The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is hosted each September, beginning on the Thursday night after Labour Day, and lasts for ten days.  So, the 33rd annual event will be held on September 4 to 13.  Approximately, 300-400 films are screened at a number of downtown Toronto venues.  TIFF usually attracts over 300,000 people, either for business or pleasure.  Yorkville, a Toronto neighborhood, is where the festival is centered around, with several luxury hotels and movie theaters.  

TIFF was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel and is originally known as “The Festival of Festivals.”  Many notable films had their global or North American premiere at TIFF, such as Juno, American Beauty, Sideways, Crash, Chariots of Fire.