List of Canadian films of 2017
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This is a list of Canadian films released in 2017:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Abu | Arshad Khan | Documentary | [1] | ||
Adam's Testament | Jason Barbeck, Rafael Kalamat | Luke Bilyk, Frank Chiesurin, Nick Mancuso | Thriller | [2] | |
Adventures in Public School | Kyle Rideout | Judy Greer | Comedy | Premiered as Public Schooled before being retitled | [3] |
Afterwards (Après coup) | Noël Mitrani | Laurent Lucas, Natacha Mitrani | Drama | ||
All You Can Eat Buddha | Ian Lagarde | David La Haye, Richard Jutras, Ludovic Berthillot, Sylvio Arreola, Yaité Ruiz, Alexander Guerrero | |||
Allure | Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez | Evan Rachel Wood | Thriller | Premiered as A Worthy Companion before being retitled | [4] |
The Argument (with annotations) | Daniel Cockburn | Clare Coulter | Experimental | master's thesis | |
Ava | Sadaf Foroughi | [5] | |||
Babe, I Hate to Go | Andrew Moir | Delroy Dunkley | Documentary | [6] | |
Badsville | April Mullen | Drama | |||
Baggage (Bagages) | Paul Tom | Documentary | [7] | ||
Barefoot at Dawn (Pieds nus dans l'aube) | Francis Leclerc | ||||
Beatriz at Dinner | Miguel Arteta | Salma Hayek, Chloë Sevigny, Connie Britton | Comedy | ||
Before Anything You Say | Shelagh Carter | Kristen Harris, Darcy Fehr, John Bluethner, Toni Reimer, Graham Ashmore | Experimental domestic drama | Directors Guild of Canada, Best Manitoban Director | |
A Better Man | Attiya Khan Lawrence Jackman | Documentary | [8] | ||
Bickford Park | Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart | ||||
Bird | Molly Parker | ||||
Birth of a Family | Tasha Hubbard | Journalist Betty Ann Adam and her three siblings | Documentary | Explores consequences of Canada's Sixties Scoop | [9] |
Black Cop | Cory Bowles | Ronnie Rowe | Crime drama | ||
Black Kite | Tarique Qayumi | ||||
Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 | Alain DesRochers | Colm Feore, Patrick Huard | Comedy, crime | Sequel to 2006 film Bon Cop, Bad Cop | [10] |
Bonfires | Martin Bureau | Documentary | |||
Boost | Darren Curtis | Nabil Rajo, Jahmil French, Oluniké Adeliyi | Drama | ||
The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey | Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Kawa Ada, Noorin Gulamgaus, Kane Mahon | Animated | ||
Broken | Lynne Spencer | Documentary | |||
Broken Mile | Justin McConnell | Thriller | |||
Brown Girl Begins | Sharon Lewis | Mouna Traoré, Nigel Shawn Williams, Shakura S'Aida, Rachael Crawford, Measha Brueggergosman | Science fiction | ||
Ça sent la coupe | Patrice Sauvé | Louis-José Houde, Émilie Bibeau, Julianne Côté | Comedy-drama | [11] | |
Canada in a Day | Trish Dolman | Documentary | |||
Cardinals | Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley | Sheila McCarthy, Katie Boland, Grace Glowicki, Noah Reid, Peter MacNeill, Peter Spence | Thriller | [12] | |
The Carter Effect | Sean Menard | Documentary | |||
The Catch | Holly Brace-Lavoie | Charli Birdgenaw | Short drama | [13] | |
Certains de mes amis | Catherine Martin | Documentary | |||
Charles | Dominic Étienne Simard | ||||
Charming | Ross Venokur | Animated | |||
Cielo | Alison McAlpine | Documentary | |||
Creatura Dada | Caroline Monnet | ||||
Crème de menthe | Philippe David Gagné and Jean-Marc E. Roy | ||||
The Crescent | Seth A. Smith | Danika Vandersteen, Woodrow Graves, Terrance Murray, Andrew Gillis, Britt Loder, Andrea Kenyon | Horror | ||
Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols) | Luc Picard | Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau, Anthony Bouchard, Henri Richer-Picard, Alexis Guay, Clare Coulter | Drama | ||
The Crying Conch | Vincent Toi | Short drama | |||
The Curse of Buckout Road | Matthew Currie Holmes | Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Colm Feore, Danny Glover | Horror | [14] | |
Darken | Audrey Cummings | Paul Amos, Ari Millen, Oluniké Adeliyi | Sci-fi, horror | ||
The Devil's Share (La Part du diable) | Luc Bourdon | Documentary | |||
Dolls Don't Cry (Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas) | Frédérick Tremblay | Animated short | [15] | ||
Dolphin Man (L'homme dauphin) | Lefteris Charitos | Documentary | |||
Don't Talk to Irene | Pat Mills | Michelle McLeod, Geena Davis, Anastasia Phillips, Scott Thompson, Bruce Gray | Comedy | ||
The Drawer Boy | Arturo Perez Torres, Aviva Armour-Ostroff | Stuart Hughes, Richard Clarkin, Jakob Ehman | Drama | ||
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas | Larry Weinstein | Documentary | |||
The Drop In | Naledi Jackson | Mouna Traoré, Oluniké Adeliyi | Short drama | ||
Edging | Natty Zavitz | Shomari Downer, Paula Brancati, Parveen Kaur | Comedy | ||
