The Toronto International Film Festival is a public film festival that takes place every September in Toronto. Since the mid-70s this festival has simultaneously focused on the best international cinema has to offer and the best of what's being made here at home; on discovering new talent and promoting new works from filmmaking masters; on giving a venue to artistic experiments and providing buzz-creating crowd-pleasers; and most importantly on giving the people who make films a chance to do business while giving the people who love films a chance to be in on the action