The after party for The Men Who Stare at Goats. Not many people can say they were at a house party on the Bridle Path with George Clooney and Jeff Bridges.

TIFF is toast for 2009, so we asked our team of writers and photographers report back on the best and worst, the scary and the sublime, the hot and the lame of this year’s festival. Here are their harrowing responses.

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Jennifer Garner and Julianne Moore opted for green and strapless, Amanda Seyfried chose sequins and Louboutins, and Drew Barrymore and Demi Moore did yellow in two very different ways. See the red carpet outfits these stars (and 26 others) chose for their TIFF galas in the slide show below.

The Saturday premiere of The Young Victoria was the last chance for autograph seekers and stargazers. We snapped shots of producer Sarah Ferguson, duchess of York, and her daughters,  Eugenie and Beatrice. (We assume royalty isn’t supposed to give autographs since all they did was smile and wave.) But stars Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend (Keira Knightley’s current flame) posed for pics and signed autographs for the entire line while publicists tugged them toward the red carpet.

To see all the photos, view the slide show below.

Jack and Meg White

Jack and Meg White were in town to support the documentary made about their unusual tour through Canada, The White Stripes Under White Great Northern Lights. We were there to catch pictures of them and their celebrity fans on the red carpet. Check out the photos below.

Verne Troyer on the red carpet for the premiere of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus at the Visa Screening Room, during the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday September 18, 2009 (Photo by James Helmer)

The red carpet was wild at the premiere of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, with director Terry Gilliam and actors Tom Waits, Christopher Plummer, Quinn Lord, Andrew Garfield and, last but not least, Verne Troyer (a.k.a. Mini Me). Check out the slide show below.

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Director Claire McCarthy and actors Samrat Chakrabarti and Radha Mitchell hit the red carpet of the Visa Screening Room last night for the premiere of The Waiting City. View the red carpet photos below.

Director Yonfan’s Prince of Tears, which premiered last night at the Visa Screening Room, documents the White Terror in 1950s Tawain. See photos of the director along with stars Terri Kwan and Zhu Xuan on the red carpet below.

Last night was the gala premiere of director Don Roos’s Love and Other Impossible Pursuits at Roy Thomson Hall. We snapped these red carpet photos of Roos along with stars Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow.

Clive Owen stars as father coping with his family after the death of his wife in The Boys are Back. The film, directed by Scott Hicks, premiered last night at the Visa Screening Room. Check out our red carpet photos of the event.

Canada’s sweetheart, Michael Cera, donned a woolly sweater and took to the red carpet at the Visa Screening Room for the premiere of Youth in Revolt. See photos of Cera, co-star Portia Doubleday and director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl) below.

Robin Wright Penn, who plays Pippa in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, walked the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall last night with co-star Keanu Reeves and director Rebecca Miller. See photos from the event below.

Willem Defoe is lit like a vampire at the premiere of Daybreakers (Photo courtesy of Lindt Red Carpet Moments)

Daybreakers, Michael and Peter Spierig‘s new film about a world overrun with vampires, premiered last week at the Toronto International Film Festival. We were there and caught these shots of the directors, and stars Willem Defoe and Sam Neill.

We caught up with the cast and crew of Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Un Prophète) at the Visa Screening Room. See the photos below.

Stephen Poliakoff’s Glorious 39 premiered last night at the Visa Screening Room. Below, our photos of the stars, including Julie Christie, Bill Nighy and Romola Garai, on the red carpet.