TIFF 2011, as usual and for that matter more vigorously takes up the challenge of treating the ‘high’ and ‘popular’ cine viewers alike with the sacred and profane on the tinsel screen from across the world. What all varied and bizarre experiences to which we are exposed to through theses films? Distant worlds and ages,  grotesque territories, forgotten past, unheard cultures, incomprehensible characters, fallen political icons, denuded myths, Spartan warriors who continue to fight for the promised land and a myriad tragic episodes of crimes, love, despair, orphaned childhood, uncared senility and unwept death. They carry us through a thousand births and deaths and leave us wiser about the ‘still sad music of humanity’.