TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hugh Dillon, a Bono lookalike and Canada’s pretty young things in waiting on the red carpet for the official TIFF opening night party

It was Scarborough-born rapper Kardinal Offishall who had to have been best dressed in an ash-grey suit with eye-popping orange highlights. The lady on Canadian director Robert Lieberman’s arm was wearing a very, uh, distracting dress, and artist Mr. Brainwash of Exit Through the Gift Shop fame made an unexplained yet thoroughly amusing appearance. French director Michel Hazanavicius looked hot as a beardo, with actor and countryman Jean Dujardin by his side. Republic of Doyle’s Allan Hawco rocked the jeans and blazer look, and fellow CBCer Erin Karpluk of Being Erica showed some very toned leg. Of course, Jian Gomeshi was also there (as if you had to ask). Elisabeth Shue and director Davis Guggenheim breezed past the cameras in a matter of seconds, likely burned out from their turn on the carpet at the opening of From the Sky Down earlier that evening. And where was Bono? “They brought him in the back,” whispered our beefy cop friend with an apologetic sigh. “He’s on the balcony.” We scampered off to take a look.