2012 Toronto International Film Festival
Opening film | Looper[1] |
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Closing film | Song for Marion[2] |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Awards | Silver Linings Playbook (People's Choice Award) |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 289 feature films and 83 shorts[3] |
Festival date | September 6, 2012 | –September 16, 2012
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
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 |
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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[]
- Anna Karenina by Joe Wright
- Antiviral by Brandon Cronenberg
- Arthur Newman by Dante Ariola
- At Any Price by Ramin Bahrani
- The Attack by Ziad Doueiri
- Bad 25 by Spike Lee
- Byzantium by Neil Jordan
- Capital by Costa-Gavras
- Cloud Atlas by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
- The Deep by Baltasar Kormákur
- Disconnect by Henry Alex Rubin
- Do Not Disturb by Yvan Attal
- Dormant Beauty by Marco Bellocchio
- Dreams for Sale by Nishikawa Miwa
- End of Watch by David Ayer
- Everybody Has A Plan by Ana Piterbarg
- Foxfire by Laurent Cantet
- Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach
- Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter
- Greetings from Tim Buckley by Dan Algrant
- Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta
- The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg
- The Iceman by Ariel Vromen
- Imogene by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
- The Impossible by J.A. Bayona
- In the House by François Ozon
- Inch'Allah by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
- Kon-Tiki by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
- The Last Supper by Lu Chuan
- A Late Quartet by Yaron Zilberman
- Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan
- A Liar's Autobiography — The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman by Ben Timlett
- Lines of Wellington by Valeria Sarmiento
- Liverpool by Manon Briand
- Lore by Cate Shortland
- Love is All You Need by Susanne Bier
- The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Mr. Pip by Andrew Adamson
- Much Ado About Nothing by Joss Whedon
- No by Pablo Larraín
- On The Road by Walter Salles
- Outrage Beyond by Takeshi Kitano
- The Paperboy by Lee Daniels
- Passion by Brian De Palma
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Place Beyond the Pines by Derek Cianfrance
- Quartet by Dustin Hoffman
- Reality by Matteo Garrone
- War Witch (Rebelle) by Kim Nguyen
- Rhino Season by Bahman Ghobadi
- Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard
- The Sapphires by Wayne Blair
- The Sessions by Ben Lewin
- The Son Did It by Daniele Ciprì
- Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine
- Still by Michael McGowan
- Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley[12]
- The Suicide Shop by Patrice Leconte
- Tai Chi by Stephen Fung
- Thanks for Sharing by Stuart Blumberg
- Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller
- The Time Being by Nenad Cicin-Sain
- To the Wonder by Terrence Malick
- Venus and Serena by Maiken Baird
- White Elephant by Pablo Trapero
- Writers by Josh Boone
- Yellow by Nick Cassavetes
- Zaytoun by Eran Riklis
Documentaries[]
- 9.79* - Daniel Gordon
- A World Not Ours - Mahdi Fleifel
- The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer
- Artifact - Bartholomew Cubbins
- As if We Were Catching a Cobra - Hala Alabdalla
- Camp 14–Total Control Zone - Marc Wiese
- The Central Park Five - Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns
- Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story - Brad Bernstein
- First Comes Love - Nina Davenport
- The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh
- The Girl from the South - José Luis García
- How to Make Money Selling Drugs - Matthew Cooke
- Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp - Jorge Hinojosa
- London – The Modern Babylon - Julien Temple
- Lunarcy! - Simon Ennis
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God - Alex Gibney
- Men At Lunch - Seán Ó Cualáin
- More Than Honey - Markus Imhoof
- No Place on Earth - Janet Tobias
- Reincarnated - Andrew Capper
- Revolution - Rob Stewart
- Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out - Marina Zenovich
- The Secret Disco Revolution - Jamie Kastner
- Shepard & Dark - Treva Wurmfeld
- Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky - Barry Avrich
- State 194 -
- Storm Surfers 3D - Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan
- The Walls of Dakar - Abdoul Aziz Cissé
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
Vanguard[]
- 90 Minutes - Eva Sørhaug
- Beijing Flickers - Zhang Yuan
