List of Canadian films of 2012
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2012:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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A Drop of Love | Golam Mustofa | Marcel Legault, Sabreena Ghaffar Siddiqui, Jarvis Alam, Simon Henri | Romantic comedy | ||
L'Affaire Dumont | Daniel Grou | Marc-André Grondin, Geneviève Brouillette, Marilyn Castonguay | Drama | ||
All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes) | Bernard Émond | Patrick Drolet, Gilles Renaud, Isabelle Vincent | Drama | ||
Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles) | Hugo Latulippe | Hugo Latulippe, Laure Waridel | Documentary | ||
Antiviral | Brandon Cronenberg | Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell | Horror | Made with U.S. financing | |
Before My Heart Falls (Avant que mon cœur bascule) | Sébastien Rose | Sophie Lorain, Sébastien Ricard, Alexis Martin | Drama | ||
Bestiaire | Denis Côté | Documentary | |||
Beyond the Walls (Hors les murs) | David Lambert | Guillaume Gouix, Matila Malliarakis, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, David Salles, Flonja Kodheli | Drama | [1] | |
Blackbird | Jason Buxton | Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Jeremy Akerman | Drama | ||
The Bossé Empire (L'Empire Bossé) | Claude Desrosiers | Guy A. Lepage, Claude Legault, Élise Guilbault | Comedy | ||
The Boxing Girls of Kabul | Ariel Nasr | National Film Board Documentary | Best short documentary, 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
Bydlo | Patrick Bouchard | Animated short | |||
Camera Shy | Mark Sawers | Nicolas Wright, Gerard Plunkett, David Nykl, Lara Gilchrist, Stephen Lobo | Comedy | ||
Camion | Rafaël Ouellet | Julien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Stéphane Breton | Comedy, drama | Prix Jutra – Actor (Poulin), Musical Score | |
Catimini | Nathalie Saint-Pierre | Émilie Bierre | Drama | ||
Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Emily Hampshire, Sara Gorden, Paul Giamatti | Original Score, Song-1st Canadian Screen Awards; Canada-Italy-France-Portugal co-production | ||
Chained | Jennifer Lynch | Vincent D'Onofrio, Julia Ormond | Thriller | Direct to DVD | |
Crackin' Down Hard | Mike Clattenburg | Nicolas Wright, Yoursie Thomas | Short comedy | ||
Crimes of Mike Recket | Bruce Sweeney | Nicholas Lea, Gabrielle Rose, Agam Darshi, Jillian Fargey | Drama | [2] | |
Demoni | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | |||
The Disappeared | Shandi Mitchell | Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey | Drama | ||
East Hastings Pharmacy | Antoine Bourges | Shauna Hansen | Docufiction | ||
Edmond Was a Donkey (Edmond était un âne) | Franck Dion | Animated short | |||
Ésimésac | Luc Picard | Nicola-Frank Vachon, Marie Brassard, Isabel Richler, Luc Picard, Gildor Roy | Prix Jutra – Costumes | ||
Exile (Exil) | Charles-Olivier Michaud | Francis Cleophat, Paul Doucet, Julie Le Breton, Stephen McHattie | Drama | ||
Fair Sex (Les Manèges humains) | Martin Laroche | Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Marc-André Brunet, Normand Daoust | Drama | ||
First Snow (Première neige) | Michaël Lalancette | François Bernier, David Boutin, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Benoît Gouin, Louise Latraverse, Marie-Laurence Moreau, Noémie Yelle | Short drama | ||
For Dorian | Rodrigo Barriuso | Ron Lea, Dylan Harman | Short drama | ||
Frost | Jeremy Ball | Emily Piggford | Short drama | ||
The Fruit Hunters | Yung Chang | Bill Pullman | Documentary produced with the National Film Board and CBC-TV | Inspired by the book by Adam Gollner; made for TV. | |
Goon | Michael Dowse | Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel | Comedy | ||
Herd Leader (Chef de meute) | Chloé Robichaud | Ève Duranceau | Short drama | ||
Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le Grand ailleurs et le petit ici) | Michèle Lemieux | Animated short | [3] | ||
Herman's House | Angad Singh Bhalla | Jackie Sumell, Herman Wallace | Documentary | [4] | |
High Chicago | Alfons Adetuyi | Colin Salmon, Kevin Hanchard, Karen LeBlanc, Sebastian Pigott | Drama | Direct to DVD | |
