List of Canadian films of 2016
This is a list of Canadian films released in 2016:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
| The 3 L'il Pigs 2 | Jean-François Pouliot | Paul Doucet, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Patrice Robitaille | Dramedy | Golden Screen Award winner as top-grossing Canadian film of 2016 | |
| 9, le film | Claude Brie, Erik Canuel, Jean-Philippe Duval, Marc Labrèche, Micheline Lanctôt, Luc Picard, Stéphane E. Roy, Éric Tessier, Ricardo Trogi | Stéphane E. Roy, Marc Labrèche, François Papineau, Anne-Marie Cadieux | Drama | An adaptation of Stéphane E. Roy's play 9 Variations on the Void | |
| The Adventure Club | Geoff Anderson | Sam Ashe Arnold, Jakob Davies, Dalila Bela, Billy Zane | Children's fantasy | ||
| ' | Fred Peabody | Featuring I.F. Stone, Carl Bernstein, Noam Chomsky among others | Documentary | ||
| Anatomy of Violence | Deepa Mehta | Vansh Bhardwaj, Suman jha, Tia Bhatia, Janki Bisht, Seema Biswas | Drama | ||
| Antibirth | Danny Perez | Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Meg Tilly | Horror, thriller | - | |
| Angry Inuk | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Aaju Peter | Documentary | ||
| ARQ | Tony Elliott | Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Shaun Benson | Science fiction | Made with U.S. financing | |
| Bad Seeds | Louis Bélanger | Alexis Martin, Gilles Renaud, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez | Drama | ||
| Before the Streets | Chloé Leriche | Rykko Bellemare, Kwena Bellemare-Boivin, Jacques Newashish | Drama | ||
| Below Her Mouth | April Mullen | Natalie Krill, Erika Linder | Drama | ||
| Black Code | Nicholas de Pencier | Featuring Felipe Altenfeldor, Ronald Deibert, Wjd Dhnie | Documentary | Examines the global impact that the Internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy and activism. | |
| Blind Vaysha | Theodore Ushev | Based on a story by Georgi Gospodinov | National Film Board of Canada animated short | nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film; Canadian Screen Award winner for Animated Short | |
| Boris Without Béatrice | Denis Côté | James Hyndman, Simone-Élise Girard, Denis Lavant | Drama | ||
| Boundaries | Chloé Robichaud | Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Serge Houde, Rémy Girard | Drama | ||
| Coffee at Laundromat | Maahi Kaur | Ali Kazmi | Dramedy short | ||
| Colonization Road | Michelle St. John | Ryan McMahon | Documentary | ||
| The Cyclotron | Olivier Asselin | Lucille Fluet, Paul Ahmarani, Mark Antony Krupa | Drama | ||
| A Date with Miss Fortune | John L'Ecuyer | Jeannette Sousa, Ryan Scott, Joaquim de Almeida | Romantic comedy | - | |
| Dead Leaves | Thierry Bouffard, Carnior, Edouard Tremblay | Roy Dupuis, Noémie O'Farrell, Audrey Rancourt-Lessard | Futuristic western | Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival | |
| Desert City | Charles-André Coderre, Yann-Manuel Hernandez | Hubert Proulx, Victoria Diamond, Elisabeth Locasi | Drama | ||
| Faceless | Ali Akbar Kamal | Humayoon Shams Khan, Rahmatullah Khostai, Farahnaz Nawabi | Action | ||
| Faggot | Olivier Perrier | Robin L'Houmeau, Eliot Nault | Short drama | ||
| Fluffy | Lee Filipovski | Short drama | |||
| Frame 394 | Rich Williamson | Daniel Voshart | Documentary | ||
| Giants of Africa | Hubert Davis | Masai Ujiri | Documentary | ||
| The Grasslands Project | Scott Parker | National Film Board of Canada short documentary films | |||
| Gulîstan, Land of Roses | Zaynê Akyol | Documentary | National Film Board of Canada-Germany co-production | ||
| Gun Runners | Anjali Nayar | Julius Arile, Robert Matanda | National Film Board of Canada documentary | ||
| Maxime Desruisseaux | Nick Theodorakis, Denis Marchand, Michel-Vital Blanchard | Crime drama | |||
| Her Friend Adam | Ben Petrie | Ben Petrie, Grace Glowicki, Andrew Chown | Short drama | ||
| Hello Destroyer | Kevan Funk | Jared Abrahamson, Kurt Max Runte | Drama | ||
