in Canada. With Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadians as the aggressors in both countries. Have no doubt, TIFF will attempt to air this at a later date.

    5. CaramelCritical5906 on

      Suspended, NOT cancelled!!! TIFF will try to screen it again!!!
      Disgraceful!!!!

    6. KindContact4355 on

      Next Goal? The director in her own feature film ‘my return to Mordor’

    7. faceless_anonymous on

      I have been waiting for good news like this. Congratulations to everyone involved, especially the peaceful protesters!

      This is whole situation with the Russian propaganda film has been widely recognized and condemned in Canada, Chrystia Freeland said it best recently when she called it out a few days ago: [https://nationalpost.com/video/9752c9dc-6faf-11ef-aaa5-1e0c1d8a77ee/freeland-critical-of-russian-soldiers-film-amid-tiff-protest](https://nationalpost.com/video/9752c9dc-6faf-11ef-aaa5-1e0c1d8a77ee/freeland-critical-of-russian-soldiers-film-amid-tiff-protest)

    8. Humanizing invaders from the most unhinged dictatorship in Europe while the conflict had not even reached its peak stage of violence. What can go wrong?

    9. 8livesdown on

      I wish the organizers had voluntarily pulled the film, but suspension due to threats of violence is the wrong reason, and probably worse for Ukraine than it is for Russia; especially for Ukrainians living in Toronto.

      Pulling the film, especially under these conditions, will only draw more attention and capture a wider audience. The internet is already full of Russian propaganda. This film would’ve been ignored if detractors hadn’t given it so much free publicity.

    10. “Threats?”

      Fuck that.

      They are suspending the screening because the film is by all accounts garbage.

      A film about loyal soldiers in an invading army tasked with destruction, depicting how they are the real victims in all this?

      Come on, that doesn’t even pretend to hold up.

      There are so many documentaries that could be made about Russian soldiers. Russian POWs who refuse to be repatriated — gee I wonder why? Soldiers in the Free Legion fighting under the white-blue-white flag — why? Russian soldiers who want to disclose Russian war crimes against Ukraine. So many more. A filmmaker could find so many ways to meet the documentarian’s calling to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”

      And yet this filmmaker chose to make *that* documentary?

    11. baconjeepthing on

      I’m honestly glad for the “threats” how blind can a organization be to allow that

    12. Smooth_Imagination on

      Their next film idea should be to interview WW2 concentration camp survivors who had surprisingly nice experiences of the camp, and Gulag Parks, showing people on working holidays with nice amenities.

    13. spinyfur on

      >In a social media post on Thursday, he said TIFF’s move to cease screenings of Russians at War “by a former Russia Today documentary filmmaker is the only right decision.”

      Hold up… this movie was made by an RT “documentary” maker and they were seriously planning to show it?

    14. EarStigmata on

      Took them long enough…let’s fuck up our reputation and look like a Kremlin mouthpiece, then *not* play the film!

      Brilliant!!

    15. DistortionPie on

      I myself sent a few choice words of disgust to TIFF a few times. Not threats , just utter disgust and I work in film in canada and mentioned how many producers I know that are also extremely mad about this.

    16. DarknessEnlightened on

      If they were actually threatened, that’s wrong. Either way, they should never screen it and no part of the civilized world should associate with RT.

    17. _x_x_x_x_x on

      Yanukovych said the same thing and then left to Rostov, maybe canadians will get lucky?

    18. Top-Stop7655 on

      Well done all involved in pressurising these stool pigeons to pull their propaganda movie

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