List of Canadian films of 2017 explained

This is a list of Canadian films released in 2017:

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Abu Documentary [1]
Adam's Testament Thriller [2]
Adventures in Public School Comedy Premiered as Public Schooled before being retitled [3]
Afterwards (Après coup) Drama
All You Can Eat Buddha David La Haye, Richard Jutras, Ludovic Berthillot, Sylvio Arreola, Yaité Ruiz, Alexander Guerrero
Allure Thriller Premiered as A Worthy Companion before being retitled [4]
The Argument (with annotations) Experimental master's thesis
Ava [5]
Babe, I Hate to Go Delroy Dunkley Documentary [6]
Badsville Drama
Baggage (Bagages) Documentary [7]
Barefoot at Dawn (Pieds nus dans l'aube)
Beatriz at Dinner Comedy
Before Anything You Say 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
Bird
Birth of a Family Journalist Betty Ann Adam and her three siblings Documentary [9]
Black Cop Crime drama
Black Kite
Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 Comedy, crime Sequel to 2006 film Bon Cop, Bad Cop [10]
Bonfires Documentary
Boost Drama
The Breadwinner Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Kawa Ada, Noorin Gulamgaus, Kane MahonAnimated
Broken Documentary
Broken Mile Thriller
Brown Girl Begins Science fiction
Ça sent la coupe Comedy-drama [11]
Canada in a Day Documentary
Cardinals Thriller [12]
The Carter Effect Documentary
The Catch Charli Birdgenaw Short drama [13]
Certains de mes amis Documentary
Charles
Charming Animated
Cielo Documentary
Creatura Dada
Crème de menthe
The Crescent Danika Vandersteen, Woodrow Graves, Terrance Murray, Andrew Gillis, Britt Loder, Andrea Kenyon Horror
Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols) Drama
The Crying Conch Short drama
The Curse of Buckout Road Horror [14]
Darken Audrey Cummings Sci-fi, horror
The Devil's Share (La Part du diable) Documentary
Dolls Don't Cry (Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas) Animated short [15]
Dolphin Man (L'homme dauphin) Documentary
Don't Talk to Irene Comedy
The Drawer Boy Drama
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas Documentary
The Drop In Short drama
Edging Comedy
Eye on Juliet
Fail to Appear Drama
Fake Tattoos (Les Faux tatouages) Drama
Father and Guns 2 (De père en flic 2) Comedy
Filth City Andy King Comedy [16]
Flood Animated short [17]
For Nonna Anna Maya Henry, Jacqueline Tarne Short drama
Galaxy of Horrors Various Various Science fiction horror anthology film International productions
Garage at Night (Garage de soir) Guillaume Laurin, Ève Lemieux, Stéphane Messier, Antoine Pilon Short drama
Ginger Nation Documentary, stand-up comedy
Seann William Scott, Liev Schrieber, Elisha CuthbertComedy, sports Sequel to 2011 film Goon
Grandmother
Great Great Great Drama
The Green Fog Experimental
Gregoire Drama Winner Best Canadian Narrative Feature - CIFF
Heart of a Mountain
The Heretics Thriller
The Hidden River (La rivière cachée) Documentary [18]
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga terre des âmes) Raoul Max Trujillo, Tanaya Beatty, David La HayeHistorical drama
Hollow in the Land Thriller
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In the Waves Documentary
Indian Horse Forrest Goodluck, Michiel Huisman, Michael Murphy, Ajuawak Kapashesit Drama
Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration) Drama, thriller
(Innu Nikamu: Chanter la résistance) Documentary [19]
It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) Drama
Junior Majeur Drama [20]
Kayak to Klemtu Drama [21]
Kiss and Cry Drama [22]
Latched
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)
Lira's Forest
A Little Wisdom Documentary [23]
Living Proof
Long Time Running Documentary
Lost Solace Science fiction
Luk'Luk'I
Maison du Bonheur Juliane Sellam Documentary
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Manic Documentary
Marguerite Short drama
Mary Goes Round Drama
Mass for Shut-Ins Charles William McKenzie, Joey Lee Maclean, Stephen Melanson Drama [24]
Meditation Park Drama
Midnight Confession
Milk
Miyubi Virtual reality comedy-drama
Möbius
Modern Classic Comedy
A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) Documentary
My Little Pony: The Movie Animated
My Mother's Letters (Les lettres de ma mère) Documentary [25]
Never Steady, Never Still Drama
Nuuca
Brandon Gross, Skyler Gross Ruth Blank, Roman Blank Documentary
Ordinary Days Drama
Origami Science fiction thriller [26]
Oscillations (Oscillations) Drama [27]
The Other Rio (L'autre Rio) Documentary
Our People Will Be Healed Documentary
Palmerston Blvd.
Porcupine Lake
Pre-Drink
Prototype
Pyewacket
Ravenous (Les Affamés) Horror drama
Rebels on Pointe Documentary [28]
The Road Forward Musical documentary [29]
Room for Rent
Documentary
Rupture
Sashinka Drama
Scaffold
Sebastian Drama
Shadow Nettes
Silas
A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse)
Sly Cooper Animated
Soggy Flakes Animated [30]
Stay, I Don't Want to Be Alone Documentary
Suck It Up Drama
Sundowners Comedy-drama [31]
Sweet Virginia Thriller US-Canada coproduction
A Swingers Weekend
Tadoussac Drama
Take a Walk on the Wildside Documentary Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Short Documentary in 2018
The Tesla World Light Short film [32]
There Is a House Here Documentary [33]
The Things You Think I'm Thinking Short drama
Threads Animated short
Threesome (Le Trip à trois) Sex comedy
Touched Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery Psychological thriller
Transformer Documentary
Trench 11 Rossif Sutherland, Robert StadloberHorror/War
Unarmed Verses Documentary [34]
Union Leader Drama Canada-India coproduction [35]
Venus Comedy-drama [36]
Voices of Kidnapping (Voces del secuestro) Documentary
Wall Animated documentary
We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) [37]
We Forgot to Break Up Drama [38]
Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver) Sophie Bédard Marcotte Comedy [39]
Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera) Drama [40]

