From Film Festival reViews 10-Year Archives: After 31 years, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have a sophisticated Canadian film audience– film lovers willing to line up blocks long at screening venues to see the premieres. They are savvy about How to Festival even at morning screenings (the 9:30 a.m. screening of Dixie Chicks Shut Up and Sing) the line circled the block around Ryerson University.