- Berberian Sound Studio - Peter Strickland
- Blondie - Jesper Ganslandt
- Here Comes the Devil - Adrian Garcia Bogliano
- I Declare War - Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson
- iLL Manors - Ben Drew
- Motorway - Soi Cheang
- Painless - Juan Carlos Medina
- Peaches Does Herself - Peaches
- Pusher - Luis Prieto
- Room 237 - Rodney Ascher
- Sightseers - Ben Wheatley
- Thale - Aleksander Nordaas
- The We and the I - Michel Gondry
Contemporary World Cinema[]
- 3 - Pablo Stoll Ward
- After the Battle - Yousry Nasrallah
- All That Matters Is Past - Sara Johnsen
- Baby Blues - Katarzyna Rosłaniec
- Barbara - Christian Petzold
- Bwakaw - Jun Robles Lana
- Camion - Rafaël Ouellet
- Children of Sarajevo - Aida Begic
- Clandestine Childhood - Benjamín Ávila
- Comrade Kim Goes Flying - Anja Daelemans
- The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky - Yuki Tanada
- The Cremator - Peng Tao
- The Crimes of Mike Recket - Bruce Sweeney
- Dead Europe - Tony Krawitz
- Dust - Julio Hernández Cordón
- Eagles - Dror Sabo
- Fin - Jorge Torregrossa
- The Fitzgerald Family Christmas - Edward Burns
- Fly with the Crane - Li Ruijun
- Ghost Graduation - Javier Ruiz Caldera
- God Loves Caviar - Yannis Smaragdis
- Gone Fishing - Carlos Sorín
- The Great Kilapy - Zézé Gamboa
- A Hijacking - Tobias Lindholm
- Him, Here, After - Asoka Handagama
- The Holy Quaternity - Jan Hřebejk
- Home Again - Sudz Sutherland
- Imagine - Andrzej Jakimowski
- In the Fog - Sergei Loznitsa
- In the Name of Love - Luu Huynh
- Jackie - Antoinette Beumer
- Jump - Kieron J. Walsh
- Just the Wind - Bence Fliegauf
- Juvenile Offender - Yikwan Kang
- Key of Life - Kenji Uchida
- Kinshasa Kids - Marc-Henri Wajnberg
- The Land of Hope - Sion Sono
- The Lesser Blessed - Anita Doron
- Middle of Nowhere - Ava DuVernay
- Museum Hours - Jem Cohen
- My Awkward Sexual Adventure - Sean Garrity
- Once Upon a Time Was I, Verônica - Marcelo Gomes
- Paradise: Love - Ulrich Seidl
- The Patience Stone - Atiq Rahimi
- Penance - Kioshi Kurosawa
- Peripeteia - John Akomfrah
- Road North - Mika Kaurismäki
- Shores of Hope - Toke Constantin Hebbeln
- Sleeper's Wake - Barry Berk
- Smashed - James Ponsoldt
- The Thieves - Choi Dong-hoon
- Three Kids - Jonas d'Adesky
- Three Worlds - Catherine Corsini
- Thy Womb - Brillante Mendoza
- The Tortoise, An Incarnation - Girish Kasaravalli
- Underground: The Julian Assange Story - Robert Connolly
- Virgin Margarida - Licinio Azevedo
- Watchtower - Pelin Esmer
- A Werewolf Boy - Jo Sung-hee
- What Richard Did - Lenny Abrahamson
- When I Saw You - Annemarie Jacir
- Zabana! - Saïd Ould-Khelifa
Masters[]
- Amour - Michael Haneke
- Beyond the Hills (Dupa Dealuri) - Cristian Mungiu
- The End of Time - Peter Mettler
- Everyday - Michael Winterbottom
- Gebo and the Shadow (Gebo et l'ombre) - Manoel de Oliveira
- In Another Country (Da-Reun Na-ra-e-suh) - Hong Sang-soo
- Like Someone in Love - Abbas Kiarostami
- Me and You - Bernardo Bertolucci
- Night Across the Street (La Noche de Enfrente) - Raúl Ruiz
- Pietà - Kim Ki-duk
- Something in the Air (Après mai) - Olivier Assayas
- Student - Darezhan Omirbayev
- Tout ce que tu possèdes (All That You Possess) - Bernard Émond
- When Day Breaks - Goran Paskaljevic
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[]
- Ernest & Célestine - Benjamin Renner
- Finding Nemo 3D - Andrew Stanton
- Hotel Transylvania - Genndy Tartakovsky
- Igor & the Cranes' Journey - Evgeny Ruman
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[]
- Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg
- The End of Time, Peter Mettler
- Goon, Michael Dowse
- Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan
- Midnight's Children, Deepa Mehta
- My Awkward Sexual Adventure, Sean Garrity
- War Witch (Rebelle), Kim Nguyen
- Still Mine, Michael McGowan
- Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley
- The World Before Her, Nisha Pahuja
Short films[]
- Bydlo, Patrick Bouchard
- Crackin' Down Hard, Mike Clattenburg
- Herd Leader (Chef de meute), Chloé Robichaud
- , Diane Obomsawin
- Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste), Deco Dawson
- ,
- , Phillip Barker
- , Tess Girard
- ,
- (Paparmane),
References[]
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- ^ "TIFF List 2012: A Complete List of All Films at the Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
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- ^ "Awards". tiff.net. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^ "2012 Toronto International Film Festival Awards Announced; SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Among Winners". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
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