List of Canadian films of 2017

This is a list of Canadian films released in 2017:

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes	Ref
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
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		[11]
The Carter Effect	Sean Menard		Documentary
The Catch	Holly Brace-Lavoie	Charli Birdgenaw	Short drama		[12]
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		[13]
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		[14]
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
Far Away Lands (Les Terres lointaines)	Félix Lamarche		Documentary		[15]
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 Schreiber, 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				[30]
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 Men (Nos hommes dans l'ouest)	Renée Blanchar		Documentary		[31]
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		[32]
SpnsorLand	Michèle Hozer		Documentary
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		[33]
Squat (Ailleurs)	Samuel Matteau	Noah Parker, Théodore Pellerin	Drama		[34]
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	[35]
There Is a House Here	Alan Zweig	Lucie Idlout	Documentary		[36]
The Things You Think I'm Thinking	Sherren Lee	Prince Amponsah, Jesse LaVercombe	Short drama
This Is Our Cup (Ça sent la coupe)	Patrice Sauvé	Louis-José Houde, Émilie Bibeau, Julianne Côté	Comedy-drama		[37]
Threads	Torill Kove		Animated short
Threesome (Le Trip à trois)	Nicolas Monette	Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Martin Matte	Sex comedy
A Touch of Spring (Un printemps d'ailleurs)	Xiaodan He		Drama		[38]
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	[39]
Union Leader	Sanjay Patel	Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome	Drama	Canada-India coproduction	[40]
Venus	Eisha Marjara	Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb, Gordon Warnecke	Comedy-drama		[41]
Voices of Kidnapping (Voces del secuestro)	Ryan McKenna		Documentary
Wall	Cam Christiansen		Animated documentary
We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres)					[42]
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	[43]
Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver)	Sophie Bédard Marcotte	Sophie Bédard Marcotte, Samuel Brassard, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé, Micheline Lanctôt	Comedy		[44]
Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera)	Léa Pool	Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean-Simon Leduc	Drama		[45]