| Hunting Pignut | Martine Blue | Taylor Hickson, Joel Thomas Hynes | Drama | ||
| I Am Here | Eoin Duffy | National Film Board of Canada animated short | |||
| I Like Girls | Diane Obomsawin | National Film Board of Canada animated short | |||
| Ink and Blood | Francis Fortin, Alexis Fortier Gauthier, Maxim Rheault | Jocelyn Blanchard, Véronique Chaumont, Nathalie Coupal | Drama | ||
| Iqaluit | Benoît Pilon | Marie-Josée Croze, Natar Ungalaaq | Drama | ||
| It's Only the End of the World | Xavier Dolan | Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard | Drama | Cannes Grand Prix winner; Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Picture | |
| Jean of the Joneses | Stella Meghie | Taylour Paige, Sherri Shepherd | Comedy | Made with U.S. financing | |
| A Kid | Philippe Lioret | Pierre Deladonchamps, Gabriel Arcand, Catherine De Léan | Drama | French coproduction | |
| Kidnap Capital | Felipe Rodriguez | Paulino Nunes, Jonathan Souza, Michael Reventar, Michelle Arvizu, Pedro Miguel Arce | Crime drama | ||
| King Dave | Daniel Grou | Mylène St-Sauveur, Moe Jeudy-Lamour, Karelle Tremblay | Adapted from the play by Alexandre Goyette | Shot in one continuous take. | |
| Kiss Me Like a Lover | André Forcier | Émile Schneider, Juliette Gosselin, Céline Bonnier | Dramady | ||
| ' | Nettie Wild | Documentary | |||
| The Lockpicker | Randall Okita | Keigian Umi Tang | Crime drama | ||
| Lovesick | Tyson Caron | Jacob Tierney, Jessica Paré, Jay Baruchel | Romantic comedy | ||
| Maudie | Aisling Walsh | Ethan Hawke, Sally Hawkins, Kari Matchett | Drama | Canada-Ireland coproduction | - |
| Mean Dreams | Nathan Morlando | Sophie Nélisse, Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton, Colm Feore | Drama | ||
| Montreal, White City | Bachir Bensaddek | Karina Aktouf, Rabah Aït Ouyahia | Drama | ||
| Mostly Sunny | Dilip Mehta | Sunny Leone | Documentary | ||
| Mutants | Alexandre Dostie | Joseph DeLorey, Francis La Haye, Sandrine Bisson | Dramatic short | ||
| My Friend Dino | Jimmy Larouche | Michel Côté, Sasha Migliarese, Joëlle Morin, Dino Tavarone | Crime drama | ||
| Nelly | Anne Émond | Mylène Mackay | Drama | ||
| Never Eat Alone | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Deragh Campbell, Joan Benac | Drama | ||
| The New Life of Paul Sneijder | Thomas Vincent | Thierry Lhermitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Pierre Curzi | Drama | Canada-France coproduction | |
| Nitro Rush | Alain Desrochers | Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Raymond Bouchard, Antoine Desrochers | Crime/action drama | ||
| Northlander | Benjamin Ross Hayden | Corey Sevier, Roseanne Supernault, Michelle Thrush | Futuristic drama | ||
| Oh What a Wonderful Feeling | François Jaros | Ellen David, Louis Negin, Karelle Tremblay | Experimental drama | ||
| Old Stone | Johnny Ma | Chen Gang | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film winner; a Canada-China co-production | |
| On My Mother's Side | Dominic Goyer | Marc Paquet, Sylvie De Morais-Nogueira, Marc Béland | Drama | ||
| Operation Avalanche | Matt Johnson | Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles | Conspiracy thriller | Faux documentary | |
| The Other Half | Joey Klein | Tatiana Maslany, Tom Cullen, Henry Czerny | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | |
| Le Pacte des anges | Richard Angers | Lenni-Kim, Marc Messier, Émile Schneider | Crime drama | ||
| Plain and Simple | Raphaël Ouellet | Short drama | |||
| Prank | Vincent Biron | Étienne Galloy, Alexandre Lavigne, Constance Massicotte | Comedy | ||
| The Prison in Twelve Landscapes | Brett Story | Documentary | |||
| Pyotr495 | Blake Mawson | Alex Ozerov | Horror short | ||
| Queer Hutterite | Laura O'Grady | Kelly Hofer | Documentary short | ||
| Race | Stephen Hopkins | Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons | Drama | Canada-France-Germany co-production | |
| Red of the Yew Tree | Marie-Hélène Turcotte | Animated short | |||
