{"id":891246,"date":"2026-09-11T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891246\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:56:11","slug":"51st-annual-toronto-international-film-festival-is-set-to-kickoff-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891246\/","title":{"rendered":"51st annual Toronto International Film Festival is set to kickoff Thursday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                The red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Duane Worth\/CHCH News)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the biggest nights of the year for movie lovers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, as the 51st Annual Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/toronto-accessibility-influencer-on-her-role-in-tiff-opener-being-heumann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto accessibility influencer on her role in TIFF opener \u201cBeing Heumann\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/ontario-science-centre-laying-off-entire-science-department\/\" class=\"nav-item-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8f6d05fa8e3d9a20cc6e7bb5a1f7a83d07f1768ce0ee28aee06cae573f027dd7.jpg-e1789073733441-1024x585.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious CHCH News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOntario Science Centre laying off entire science department\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/tiff-celebrates-opening-night-with-premiere-of-being-heumann\/\" class=\"nav-item-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext CHCH News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTIFF celebrates opening night with premiere of &#8216;Being Heumann&#8217;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Being-Huemann-2026-Apple-TV.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Duane Worth\/CHCH News) It\u2019s one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-891246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}