See also

• 2017 in Canada
• 2017 in Canadian television

References

1. Aparita Bhandari, "In his feature debut, documentary filmmaker Arshad Khan opens his living room to the world". The Globe and Mail , March 29, 2018.
2. "Toronto filmmakers hire Ryerson students to job shadow the crew on Adam's Testament film shoot". Toronto Star , July 6, 2015.
3. Vlessing, Etan (August 9, 2017). "Toronto: Netflix's 'Alias Grace,' Judy Greer's 'Public Schooled' Added to Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
4. Gleiberman, Owen (September 13, 2017). "Toronto Film Review: 'A Worthy Companion'". Variety . Retrieved November 6, 2017.
5. The Canadian Press (31 January 2018). "Sadaf Foroughi's 'Ava' wins best first feature film from Canadian Screen Awards". National Post . Postmedia Network . Retrieved 14 June 2018.
6. "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario". CBC News London, July 19, 2017.
7. Lisa-Marie Gervais, "«Bagages» — Lever le rideau sur des parcours migratoires". Le Devoir , December 9, 2017.
8. Scheck, Frank (8 May 2017). "'A Better Man': Film Review | Hot Docs 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
9. Deerchild, Rosanna (23 April 2017). "Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard's personal connection to the Sixties Scoop". Unreserved . CBC Radio. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
10. "«Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2»: une affiche pour rassurer l'Amérique". Le Journal de Montréal , November 8, 2016.
11. Chris Knight, "Everyone did it in Cardinals, a dark, Canadian crime drama". National Post , August 29, 2018.
12. Alice Chantal Tchandem Kamgang, "The Catch : le court métrage québécois s'imposera-t-il à Berlin ?". Radio Canada International, February 10, 2017.
13. Miska, Brad (1 October 2019). "Exclusive 'The Curse of Buckout Road' Clip Ends with a Vicious Stabbing [Video]". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 13 December 2020.
14. Jason Sondhi, "Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas (Dolls Don't Cry)". Short of the Week, June 12, 2019.
15. Marie-Hélène Mello, "Huis clos dans le vaste: Les Terres lointaines de Félix Lamarche". Ciné-Bulles , Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring 2017), p. 51.
16. "Canadian Film Fest opens for patriotic moviegoers: Projections". Toronto Star , March 17, 2017.
17. Anna Dimoff, "Animated short film tells story of Indigenous youth combating colonial influence". CBC News British Columbia, December 10, 2017.
18. François Lévesque, "«La rivière cachée»: des vies comme une rivière". Le Devoir , May 25, 2018.
19. Caroline Montpetit, "Innu Nikamu: chanter la résistance". Le Devoir , May 4, 2018.
20. Marc-André Lussier  [ fr ], "Junior majeur: tu n'es plus un pee-wee, mon fils". La Presse , November 20, 2017.
21. Alison Gillmor, "Movie pushes environmental message: Kayak to Klemtu a protest against supertankers, pipelines in First Nations territories". Winnipeg Free Press , August 11, 2018.
22. Norman Wilner, "Kiss And Cry packs an emotional wallop". Now , February 8, 2017.
23. Marc Glassman, "More than a Little Wisdom". Point of View , April 26, 2018.
24. Adrian Mack, "VIFF 2017: Nova Scotia's Mass For Shut-Ins follows 20-something in impoverished New Waterford". The Georgia Straight , September 29, 2017.
25. André Lavoie, "«Les lettres de ma mère»: la batailleuse". Le Devoir , March 17, 2018.
26. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Origami – Film de Patrick Demers". Films du Québec, April 17, 2018.
27. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Oscillations – Film de Ky Nam Le Duc". Films du Québec, October 21, 2018.
28. "Review: 'Rebels on Pointe,' and in Tutus". The New York Times , November 15, 2017.
29. "The Road Forward: an innovative documentary explores Indigenous activism through songs". CBC Radio. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
30. "Rupture: a Syrian cast of young first-time actors and war survivors". CBC News British Columbia, October 7, 2017.
31. "Nos hommes dans l’Ouest : un film sur la réalité de nombreux Acadiens". Télé Inter-Rives, November 22, 2017.
32. "'Soggy Flakes' Makes World Premiere at Montreal Stop Motion Festival". Animation World Network , September 6, 2017.
33. Norman Wilner, "Sundowners serves up low-key pleasures". Now , August 24, 2017.
34. "«Un honneur et un privilège»". Journal de Quebec . Retrieved November 19, 2024.
35. Mullen, Patrick. "Review: 'The Tesla World Light' – Point of View Magazine". Point of View . Retrieved 2017-05-25.
36. "Trailer for Alan Zweig's TIFF-bound 'There is a House Here'". POV, August 15, 2017.
37. Marc-André Lussier, "Ça sent la Coupe: l'amour aveugle". La Presse , February 24, 2017.
38. Ainslie MacLellan, "Montreal filmmaker Xiaodan He brings rare perspective to the big screen". CBC News Montreal, August 26, 2018.
39. Wheeler, Brad (5 October 2017). "Review: Unarmed Verses is a subtle film about race, art and the means of expression". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
40. Bird, Cullen (September 8, 2017). "Local filmmaker releasing Hindi-language feature film". Fort McMurray Today . Archived from the original on September 9, 2017.
41. "Review: Venus is an insightful drama with a big heart". The Globe and Mail , May 17, 2018.
42. "Nous sommes les autres – Film de Jean-François Asselin". Films du Québec, November 5, 2017.
43. "Chandler Levack on Her New TIFF Short & the Importance of Telling Trans Stories" Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine . Flare , September 13, 2017.
44. Josée Lapointe, "Claire l'hiver: pas facile d'avoir 20 ans". La Presse , March 30, 2018.
45. Lapointe, Josée (29 August 2016). "Un tournage intime pour Et au pire, on se mariera". La Presse . Retrieved 6 February 2017.

External links

• Feature Films Released In 2017 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb