As Toronto film festival goes mask-optional, attendees fear event becomes coronavirus ‘superspreader’

TEHRAN.(Iranart) – While the Venice Film Festival and major US cinema chains have mandated face masks during movie screenings to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Toronto International Film Festival — which is offering both in-person and virtual screenings —adopted a more relaxed stance that makes masking up compulsory in its TIFF Bell Lightbox venue, but not “when seated in-cinema.”