Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world.

Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September, in downtown Toronto. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture at the TIFF Lightbox, which serves as a venue for some film screenings during the festival as well as cinematheque film series, commercial art house and independent film screenings, and other specialty film festivals, throughout the year.

The TIFF People's Choice Award – which is based on audience balloting – has emerged as an indicator of success during awards season, especially at the Academy Awards. Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as Chariots of Fire (1981), Life Is Beautiful (1998), American Beauty (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), La La Land (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Green Book (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Nomadland (2020), Belfast (2021) and American Fiction (2023).

TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days. The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 5 through 15, 2024. The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 4 through 14, 2025.

As of 2026, the festival's CEO is Cameron Bailey.

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