Michael Sicinski: Top 12 Films of 2012 (limited to “poll-eligible” films)
[see also The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the Decade, Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018, Top 50 Films of 2018, Top 25 Films of 2017, Top 10 Films of 2016, Top 12 Films of 2014, Top 10 Films of 2013]
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
- Elena — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Keyhole — Guy Maddin
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Keep the Lights On — Ira Sachs
- Two Years at Sea — Ben Rivers
- Let the Bullets Fly — Jiang Wen
- The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo
- In Another Country — Hong Sang-soo
- Oki’s Movie — Hong Sang-soo