Eye on Juliet | Kim Nguyen | ||||
Fail to Appear | Antoine Bourges | Deragh Campbell | Drama | ||
Fake Tattoos (Les Faux tatouages) | Pascal Plante | Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault | Drama | ||
Father and Guns 2 (De père en flic 2) | Émile Gaudreault | Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Karine Vanasse | Comedy | ||
Filth City | Andy King | Pat Thornton, Kenny Hotz | Comedy | [16] | |
Flood | Amanda Strong | Animated short | [17] | ||
For Nonna Anna | Luis De Filippis | Maya Henry, Jacqueline Tarne | Short drama | ||
Galaxy of Horrors | Various | Various | Science fiction horror anthology film | International productions | |
Garage at Night (Garage de soir) | Daniel Daigle | Guillaume Laurin, Ève Lemieux, Stéphane Messier, Antoine Pilon | Short drama | ||
Ginger Nation | Mitch Fillion | Shawn Hitchins | Documentary, stand-up comedy | ||
Goon: Last of the Enforcers | Jay Baruchel | Seann William Scott, Liev Schrieber, Elisha Cuthbert | Comedy, sports | Sequel to 2011 film Goon | |
Grandmother | Trevor Mack | ||||
Great Great Great | Adam Garnet Jones | Sarah Kolasky, Dan Beirne | Drama | [16] | |
The Green Fog | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Experimental | |||
Gregoire | Cody Bown | Jared Abrahamson, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Ben Cotton | Drama | Winner Best Canadian Narrative Feature - CIFF | |
Heart of a Mountain | Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour | ||||
The Heretics | Chad Archibald | Thriller | [16] | ||
The Hidden River (La rivière cachée) | Jean-François Lesage | Documentary | [18] | ||
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes) | François Girard | Raoul Max Trujillo, Tanaya Beatty, David La Haye | Historical drama | ||
Hollow in the Land | Scooter Corkle | Dianna Agron, Shawn Ashmore, Jared Abrahamson | Thriller | ||
homer b | Milos Mitrovic and Connor Sweeney | ||||
An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking | Sol Friedman | Documentary | |||
In the Waves | Jacquelyn Mills | Documentary | |||
Indian Horse | Stephen Campanelli | Forrest Goodluck, Michiel Huisman, Michael Murphy, Ajuawak Kapashesit | Drama | Adaptation of the novel by Richard Wagamese | |
Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration) | Robert Morin | Christian Bégin | Drama, thriller | ||
Innu Nikamu: Resist and Sing (Innu Nikamu: Chanter la résistance) | Kevin Bacon-Hervieux | Documentary | [19] | ||
It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) | Alexis Durand-Brault | Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault | Drama | ||
Junior Majeur | Éric Tessier | Antoine Olivier Pilon, Rémi Goulet, Alice Morel-Michaud | Drama | [20] | |
Kayak to Klemtu | Zoe Leigh Hopkins | Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Evan Adams, Lorne Cardinal | Drama | [21] | |
Kiss and Cry | Sean Cisterna | Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk | Drama | [22] | |
Latched | Justin Harding and Rob Brunner | ||||
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) | Simon Lavoie | ||||
Lira's Forest | Connor Jessup | ||||
A Little Wisdom | Yuqi Kang | Documentary | [23] | ||
Living Proof | Matt Embry | ||||
Long Time Running | Jennifer Baichwal Nicholas de Pencier | The Tragically Hip | Documentary | ||
Lost Solace | Chris Scheuerman | Science fiction | |||
Luk'Luk'I | Wayne Wapeemukwa | Best Canadian First Feature Film winner at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival | |||
Maison du Bonheur | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Juliane Sellam | Documentary | ||
The Man Who Invented Christmas | Bharat Nalluri | ||||
Manic | Kalina Bertin | Documentary | |||
Marguerite | Marianne Farley | Short drama | |||
Mary Goes Round | Molly McGlynn | Aya Cash, Aaron Poole | Drama | ||
Mass for Shut-Ins | Winston DeGiobbi | Charles William McKenzie, Joey Lee Maclean, Stephen Melanson | Drama | [24] | |
Meditation Park | Mina Shum | Sandra Oh, Liane Balaban, Don McKellar | Drama | ||
Midnight Confession | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos | ||||
Milk | Heather Young | ||||
Miyubi | Felix Lajeunesse | Emily Bergl, P. J. Byrne Richard Riehle, Jeff Goldblum | Virtual reality comedy-drama | ||
Möbius | Sam Kuhn | ||||
Modern Classic | J. M. B. Hunter | Comedy | |||
A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) | François Jacob | Documentary | |||
My Little Pony: The Movie | Jayson Thiessen | Animated | |||
My Mother's Letters (Les lettres de ma mère) | Serge Giguère | Documentary | [25] | ||
Never Steady, Never Still | Kathleen Hepburn | Shirley Henderson, Nicholas Campbell, Théodore Pellerin | Drama | ||
Nuuca | Michelle Latimer | ||||
