2012 Toronto International Film Festival

On 17 September 2012, it was announced that David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama film, Silver Linings Playbook, had been awarded the People's Choice Award.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/17/silver-linings-playbook-toronto-film-festival|title=Silver Linings Playbook wins people's choice award at Toronto film festival|last=Child|first=Ben|date=September 17, 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=September 18, 2012|location=London}} 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.{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/silver-linings-playbook-wins-peoples-choice-award-in-toronto/|title='Silver Linings Playbook' Wins People's Choice Award in Toronto|last=Murphy|first=Mekado|date=September 17, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 18, 2012}} The festival director, Piers Handling, stated that the film is "a deeply emotional story."{{cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Silver+Linings+Playbook+steals+show+TIFF/7252389/story.html|title=Silver Linings Playbook steals the show at TIFF|last=Szklarski|first=Cassandra|date=September 17, 2012|publisher=The Vancouver Sun|access-date=September 18, 2012}} Ben Affleck's Argo was the runner-up for the prize.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/silver-linings-playbook-wins-top-prize-at-toronto-festival-8144196.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917101147/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/silver-linings-playbook-wins-top-prize-at-toronto-festival-8144196.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 17, 2012|title='Silver Linings Playbook' wins top prize at Toronto festival|last=Gordon|first=Julie|date=September 17, 2012|work=The Independent|access-date=September 18, 2012|location=London}} 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.

• 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

• 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{{cite news|first=Adam|last=Benzine|title=Exclusive: TIFF to host Polley's "Stories," Kastner's "Disco"|url=http://realscreen.com/2012/07/23/exclusive-tiff-to-host-polleys-stories-kastners-disco|access-date=18 September 2012|newspaper=Realscreen|date=23 July 2012}}
• 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

• 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 - Dan Setton
• Storm Surfers 3D - Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan
• The Walls of Dakar - Abdoul Aziz Cissé

• 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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• 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

• 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
• 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 - Licínio 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

• 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

• 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

• Ernest & Célestine - Benjamin Renner
• Finding Nemo 3D - Andrew Stanton
• Hotel Transylvania - Genndy Tartakovsky
• Igor & the Cranes' Journey - Evgeny Ruman

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Joda - 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
• Lingo - Bahar Noorizadeh
• Lost in Motion - Ben Shirinian
• Malody - Philip Barker
• Model - Dylan Reibling
• The Near Future (Le futur proche) - Sophie Goyette
• Nostradamos - Maxence Bradley
• Old Growth - Tess Girard
• The Pool Date - Patrick Sisam
• Reflexions - 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

• 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

• Bydlo, Patrick Bouchard
• Crackin' Down Hard, Mike Clattenburg
• Herd Leader (Chef de meute), Chloé Robichaud
• Kaspar, Diane Obomsawin
• Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste), Deco Dawson
• Lingo, Bahar Noorizadeh
• Malody, Phillip Barker
• Old Growth, Tess Girard
• Reflexions, Martin Thibaudeau
• Wintergreen (Paparmane), Joëlle Desjardins Paquette

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