Lessons from TIFF on the next year in film

This year, the Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 6th through the 16th — 10 days of public screenings, industry events, symposiums and lectures, red carpets, and nighttime parties. That may not sound like much, but over the course of those 10 days, TIFF hosted more than 200 films from around the world, from major upcoming awards contenders like Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man to weird little horror indies looking for a probable home on a streaming service somewhere. It’s impossible for anyone to come close to seeing everything at TIFF, even with screenings taking over a dozen venues, typically starting at 8:30AM and running past midnight. So our film team can’t rationally claim we saw the best TIFF…

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