Home Again | Sudz Sutherland | Lyriq Bent, Stephan James | Drama | ||
In No Particular Order | Terry Miles & Kristine Cofsky | Kristine Cofsky, Sonja Bennett, Ben Cotton, Mike Dopud, Stephen Lobo, Carmen Lavigne | Comedy-drama | ||
Ina Litovski | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin | Marine Johnson, Geneviève Alarie | Short drama | ||
Inch'Allah | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Evelyne Brochu, Sivan Levy, Sabrina Ouazani | Drama | Canada-France co-production | |
Indie Game: The Movie | James Swirsky & Lisanne Pajot | Documentary | |||
Inescapable | Ruba Nadda | Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr, Fadia Nadda | Political drama | Canada-South Africa co-production | |
Inner Worlds Outer Worlds | Daniel Schmidt & Patrick Sweeney | Documentary | Winner, Award of Excellence, Canada International Film Festival | ||
I, Pet Goat II | Louis Lefebvre | Animated short | Ocelot Robot Film Festival 2012 - Best Short Film | ||
Just As I Remember | Andrew Moir | Documentary | |||
Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) | Deco Dawson | Short documentary | |||
Karakara | Claude Gagnon | Gabriel Arcand, Youki Kudoh | Drama | ||
Krivina | Igor Drljaca | Jasmin Geljo, Goran Slavkovic | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival world premiere | |
Last Chance | Paul-Émile d'Entremont | National Film Board Documentary | |||
Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature Film; Cannes Film Festival – Queer Palm, Un Certain Regard, Best Actress (Clément) | |
The Lesser Blessed | Anita Doron | Joel Evans, Chloe Rose, Kiowa Gordon, Benjamin Bratt | Drama | ||
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp | Jeffrey St. Jules | National Film Board 3D short | |||
Letters from Pyongyang | Jason Lee | Jason Lee, Young Tae Lee | Documentary | ||
Liverpool | Manon Briand | Stéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre Dubé | Comedy/crime | ||
Lowlife | Seth Smith | Chik White | Drama/horror | ||
Margarita | Laurie Colbert, Dominique Cardona | Nicola Correia-Damude, Patrick McKenna, Christine Horne, Maya Ritter | Comedy-drama | ||
Mars et Avril | Martin Villeneuve | Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage | Sci-fi fantasy | ||
Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta | Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Siddarth, Rajat Kappor, Rahul Bose | Drama | A Canada-U.K. co-production based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. | |
Moving Day | Mike Clattenburg | Will Sasso, Gabriel Hogan, Jonny Harris, Charlie Murphy, Victor Garber, Gabrielle Miller | Comedy | ||
My Awkward Sexual Adventure | Sean Garrity | Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manninen | Comedy-drama | ||
My Real Life (Ma vie réelle) | Magnus Isacsson | Alexandre Bryson, Don Karnage, Danny Raymond, Michael Stiverne, Mikerson Stiverne | Documentary | [5] | |
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche | Maya Gallus | Severn Thompson, Deborah Hay | Docudrama | [6] | |
The Near Future (Le futur proche) | Sophie Goyette | Patrice Berthomier | Short drama | ||
Old Stock | James Genn | Noah Reid, Melanie Leishman, Danny Wells, Meghan Heffern | Comedy-drama | [7] | |
Omertà | Luc Dionne | Michel Côté, Rachelle Lefevre, Patrick Huard, René Angélil, Stéphane Rousseau | Crime drama | Feature film sequel to the 1990s drama series Omertà | |
Over My Dead Body | Brigitte Poupart | Dave St-Pierre | Documentary | ||
Payback | Jennifer Baichwal | Margaret Atwood, Raj Patel | National Film Board Documentary | Based on the book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth | |
The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3D) | Éric Tessier | Antoine Olivier Pilon, Alice Morel-Michaud, Julie Le Breton, Guy Nadon | Sports comedy-drama | ||
The People of the Kattawapiskak River | Alanis Obomsawin | National Film Board Documentary | Attawapiskat housing crisis | ||
Resident Evil: Retribution | Paul W. S. Anderson | Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Colin Salmon | Horror | Canada-German co-production; Golden Reel Award; shot in 3D | |
