TIFF Lightbox features five cinemas, two restaurants, major exhibitions and galleries, a gift shop, a rooftop terrace, and learning studios.

[2] TIFF Lightbox opened as a cinema complex, and included the Toronto International Film Festival offices, a ground-floor restaurant and a rooftop terrace are housed in a five-storey structure on King.

In November 2022, TIFF announced that Cinema 1, the largest screening room at the Lightbox, would be renamed the Viola Desmond Theatre in 2023.

As the new headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival, it contains five cinemas of various sizes, a three-storey public atrium, two galleries, three learning studios, a centre for students and scholars, a bistro, a restaurant, a lounge, a gift shop, and a rooftop terrace.

The area also includes other prominent venues for the festival, such as Roy Thomson Hall and the Scotiabank Theatre.

TIFF Lightbox is supported by contributors including major sponsors Royal Bank of Canada and Visa, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels) and The Daniels Corporation.