Sure, we're all excited about the opening night gala of Creation at Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday night, but the truth is, the first film screening at TIFF this year has three very important and little know facts.

 1. It is Canadian

2. It's FREE!

3. It's a short!

 As part of the Yonge Dundas Square activities, the first of the free noon hour films is 'Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man'. And to celebrate this film and the NFB's 70th anniversary, we're preceding the feature with a great short film by the NFB called POEN, released 1967 by director Josef Reeve. If you've never had a chance to see this great short featuring Cohen's poetry from 'Beautiful Losers'. there's no better opporunity than this Thursday (september 10) at noon in the sunshine at Dundas Square.

I can't think of a better way to kick off TIFF.