2021 Toronto International Film Festival

2021 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmDear Evan Hansen by Stephen Chbosky
Closing filmOne Second by Zhang Yimou
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded1976
AwardsBelfast (People's Choice Award)
Festival dateSeptember 9–18, 2021
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Toronto International Film Festival

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.[1] Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival was staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital screenings.[2] Most films were screened both in-person and on the digital platform, although a few titles were withheld by their distributors from the digital platform and instead were screened exclusively in-person.

Artistic director Cameron Bailey indicated that while the 2021 festival would not fully return to the size of program that it offered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, it would be significantly bigger than the reduced lineup that was offered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] Overall, the festival featured over 100 films, including a special retrospective program devoted to the work of Canadian documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.[3]