This year's Toronto lineup brims with issues now buzzing in the news
As the preeminent gathering for upscale fall cinema, the Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on relevance and social consciousness.
But few editions in the 42-year history of the festival will compare to this one.
The combination of high-profile movies about urgent topics and the feeling of urgency in the world at large is set to give the annual September rite an unprecedented electricity.
When it begins Thursday night with a story of international rivalry and cult-of-hothead-personality (tennis drama "Borg/McEnroe" with Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe) - and continues over the following 10 days with movies about race, environmentalism, globalism, feminism and politics - TIFF will engage with the current moment as few cultural events do.
In the process, the gathering will provide an artistic response and even collective therapy to the roil emanating from
