50 moments that made TIFF

Across five decades, the Toronto International Film Festival has fundamentally altered the identity of a city, maybe even a country Barry Hertz Illustrations by Kagan McLeod The Globe and Mail Published 16 minutes ago

All the stars, all the scandals, all the cocaine and all the champagne – none of it would have happened if a Toronto lawyer named Dusty Cohl didn’t snag a primo parking spot in front of Cannes’s Carlton Hotel back in 1960.

That, at least, is the too-good-to-question origin story of the Toronto International Film Festival. It just so happened that the Carlton was the Cannes Film Festival’s boozy, Hollywood-heavy clubhouse and Cohl unwittingly pulled up in the middle of it during a European vacation with his wife. The fateful decision would l

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