| The River of My Dreams | Brigitte Berman | Documentary | |||
| Riverhead | Justin Oakey | Lawrence Barry, Evan Mercer | Drama | ||
| The Road to Webequie | Tess Girard, Ryan Noth | Documentary | |||
| Sadie's Last Days on Earth | Michael Seater | Morgan Taylor Campbell, Ricardo Hoyos, Paula Brancati, Hélène Joy, Peter Keleghan | Comedy | ||
| Searchers | Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq | Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu | Drama | ||
| Shambles | Karl Lemieux | Jean-Simon Leduc, Martin Dubreuil | Drama | ||
| The Skyjacker's Tale | Jamie Kastner | Ishmael Muslim Ali | Documentary | ||
| Sled Dogs | Fern Levitt | Documentary | |||
| Spark | Aaron Woodley | Voices include Jace Norman, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Susan Sarandon | Animated feature | Canada-South Korea co-production made with U.S. financing | |
| Special Correspondents | Ricky Gervais | Eric Bana, Ricky Gervais, Vera Farmiga | Comedy | Canada-U.K. co-production made with U.S. financing | |
| Spirit Unforgettable | Pete McCormack | Spirit of the West | Documentary | ||
| Split | Lawrence Côté-Collins | Marjolaine Beauchamp, Ronald Cyr, Whitney Lafleur | Faux documentary | ||
| The Squealing Game | Steve Kerr | Paul Doucet, Julianne Côté, Anne-Marie Cadieux | Drama | ||
| Stone Makers | Jean-Marc E. Roy | Documentary | |||
| Theater of Life | Peter Svatek | Documentary produced with the National Film Board of Canada | |||
| This River | Katherena Vermette, Erika MacPherson | Kyle Kematch | National Film Board of Canada documentary short | ||
| Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves | Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie | Charlotte Aubin, Laurent Bélanger, Gabrielle Tremblay, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film winner | |
| Two Lovers and a Bear | Kim Nguyen | Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany, Gordon Pinsent | Drama | ||
| Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things | Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa | Documentary | |||
| Tuktuq | Robin Aubert | Robin Aubert, Brigitte Poupart | Docufiction | ||
| Unless | Alan Gilsenan | Catherine Keener, Hannah Gross, Brendan Coyle, Matt Craven, Chloe Rose, Hanna Schygulla | Drama based on the novel of the same name by Carol Shields | Canada-Ireland co-production | |
| The Unseen | Geoff Redknap | Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton | Psychological horror | ||
| Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie | Ellen Wong, Aaron Poole, Evan Stern | Horror | Canada-U.K. co-production made with U.S. financing | ||
| Vortex | Jephté Bastien | Marie-Ange Barbancourt, Carmen Bastida, Alain Bastien | Occult drama | Canada-China-Hiati co-production | |
| Votez Bougon | Jean-François Pouliot | Rémy Girard, Louison Danis, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc | Comedy | ||
| Waseskun | Steve Patry | National Film Board of Canada documentary | |||
| We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice | Alanis Obomsawin | National Film Board of Canada documentary | Obomsawin's 49th film | ||
| We're Still Together | Jesse Klein | Joey Klein, Jesse Camacho | Drama | - | |
| Weirdos | Bruce McDonald | Dylan Authors, Julia Sarah Stone, Allan Hawco, Cathy Jones, Molly Parker | Drama | ||
| Werewolf | Ashley McKenzie | Andrew Gillis, Bhreagh MacNeil | Drama | ||
| Wexford Plaza | Joyce Wong | Reid Asselstine, Darrel Gamotin | Comedy-drama | - | |
| Jean-Philippe Duval | Caroline Dhavernas, Francis Ducharme. François Papineau, Vincent-Guillaume | Historical drama | |||
| Wild Skin | Ariane Louis-Seize | Marilyn Castonguay | Short drama | - | |
| Window Horses | Ann Marie Fleming | Voices include Sandra Oh, Nancy Kwan, Shohreh Aghdashloo | Animated feature produced with the National Film Board of Canada | ||
| X500 | Juan Andrés Arango | Jembie Almazan, Bernardo Garnica Cruz, Jonathan Diaz Angulo | Drama | Canada-Mexico-Columbia co-production |