2012 Toronto International Film Festival

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2012 Toronto International Film Festival
2012 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg
Festival poster
Opening filmLooper[1]
Closing filmSong for Marion[2]
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
AwardsSilver Linings Playbook (People's Choice Award)
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films289 feature films and 83 shorts[3]
Festival dateSeptember 6, 2012 (2012-09-06)–September 16, 2012 (2012-09-16)
LanguageEnglish
Websitetiff.net

The 37th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 16, 2012. TIFF announced the films that were accepted on August 21, 2012. On its 37th edition the TIFF included a 289 feature films and 83 short films. Directed by Rian Johnson, Looper was selected as the opening film.[4][5]

Awards[]

Award[6][7] Film Director
People's Choice Award Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
People's Choice Award, First Runner Up Argo Ben Affleck
People's Choice Award, Second Runner Up Zaytoun Eran Riklis
People's Choice Award (Documentary) Artifact Jared Leto
People's Choice Award (Documentary), First Runner Up Storm Surfers 3D and
People's Choice Award (Documentary), Second Runner Up Revolution Rob Stewart
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness) Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), First Runner Up The Bay Barry Levinson
People's Choice Award (Midnight Madness), Second Runner Up John Dies at the End Don Coscarelli
Best Canadian Feature Film Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan
Best Canadian Short Film Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) Deco Dawson
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention Crackin' Down Hard Mike Clattenburg
Best Canadian First Feature Film Antiviral Brandon Cronenberg
Blackbird Jason Buxton
FIPRESCI Discovery Call Girl Mikael Marcimain
FIPRESCI Special Presentations In the House François Ozon
NETPAC Award The Land of Hope Sion Sono

On 17 September 2012, it was announced that David O. Russell's comedy film, Silver Linings Playbook, had been awarded the People's Choice Award.[8] The film, in which Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence appear as "neurotic lovers obsessed with their exes", is based on a novel by Matthew Quick.[8][9] The festival director, Piers Handling, stated that the film is "a deeply emotional story."[10] Ben Affleck's Argo was the runner-up for the prize.[11] Jared Leto's Artifact was given the People's Choice Award for best documentary, while Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths won the Midnight Madness audience award.[8]

Programmes[]

Gala Presentations[]

  • Argo by Ben Affleck
  • The Company You Keep by Robert Redford
  • Dangerous Liaisons by Hur Jin-ho
  • Emperor by Peter Webber
  • English Vinglish by Gauri Shinde
  • Free Angela & All Political Prisoners by Shola Lynch
  • Great Expectations by Mike Newell
  • Hyde Park on Hudson by Roger Michell
  • Inescapable by Ruba Nadda
  • Jayne Mansfield's Car by Billy Bob Thornton
  • Looper by Rian Johnson
  • Love, Marilyn by Liz Garbus
  • Midnight's Children by Deepa Mehta
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mira Nair
  • A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel
  • Silver Linings Playbook by David O. Russell
  • Song for Marion by Paul Andrew Williams
  • Thermae Romae by Hideki Takeuchi
  • Twice Born by Sergio Castellitto
  • What Maisie Knew by Scott McGehee and David Siegel

Special Presentations[]

Documentaries[]

Midnight Madness[]

  • The ABCs of Death - Multiple directors
  • Aftershock - Nicolás López
  • The Bay - Barry Levinson
  • Come Out and Play - Makinov
  • Dredd - Pete Travis
  • Hellbenders - JT Petty
  • John Dies at the End - Don Coscarelli
  • The Lords of Salem - Rob Zombie
  • No One Lives - Ryuhei Kitamura
  • Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonagh

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Vanguard[]

Contemporary World Cinema[]

Masters[]

City To City: Mumbai[]

  • The Bright Day - Mohit Takalkar
  • Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 - Anurag Kashyap
  • Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 - Anurag Kashyap
  • Ishaqzaade - Habib Faisal
  • Miss Lovely - Ashim Ahluwalia
  • Mumbai's King - Manjeet Singh
  • Peddlers - Vasan Bala
  • Shahid - Hansal Mehta
  • Shanghai - Dibakar Banerjee
  • Ship of Theseus - Anand Gandhi

TIFF Kids[]

TIFF Cinematheque[]

  • The Bitter Ash - Larry Kent
  • The Cloud Capped Star - Ritwik Ghatak
  • Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock
  • Loin du Viêtnam - Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
  • Stromboli - Roberto Rossellini
  • Tess - Roman Polanski

Discovery[]

