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
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
Filth City Andy King Pat Thornton, Kenny Hotz Comedy [15]
Flood Amanda Strong Animated short [16]
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 [15]
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 [15]
The Hidden River (La rivière cachée) Jean-François Lesage Documentary [17]
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 [18]
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 [19]
Kayak to Klemtu Zoe Leigh Hopkins Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Evan Adams, Lorne Cardinal Drama [20]
Kiss and Cry Sean Cisterna Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk Drama [21]
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 [22]
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 [23]
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 [24]
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 [25]
Oscillations (Oscillations) Ky Nam Le Duc Drama [26]
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 [27]
The Road Forward Marie Clements Michelle St. John, Cheri Maracle, Evan Adams Musical documentary [28]
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 [29]
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 [30]
Squat (Ailleurs) Samuel Matteau Noah Parker, Théodore Pellerin 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
This Is Our Cup (Ça sent la coupe) Patrice Sauvé Louis-José Houde, Émilie Bibeau, Julianne Côté Comedy-drama [34]
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 [35]
Union Leader Sanjay Patel Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome Drama Canada-India coproduction [36]
Venus Eisha Marjara Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb, Gordon Warnecke Comedy-drama [37]
Voices of Kidnapping (Voces del secuestro) Ryan McKenna Documentary
Wall Cam Christiansen Animated documentary
We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) [38]
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 [39]
Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver) Sophie Bédard Marcotte Sophie Bédard Marcotte, Samuel Brassard, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé, Micheline Lanctôt Comedy [40]
Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera) Léa Pool Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean-Simon Leduc Drama [41]
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