Toronto 2011: 'Where Will We Go Ahead Now?A Wins Audience Award

Participants from the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival have chosen to award the 2011 Cadillac Individuals Choice Award, the festival's greatest recognition, to Nadine Labaki's Where Will We Go Ahead Now?, a Lebanese drama that opened in the Cannes Film Festival in May and it is still seeking domestic distribution. Where Will We Go Ahead Now? won over many other popular options including Jonathan Levine's 50/50, Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, Jim Area Cruz's Butter, Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Jennifer Westfeldt's Buddies with Kids, Luc Besson's The Woman, Bennett Burns's Moneyball, Dee Rees's Pariah, Oren Moverman's Rampart, Steve McQueen's Shame, and Shaun Nichols's Take Shelter. PHOTOS: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to understand Labaki's film follows women of various religious organizations who band together and turn to state-of-the-art and surprising schemes in order to save their community from giving up to violence. TIFF's audience award has been around since 1978. The majority of its 33 previous those who win continued to garner attention in the Academy - they've paid for for 105 nominations (including 10 for the best picture for 9 for the best language film), 39 which led to wins (including 4 for the best picture and 5 for the best language film) - that has assisted to cement TIFF's status among the first important stops around the honours trail. (For any full report on previous TIFF audience award those who win, and just how they worked out in the Academy awards, click the link.) Toronto Worldwide Film Festival