This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2012:
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| A Drop of Love | Golam Mustofa | Marcel Legault, Sabreena Ghaffar Siddiqui, Jarvis Alam, Simon Henri | Romantic comedy | ||||||||
| L'Affaire Dumont | Drama | ||||||||||
| All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles) | Documentary | ||||||||||
| Antiviral | Horror | Made with U.S. financing | |||||||||
| Before My Heart Falls (Avant que mon cœur bascule) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Bestiaire | Documentary | ||||||||||
| Beyond the Walls (Hors les murs) | Drama | [1] | |||||||||
| Blackbird | Drama | ||||||||||
| The Bossé Empire (L'Empire Bossé) | Comedy | ||||||||||
| The Boxing Girls of Kabul | National Film Board Documentary | Best short documentary, 1st Canadian Screen Awards | |||||||||
| Bydlo | Animated short | ||||||||||
| Camera Shy | Comedy | ||||||||||
| Camion | Comedy, drama | Prix Jutra – Actor (Poulin), Musical Score | |||||||||
| Catimini | Drama | ||||||||||
| Cosmopolis | Original Score, Song-1st Canadian Screen Awards; Canada-Italy-France-Portugal co-production | ||||||||||
| Chained | Thriller | Direct to DVD | |||||||||
| Crackin' Down Hard | Short comedy | ||||||||||
| Crimes of Mike Recket | Drama | [2] | |||||||||
| Demoni | Animated short | ||||||||||
| The Disappeared | Drama | ||||||||||
| East Hastings Pharmacy | Shauna Hansen | Docufiction | |||||||||
| Edmond Was a Donkey (Edmond était un âne) | Animated short | ||||||||||
| Ésimésac | Prix Jutra – Costumes | ||||||||||
| Exile (Exil) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Fair Sex (Les Manèges humains) | Drama | ||||||||||
| First Snow (Première neige) | François Bernier, David Boutin, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Benoît Gouin, Louise Latraverse, Marie-Laurence Moreau, Noémie Yelle | Short drama | |||||||||
| For Dorian | Ron Lea, Dylan Harman | Short drama | |||||||||
| Frost | Short drama | ||||||||||
| The Fruit Hunters | Inspired by the book by Adam Gollner; made for TV. | ||||||||||
| Goon | |||||||||||
| Herd Leader (Chef de meute) | Ève Duranceau | Short drama | |||||||||
| Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le Grand ailleurs et le petit ici) | Animated short | [3] | |||||||||
| Herman's House | Documentary | [4] | |||||||||
| High Chicago | Drama | Direct to DVD | |||||||||
| Home Again | Drama | ||||||||||
| In No Particular Order | Comedy-drama | < | -- http://dev.viff.org/guests/kristine-cofsky --> | ||||||||
| Ina Litovski | Short drama | ||||||||||
| Inch'Allah | Drama | Canada-France co-production | |||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||||
| Inescapable | Political drama | Canada-South Africa co-production | |||||||||
| Inner Worlds Outer Worlds | 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 | Documentary | ||||||||||
| Keep a Modest Head (Ne crâne pas sois modeste) | Short documentary | ||||||||||
| Karakara | Drama | ||||||||||
| Krivina | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival world premiere | |||||||||
| Last Chance | National Film Board Documentary | ||||||||||
| Laurence Anyways | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature Film; Cannes Film Festival – Queer Palm, Un Certain Regard, Best Actress (Clément) | |||||||||
| The Lesser Blessed | Drama | ||||||||||
| Let the Daylight Into the Swamp | National Film Board 3D short | ||||||||||
| Letters from Pyongyang | Jason Lee | Jason Lee, Young Tae Lee | Documentary | ||||||||
| Liverpool | Comedy/crime | ||||||||||
| Lowlife | Drama/horror | ||||||||||
| Margarita | Comedy-drama | ||||||||||
| Mars et Avril | Sci-fi fantasy | ||||||||||
| Midnight's Children | Drama | A Canada-U.K. co-production based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. | |||||||||
| Moving Day | Comedy | ||||||||||
| My Awkward Sexual Adventure | Comedy-drama | ||||||||||
| My Real Life (Ma vie réelle) | Alexandre Bryson, Don Karnage, Danny Raymond, Michael Stiverne, Mikerson Stiverne | Documentary | [5] | ||||||||
| The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche | Docudrama | [6] | |||||||||
| The Near Future (Le futur proche) | Patrice Berthomier | Short drama | |||||||||
| Old Stock | Comedy-drama | [7] | |||||||||
| Omertà | Crime drama | Feature film sequel to the 1990s drama series Omertà | |||||||||
| Over My Dead Body | Dave St-Pierre | Documentary | |||||||||
| Payback | National Film Board Documentary | Based on the book | |||||||||
| (Les Pee-Wee 3D) | Sports comedy-drama | ||||||||||
| The People of the Kattawapiskak River | National Film Board Documentary | Attawapiskat housing crisis | |||||||||
| Horror | Canada-German co-production; Golden Reel Award; shot in 3D | ||||||||||
| Rufus | Dave Schultz | Drama/horror | |||||||||
| The Secret Disco Revolution | Documentary | ||||||||||
| Documentary | [8] | ||||||||||
| Horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing | ||||||||||
| Small Blind (La Mise à l'aveugle) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Still Mine | 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 | National Film Board Documentary | Best documentary, Whistler Film Festival | |||||||||
| Stories We Tell | National Film Board Documentary | Premiered at 69th Venice International Film Festival; Documentary-1st Canadian Screen Awards; TFCA – Best Canadian Film | |||||||||
| The Torrent (Le Torrent) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Tower | Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn, Deborah Sawyer | Drama | |||||||||
| Two Hands to Mouth | Art Hindle and an ensemble cast | Dark comedy drama | |||||||||
| The Valley of Tears (La Vallée des larmes) | Drama | ||||||||||
| Vanishing Point | National Film Board Documentary | ||||||||||
| War Witch (Rebelle) | Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film | ||||||||||
| We Were Children | Documenting experiences in the residential school system | ||||||||||
| Where I Am (Là où je suis) | Short drama | [9] | |||||||||
| Wintergreen (Paparmane) | Short comedy-drama | [10] | |||||||||
| With Jeff (Avec Jeff, à moto) | Laury Verdieu, Liridon Rashiti | Short drama | |||||||||
| The World Before Her | Documentary |