Rufus | Dave Schultz | Rory J. Saper, Kim Coates, David James Elliott, Kelly Rowan, Merritt Patterson, Richard Harmon | Drama/horror | ||
The Secret Disco Revolution | Jamie Kastner | Documentary | |||
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column | Kevin Hegge | Documentary | Profile of the queer punk band Fifth Column | [8] | |
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D | Michael J. Bassett | Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Deborah Kara Unger, Martin Donovan. Malcolm McDowell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sean Bean | Horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing | |
Small Blind (La Mise à l'aveugle) | Simon Galiero | Micheline Bernard, Christine Beaulieu, Julien Poulin | Drama | ||
Still Mine | Michael McGowan | James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold, Jonathan Potts | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival screening only; general release in 2013. Actor (Cromwell)-1st Canadian Screen Awards. | |
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada | Karen Cho | National Film Board Documentary | Best documentary, Whistler Film Festival | ||
Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley | Rebecca Jenkins, Sarah Polley | National Film Board Documentary | Premiered at 69th Venice International Film Festival; Documentary-1st Canadian Screen Awards; TFCA – Best Canadian Film | |
The Torrent (Le Torrent) | Simon Lavoie | Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Dominique Quesnel, Laurence Leboeuf | Drama | ||
Tower | Kazik Radwanski | Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn, Deborah Sawyer | Drama | ||
Two Hands to Mouth | Michael DeCarlo | Art Hindle and an ensemble cast | Dark comedy drama | ||
The Valley of Tears (La Vallée des larmes) | Maryanne Zéhil | Drama | |||
Vanishing Point | Stephen A. Smith & Julia Szucs | Navarana K'avigak | National Film Board Documentary | ||
War Witch (Rebelle) | Kim Nguyen | Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda | Drama about child soldiers | Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film | |
We Were Children | Tim Wolochatiuk | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Documenting experiences in the residential school system | ||
Where I Am (Là où je suis) | Myriam Magassouba | Virginie Léger, Marie Brassard | Short drama | [9] | |
Wintergreen (Paparmane) | Joëlle Desjardins Paquette | Steve Laplante, Sophie Desmarais | Short comedy-drama | [10] | |
With Jeff (Avec Jeff, à moto) | Marie-Ève Juste | Laury Verdieu, Liridon Rashiti | Short drama | ||
The World Before Her | Nisha Pahuja | Documentary |
See also
References
- ^ Lodge, Guy (3 June 2012). "Beyond the Walls". Variety. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
- ^ Glen Schaefer, "Film noir, Vancouver style; Playful, deadpan take on crime thriller genre". The Province, September 27, 2012.
- ^ Maggie Lange, "It Took 240,000 Pins to Make the Most Innovative Short Film of the Year". The Atlantic, December 28, 2012.
- ^ Kevin Ritchie, "Hot Docs 2012: Reimagining the prison flick with Herman’s House". Playback, May 3, 2012.
- ^ Natalia Wysocka, "Ma vie réelle, le dernier documentaire de Magnus Isacsson". Métro, November 29, 2012.
- ^ Robert Bell, "The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche: Maya Gallus". Exclaim!, May 4, 2012.
- ^ Scott A. Gray, "Old Stock, James Genn". Exclaim!, May 30, 2013.
- ^ Matt Thomas, "When queer punk exploded". Xtra Magazine, November 7, 2012.
- ^ Nicolas Gendron, "Coffret 20 Courts et grand talent: Ainsi tournent-elles"]. Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer 2013).
- ^ Nicolas Gendron, "Ainsi tournent-elles". Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 31 No. 3 (Summer 2013). p. 54.
External links
- Feature Films Released In 2012 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb
- 2013 Canadian Screen Awards nominees
- 2013 Canadian Screen Awards winners
- Canada's Top Ten for 2012 (lists of top ten Canadian features and shorts, selected in a process administered by TIFF)
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