Every September, the Toronto International Film Festival transforms Canada’s largest city into a blur of premieres, parties, press lines, and amateur paparazzi. This year brought not one but two Charli XCX films, the latest Knives Out, and the early coronation of Hamnet as an Oscar frontrunner. But while all that played out, we sent photographer Myles Pettengill racing through downtown Toronto to catch the festival’s stars away from the frenzy—in those intimate, in-between moments when no one else was watching but us. ———JUNE SQUIBBACTOR, ELEANOR THE GREATDEREK CIANFRANCE, CHANNING TATUM, and KIRSTEN DUNSTDIRECTOR AND ACTORS, ROOFMANCILLIAN MURPHYACTOR, STEVEDA’VINE JOY RANDOLPHACTOR, ETERNITYBAZ LUHRMANNDIRECTOR, EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERTCOLE ESCOLAIN SUPPORT OF MADDIE’S SECRETJAMES McAVOYDIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’TESSA THOMPSONACTOR, HEDDAKATE BERLANTACTOR, MADDIE’S SECRETGUS VAN SANTDIRECTOR, DEAD MAN’S WIREAZIZ ANSARIDIRECTOR AND ACTOR, GOOD FORTUNEELIZABETH OLSENACTOR, ETERNITYJEREMY O. HARRISCO-WRITER AND PRODUCER, ERUPCJAJOHN EARLYDIRECTOR AND ACTOR, MADDIE’S SECRET, ETERNITYJOACHIM TRIERDIRECTOR, SENTIMENTAL VALUEYUNG LEANACTOR, SACRIFICEFELICITY JONESACTOR, TRAIN DREAMSCOOPER HOFFMANACTOR, POETIC LICENSEMYHA’LAACTOR, SWIPEDMILES TELLERACTOR, ETERNITYSTELLAN SKARSGÅRDACTOR, SENTIMENTAL VALUERIZ AHMEDACTOR, HAMLETIMOGEN POOTSACTOR, HEDDABOB ODENKIRKACTOR, NORMALNICO PARKERACTOR, POETIC LICENSEWAGNER MOURAACTOR, THE SECRET AGENTKERRY CONDONACTOR, TRAIN DREAMSCALLUM TURNERACTOR, ETERNITYNIA DaCOSTADIRECTOR, HEDDAETHAN HAWKEACTOR, BLUE MOONANNA HOPKINSDIRECTOR, DISH PITDUSTIN HOFFMANACTOR, TUNERERIN KELLYMANACTOR, ELEANOR THE GREATBARBIE FERREIRAACTOR, MILE END KICKSSAM RICHARDSONACTOR, SACRIFICEBOBBY CANNAVALEACTOR, BLUE MOONEMILIA JONESACTOR, CHARLIE HARPEREDGAR RAMIREZPRODUCER, IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACASCOREY HAWKINSACTOR, THE MAN IN MY BASEMENTTOM BLYTHACTOR, WASTEMAN, THE FENCERAFFI DONATICHWRITER, POETIC LICENSEMAUDE APATOWDIRECTOR, POETIC LICENSEMALLORI JOHNSONACTOR, STEAL AWAYMIA McKENNA-BRUCEACTOR, THE FENCENINA HOSSACTOR, HEDDAMETHOD MANACTOR, POETIC LICENSEMARY NEELYACTOR, SWIPEDNATALIA REYESACTOR, IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACASANGOURIE RICEACTOR, STEAL AWAYNOAH JUPEACTOR, HAMNETOLIVER LAXEDIRECTOR, SIRATANSON BOONACTOR, GOOD BOYNICHOLAS PINNOCKACTOR, HEDDADIEGO BONETAACTOR, KILLING CASTRORICHARD LINKLATERDIRECTOR, BLUE MOONGRACE GLOWICKIDIRECTOR AND ACTOR, DEAD LOVER and HONEY BUNCHNIKOLAJ LIE KAASACTOR, THE LAST VIKINGTOM BATEMANACTOR, HEDDA