Our coverage of the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is drawing to a close. A couple of weeks ago, the festival announced their 2025 award winners. We saw a lot of winners, too, which is great news, since we consider the Toronto festival to be our hometown festival, even though most of our writers now live in other locations around the world. But it all started for us in Toronto, as Kurt Halfyard recounted in his preview feature (linked below): “At a time when movies were still shown on 35mm film, tickets were printed on paper, and Todd Brown asked a few movie nerds in his inner circle to start writing online about experimental filmmakers and global genre spaces that were…