  • 7 Boxes - Juan Carlos Maneglia
  • Augustine - Alice Winocour
  • Blackbird - Jason Buxton
  • Blancanieves - Pablo Berger
  • Boy Eating the Bird's Food - Ektoras Lygizos
  • The Brass Teapot - Ramaa Mosley
  • Burn It Up - Djassa Lonesome Solo
  • Call Girl - Mikael Marcimain
  • Clip - Maja Miloš
  • The Color of the Chameleon - Emil Christov
  • The Deflowering of Eva van End - Michiel ten Horn
  • Detroit Unleaded - Rola Nashef
  • Eat Sleep Die - Gabriela Pichler
  • Fill the Void - Rama Burshtein
  • The Interval - Leonardo Di Costanzo
  • Janeane from Des Moines - Grace Lee
  • Krivina - Igor Drljaca
  • The Land of Eb - Andrew Williamson
  • Mushrooming - Toomas Hussar
  • Nights with Theodore - Sébastien Betbeder
  • Our Little Differences - Sylvie Michel
  • Out in the Dark - Michael Mayer
  • Picture Day - Kate Mellville
  • Satellite Boy - Catriona McKenzie
  • La Sirga - William Vega
  • Tower - Kazik Radwanski
  • Wasteland - Rowan Athale

Short Cuts Canada[]

  • 100 Musicians - Charles Officer
  • A Pretty Funny Story - Evan Morgan
  • American Sisyphus - Frieda Luk
  • Asian Gangs - Lewis Bennett and Calum MacLeod
  • Aubade (L'Aubade) - Carla Susanto
  • Bardo Light - Connor Gaston
  • Barefoot - Danis Goulet
  • Broken Heart Syndrome - Dusty Mancinelli
  • Bydlo - Patrick Bouchard
  • CanoeJacked - Jonathan Williams
  • Crackin' Down Hard - Mike Clattenburg
  • The Dancing Cop - Kelvin Redvers
  • Dear Scavengers - Aaron Phelan
  • Frost - Jeremy Ball
  • The Genius from Quintino - Johnny Ma
  • Herd Leader (Chef de meute) - Chloé Robichaud
  • H'Mong Sisters - Jeff Wong
  • Horrible Things (Les choses horrible) - Vincent Biron
  • How to Be Deadly - Nik Sexton
  • I'm Beginning to Miss You - Sakay Ottawa
  • - Theodore Ushev
  • Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) - Deco Dawson
  • Let the Daylight Into the Swamp - Jeffrey St. Jules
  • Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Stephen Dunn
  • - Bahar Noorizadeh
  • Lost in Motion - Ben Shirinian
  • - Philip Barker
  • Model - Dylan Reibling
  • The Near Future (Le futur proche) - Sophie Goyette
  • Nostradamos - Maxence Bradley
  • - Tess Girard
  • The Pool Date - Patrick Sisam
  • - Martin Thibaudeau
  • Safe Room - Elizabeth Lazebnik
  • Shit Girls Say - Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey
  • Struggle (Faillir) - Sophie Dupuis
  • Sullivan's Applicant - Jeanne Leblanc
  • The Tape - Matt Austin
  • Their Feast (Waleematehom) - Reem Morsi
  • Tuesday - Fantavious Fritz
  • Vive la Canadienne - Joe Cobden
  • When You Sleep - Ashley McKenzie
  • With Jeff (Avec Jeff, à moto) - Marie-Ève Juste
  • The Worst Day Ever - Sophie Jarvis

Canada's Top Ten[]

Features[]

Short films[]

References[]

  1. ^ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "Song for Marion to close Toronto film festival". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  3. ^ "TIFF List 2012: A Complete List of All Films at the Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  4. ^ "Looper to launch Toronto film festival". BBC News. July 24, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  5. ^ "2012 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report". Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  6. ^ "Awards". tiff.net. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  7. ^ "2012 Toronto International Film Festival Awards Announced; SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Among Winners". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  8. ^ a b c Child, Ben (September 17, 2012). "Silver Linings Playbook wins people's choice award at Toronto film festival". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  9. ^ Murphy, Mekado (September 17, 2012). "'Silver Linings Playbook' Wins People's Choice Award in Toronto". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  10. ^ Szklarski, Cassandra (September 17, 2012). "Silver Linings Playbook steals the show at TIFF". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  11. ^ Gordon, Julie (September 17, 2012). "'Silver Linings Playbook' wins top prize at Toronto festival". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  12. ^ Benzine, Adam (July 23, 2012). "Exclusive: TIFF to host Polley's "Stories," Kastner's "Disco"". Realscreen. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  13. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.

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