On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi | Brandon Gross, Skyler Gross | Ruth Blank, Roman Blank | Documentary | ||
Ordinary Days | Jordan Canning, Renuka Jeyapalan, Kris Booth | Jacqueline Byers, Michael Xavier, Richard Clarkin, Torri Higginson, Joris Jarsky | Drama | ||
Origami | Patrick Demers | François Arnaud | Science fiction thriller | [26] | |
Oscillations (Oscillations) | Ky Nam Le Duc | Drama | [27] | ||
The Other Rio (L'autre Rio) | Émilie B. Guérette | Documentary | |||
Our People Will Be Healed | Alanis Obomsawin | Documentary | |||
Palmerston Blvd. | Dan Browne | ||||
Porcupine Lake | Ingrid Veninger | ||||
Pre-Drink | Marc-Antoine Lemire | ||||
Prototype | Blake Williams | ||||
Pyewacket | Adam MacDonald | ||||
Ravenous (Les Affamés) | Robin Aubert | Horror drama | Best Canadian Film winner at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival | ||
Rebels on Pointe | Bobbi Jo Hart | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo | Documentary | [28] | |
The Road Forward | Marie Clements | Michelle St. John, Cheri Maracle, Evan Adams | Musical documentary | [29] | |
Room for Rent | Matthew Atkinson | Brett Gelman, Mark Little, Mark McKinney | |||
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana | Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jesse Ed Davis, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix | Documentary | ||
Rupture | Yassmina Karajah | ||||
Sashinka | Kristina Wagenbauer | Carla Turcotte, Natalia Dontcheva | Drama | ||
Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | ||||
Sebastian | James Fanizza | James Fanizza, Guifré Bantjes-Rafols, Alex House, Brian McCook | Drama | ||
Shadow Nettes | Phillip Barker | ||||
Silas | Hawa Essuman and Anjali Nayar | ||||
A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) | Denis Côté | ||||
Sly Cooper | Kevin Munroe | Animated | |||
Soggy Flakes | Heath Affolter, Jon Affolter, Nathan Affolter, Thomas Affolter | Peter New, Cole Howard | Animated | [30] | |
Stay, I Don't Want to Be Alone | Gabriel Savignac | Documentary | |||
Suck It Up | Jordan Canning | Drama | |||
Sundowners | Pavan Moondi | Phil Hanley, Tim Heidecker, Luke Lalonde, Cara Gee, Nicholas Thorburn | Comedy-drama | [31] | |
Sweet Virginia | Jamie M. Dagg | Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots | Thriller | US-Canada coproduction | |
A Swingers Weekend | Jon E. Cohen | Mia Kirshner, Erin Karpluk, Jonas Chernick | |||
Tadoussac | Martin Laroche | Isabelle Blais, Isabelle Boivin, Serge Boulianne | Drama | ||
Take a Walk on the Wildside | Lisa Rideout | Documentary | Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Short Documentary in 2018 | ||
The Tesla World Light | Matthew Rankin | Robert Vilar as Nikola Tesla | Short film | World premiere at Cannes Film Festival | [32] |
There Is a House Here | Alan Zweig | Lucie Idlout | Documentary | [33] | |
The Things You Think I'm Thinking | Sherren Lee | Prince Amponsah, Jesse LaVercombe | Short drama | ||
Threads | Torill Kove | Animated short | |||
Threesome (Le Trip à trois) | Nicolas Monette | Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Martin Matte | Sex comedy | ||
Touched | Karl R. Hearne | Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery | Psychological thriller | ||
Transformer | Michael Del Monte | Janae Kroc | Documentary | ||
Trench 11 | Leo Scherman | Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober | Horror/War | ||
Unarmed Verses | Charles Officer | Documentary | Winner of Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs | [34] | |
Union Leader | Sanjay Patel | Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome | Drama | Canada-India coproduction | [35] |
Venus | Eisha Marjara | Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb, Gordon Warnecke | Comedy-drama | [36] | |
Voices of Kidnapping (Voces del secuestro) | Ryan McKenna | Documentary | |||
Wall | Cam Christiansen | Animated documentary | |||
We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) | [37] | ||||
We Forgot to Break Up | Chandler Levack | Jesse Todd, Cara Gee, Steven McCarthy, Mark Rendall | Drama | Adapted from the novel Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess | [38] |
Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver) | Sophie Bédard Marcotte | Sophie Bédard Marcotte, Samuel Brassard, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé, Micheline Lanctôt | Comedy | [39] | |
Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera) | Léa Pool | Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean-Simon Leduc | Drama | [40] |
See also
References
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External links
- Feature Films Released In 2017 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb
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