The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2017. There were fourteen programs, with the Vanguard and City to City programs both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition. Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival.

The Toronto International Film Festival was first launched as the Toronto Festival of Festivals, collecting the best films from other film festivals around the world and showing them to eager audiences in Toronto. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl, and Henk Van der Kolk, [ 4 ] the inaugural event took place from October 18 through 24, 1976.

The Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Prizes, currently known as the FIPRESCI Prizes, are film awards presented by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) to films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 5–15, 2024. The festival opened with David Gordon Green 's film Nutcrackers, and closed with Rebel Wilson 's directorial debut film The Deb. The first programming announcements were released on June 18, 2024.