The first beer of the festival seems eons ago...

Toronto's trendy Drake Hotel was the setting for an all-night party promoting two of the festival's weekend Gala premieres, "Clean" and "Childstar", on Friday night. The band Metric, who are adoringly portrayed by director Olivier Assayas in "Clean", made their stage appearance at 2:30 in the morning, and rocked well into the 4am last call. The festival lives down the star-studded event -- which included many of the films' stars, as well as directors Gus Van Sant and Harmony Korine, and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.