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Notes and 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. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/07/06/toronto-filmmakers-hire-ryerson-students-to-job-shadow-the-crew-on-adams-testament-film-shoot.html "Toronto filmmakers hire Ryerson students to job shadow the crew on Adam’s Testament film shoot"
  3. News: Vlessing. Etan. Toronto: Netflix's 'Alias Grace,' Judy Greer's 'Public Schooled' Added to Lineup. August 9, 2017. The Hollywood Reporter. August 17, 2017.
  4. Web site: Toronto Film Review: 'A Worthy Companion' . . September 13, 2017 . Gleiberman . Owen . November 6, 2017.
  5. Web site: Sadaf Foroughi's 'Ava' wins best first feature film from Canadian Screen Awards . . . 31 January 2018 . 14 June 2018 . The Canadian Press . The Canadian Press .
  6. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-filmmaker-documents-the-life-and-death-of-a-migrant-worker-in-southwestern-ontario-1.4212409 "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario"
  7. Lisa-Marie Gervais, "«Bagages» — Lever le rideau sur des parcours migratoires". Le Devoir, December 9, 2017.
  8. News: Scheck. Frank. 'A Better Man': Film Review | Hot Docs 2017. 23 May 2017. The Hollywood Reporter. 8 May 2017. en.
  9. News: Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard's personal connection to the Sixties Scoop. 23 April 2017. Unreserved. CBC Radio. en. Deerchild. Rosanna. 19 May 2017.
  10. http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/11/08/bon-cop-bad-cop-2-une-affiche-pour-rassurer-lamerique "«Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2»: une affiche pour rassurer l’Amérique"
  11. Marc-André Lussier, "Ça sent la Coupe: l'amour aveugle". La Presse, February 24, 2017.
  12. Chris Knight, "Everyone did it in Cardinals, a dark, Canadian crime drama". National Post, August 29, 2018.
  13. Alice Chantal Tchandem Kamgang, "The Catch : le court métrage québécois s’imposera-t-il à Berlin ?". Radio Canada International, February 10, 2017.
  14. Web site: Miska. Brad. Exclusive ‘The Curse of Buckout Road’ Clip Ends with a Vicious Stabbing [Video]]. 1 October 2019. Bloody Disgusting. 13 December 2020.
  15. Jason Sondhi, "Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas (Dolls Don't Cry)". Short of the Week, June 12, 2019.
  16. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2017/03/17/canadian-film-fest-opens-for-patriotic-moviegoers-projections.html "Canadian Film Fest opens for patriotic moviegoers: Projections"
  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. , "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. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/movies/rebels-on-pointe-review.html "Review: 'Rebels on Pointe,' and in Tutus"
  29. News: The Road Forward: an innovative documentary explores Indigenous activism through songs. 2017-04-26. CBC Radio. 2017-04-28. en.
  30. https://www.awn.com/news/soggy-flakes-makes-world-premiere-montreal-stop-motion-festival "‘Soggy Flakes’ Makes World Premiere at Montreal Stop Motion Festival"
  31. Norman Wilner, "Sundowners serves up low-key pleasures". Now, August 24, 2017.
  32. Web site: Review: ‘The Tesla World Light’ – Point of View Magazine. Mullen. Patrick. Point of View. en. 2017-05-25.
  33. http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/trailer-for-alan-zweigs-tiff-bound-there-is-a-house-here "Trailer for Alan Zweig’s TIFF-bound ‘There is a House Here’"
  34. News: Wheeler. Brad. Review: Unarmed Verses is a subtle film about race, art and the means of expression. 7 October 2017. The Globe and Mail. 5 October 2017.
  35. News: Bird . Cullen . Local filmmaker releasing Hindi-language feature film . . September 8, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170909021230/http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2017/09/08/local-filmmaker-releasing-hindi-language-feature-film . September 9, 2017. dead.
  36. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-review-venus-is-an-insightful-drama-with-a-big-heart/ "Review: Venus is an insightful drama with a big heart"
  37. http://www.filmsquebec.com/films/nous-sommes-les-autres-jean-francois-asselin/ "Nous sommes les autres – Film de Jean-François Asselin"
  38. http://www.flare.com/film-2/director-chandler-levack/ "Chandler Levack on Her New TIFF Short & the Importance of Telling Trans Stories"
  39. Josée Lapointe, "Claire l'hiver: pas facile d'avoir 20 ans". La Presse, March 30, 2018.
  40. News: Un tournage intime pour Et au pire, on se mariera. Josée. Lapointe. 29 August 2016. La Presse. 6 February 2017.