This is a list of Canadian films released in 2017:
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Ref Abu Arshad Khan Documentary Aparita Bhandari, "In his feature debut, documentary filmmaker Arshad Khan opens his living room to the world". The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2018. Adam's Testament Jason Barbeck, Rafael Kalamat Luke Bilyk, Frank Chiesurin, Nick Mancuso Thriller "Toronto filmmakers hire Ryerson students to job shadow the crew on Adam's Testament film shoot". Toronto Star, July 6, 2015. Adventures in Public School Kyle Rideout Judy Greer Comedy Premiered as Public Schooled before being retitled 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 The Argument (with annotations) Daniel Cockburn Clare Coulter Experimental master's thesis Ava Sadaf Foroughi Babe, I Hate to Go Andrew Moir Delroy Dunkley Documentary "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario". CBC News London, July 19, 2017. Badsville April Mullen Drama Baggage (Bagages) Paul Tom Documentary Lisa-Marie Gervais, "«Bagages» — Lever le rideau sur des parcours migratoires". Le Devoir, December 9, 2017. 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 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 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 "«Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2»: une affiche pour rassurer l'Amérique". Le Journal de Montréal, November 8, 2016. 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 Chris Knight, "Everyone did it in Cardinals, a dark, Canadian crime drama". National Post, August 29, 2018. The Carter Effect Sean Menard Documentary The Catch Holly Brace-Lavoie Charli Birdgenaw Short drama Alice Chantal Tchandem Kamgang, "The Catch : le court métrage québécois s'imposera-t-il à Berlin ?". Radio Canada International, February 10, 2017. Charles Dominic Étienne Simard Charming Ross Venokur Animated Cielo Alison McAlpine Documentary Creatura Dada Caroline Monnet Crème de menthe Philippe David Gagné, 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 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 Jason Sondhi, "Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas (Dolls Don't Cry)". Short of the Week, June 12, 2019. 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 Marie-Hélène Mello, "Huis clos dans le vaste: Les Terres lointaines de Félix Lamarche". Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring 2017), p. 51. Filth City Andy King Pat Thornton, Kenny Hotz Comedy "Canadian Film Fest opens for patriotic moviegoers: Projections". Toronto Star, March 17, 2017. Flood Amanda Strong Animated short Anna Dimoff, "Animated short film tells story of Indigenous youth combating colonial influence". CBC News British Columbia, December 10, 2017. 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 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 The Hidden River (La rivière cachée) Jean-François Lesage Documentary François Lévesque, "«La rivière cachée»: des vies comme une rivière". Le Devoir, May 25, 2018. 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 Caroline Montpetit, "Innu Nikamu: chanter la résistance". Le Devoir, May 4, 2018. It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) Alexis Durand-Brault Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault Drama Kayak to Klemtu Zoe Leigh Hopkins Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Evan Adams, Lorne Cardinal Drama Alison Gillmor, "Movie pushes environmental message: Kayak to Klemtu a protest against supertankers, pipelines in First Nations territories". Winnipeg Free Press, August 11, 2018. Kiss and Cry Sean Cisterna Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk Drama Norman Wilner, "Kiss And Cry packs an emotional wallop". Now, February 8, 2017. 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 Marc Glassman, "More than a Little Wisdom". Point of View, April 26, 2018. Living Proof Matt Embry Long Time Running Jennifer BaichwalNicholas 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 Major Junior (Junior Majeur) Éric Tessier Antoine Olivier Pilon, Rémi Goulet, Alice Morel-Michaud Drama , "Junior majeur: tu n'es plus un pee-wee, mon fils". La Presse, November 20, 2017. 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 Adrian Mack, "VIFF 2017: Nova Scotia's Mass For Shut-Ins follows 20-something in impoverished New Waterford". The Georgia Straight, September 29, 2017. 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 André Lavoie, "«Les lettres de ma mère»: la batailleuse". Le Devoir, March 17, 2018. 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 Charles-Henri Ramond, "Origami – Film de Patrick Demers". Films du Québec, April 17, 2018. Oscillations Ky Nam Le Duc Drama Charles-Henri Ramond, "Oscillations – Film de Ky Nam Le Duc". Films du Québec, October 21, 2018. The Other Rio (L'autre Rio) Émilie B. Guérette Documentary Our People Will Be Healed Alanis Obomsawin Documentary Palmerston Blvd. Dan Browne A Paradise Too Far (Y’est où le paradis?) Denis Langlois Maxime Dumontier, Marine Johnson Drama Éric Moreault, "Y'est où le paradis?: quête de sens". Le Soleil, November 16, 2017. 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 "Review: 'Rebels on Pointe,' and in Tutus". The New York Times, November 15, 2017. The Road Forward Marie Clements Michelle St. John, Cheri Maracle, Evan Adams Musical documentary 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 "Rupture: a Syrian cast of young first-time actors and war survivors". CBC News British Columbia, October 7, 2017. 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 "Nos hommes dans l’Ouest : un film sur la réalité de nombreux Acadiens". Télé I