List of Canadian films of 2017
This is a list of Canadian films slated for release in 2017:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
| Abu | Arshad Khan | Documentary | |||
| Adam's Testament | Jason Barbeck, Rafael Kalamat | Luke Bilyk, Frank Chiesurin, Nick Mancuso | Thriller | ||
| Adventures in Public School | Kyle Rideout | Judy Greer | Comedy | Premiered as Public Schooled before being retitled | |
| Afterwards | 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 | |
| An American Dream | Ken Finkleman | Comedy | |||
| The Argument | Daniel Cockburn | Clare Coulter | Experimental | master's thesis | |
| Ava | Sadaf Foroughi | ||||
| Babe, I Hate to Go | Andrew Moir | Delroy Dunkley | Documentary | ||
| Badsville | April Mullen | Drama | |||
| Barefoot at Dawn | 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| The Carter Effect | Sean Menard | Documentary | |||
| 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 | Luc Picard | Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau, Anthony Bouchard, Henri Richer-Picard, Alexis Guay, Clare Coulter | Drama | ||
| The Crying Conch | Vincent Toi | ||||
| Darken | Audrey Cummings | Paul Amos, Ari Millen, Oluniké Adeliyi | Sci-fi, horror | ||
| The Devil's Share | Luc Bourdon | Documentary | |||
| Dolphin Man | 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 | 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 | Pascal Plante | Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault | Drama | ||
| Father and Guns 2 | Émile Gaudreault | Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Karine Vanasse | Comedy | ||
| Filth City | Andy King | Pat Thornton, Kenny Hotz | Comedy | ||
| 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 | Daniel Daigle | Guillaume Laurin, Ève Lemieux, Stéphane Messier, Antoine Pilon | Short drama | ||
| Ginger Nation | Mitch Fillion | Shawn Hitchins | Documentary, stand-up comedy | ||
| ' | Jay Baruchel | Seann William Scott, Liev Schrieber, Elisha Cuthbert | Comedy, sports | Sequel to 2011 film Goon | |
| Grandmother | Trevor Mack | ||||
| Great Great Great | Adam Garnet Jones | Sarah Kolasky, Dan Beirne | Drama | ||
| Gregoire | Cody Bown | Morgan Taylor Campbell, Jared Abrahamson, Ben Cotton | Drama | ||
| Heart of a Mountain | Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour | ||||
| The Heretics | Chad Archibald | Thriller | |||
| Hochelaga, Land of Souls | 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 | ||||
| ' | Sol Friedman | ||||
| Indian Horse | Stephen Campanelli | Forrest Goodluck, Michiel Huisman, Michael Murphy, Ajuawak Kapashesit | Drama | Adaptation of the novel by Richard Wagamese | |
| Infiltration | Robert Morin | Christian Bégin | Drama, thriller | ||
| Kevin Bacon-Hervieux | Documentary | ||||
| It's the Heart That Dies Last | Alexis Durand-Brault | Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault | Drama | ||
| Junior Majeur | Éric Tessier | Antoine Olivier Pilon, Rémi Goulet, Alice Morel-Michaud | Drama | ||
| Kayak to Klemtu | Zoe Leigh Hopkins | Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Evan Adams, Lorne Cardinal | Drama | ||
| Latched | Justin Harding and Rob Brunner | ||||
| The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches | Simon Lavoie | ||||
| Lira's Forest | Connor Jessup | ||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | François Jacob | Documentary | |||
| ' | Jayson Thiessen | Animated | |||
| My Mother's Letters | Serge Giguère | Documentary | |||
| Never Steady, Never Still | Kathleen Hepburn | Shirley Henderson, Nicholas Campbell, Théodore Pellerin | Drama | ||
| Nuuca | Michelle Latimer | ||||
| ' | 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 | ||
| The Other 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 | Robin Aubert | Horror drama | Best Canadian Film winner at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival | ||
| Rebels on Pointe | Bobbie Jo Hart | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo | Documentary | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | Denis Côté | ||||
| Sly Cooper | Kevin Munroe | Animated | |||
| Soggy Flakes | Heath Affolter, Jon Affolter, Nathan Affolter, Thomas Affolter | Peter New, Cole Howard | Animated | ||
| The Space Between | Amy Jo Johnson | Amy Jo Johnson, Jayne Eastwood, Michael Ironside | Drama | ||
| Stay, I Don't Want to Be Alone | Gabriel Savignac | Documentary | |||
| Suck It Up | Jordan Canning | Drama | - | ||
| 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 | |
| There Is a House Here | Alan Zweig | Lucie Idlout | Documentary | ||
| The Things You Think I'm Thinking | Sherren Lee | Prince Amponsah, Jesse LaVercombe | Short drama | - | |
| Threads | Torill Kove | Animated short | |||
| Threesome | 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 | ||
| Union Leader | Sanjay Patel | Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome | Drama | Canada-India coproduction | |
| Venus | Eisha Marjara | Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb, Gordon Warnecke | Comedy-drama | ||
| Voices of Kidnapping | Ryan McKenna | Documentary | |||
| We Are the Others | |||||
| 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 | |
| Worst Case, We Get Married | Léa Pool | Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean-Simon Leduc | Drama |