# List of Canadian films of 2017

This is a list of Canadian films released in 2017:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 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 (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 | |
| Badsville | April Mullen | | Drama | |
| Baggage (Bagages) | Paul Tom | | Documentary | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| The Catch | Holly Brace-Lavoie | Charli Birdgenaw | Short drama | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Filth City | Andy King | Pat Thornton, Kenny Hotz | Comedy | |
| Flood | Amanda Strong | | Animated short | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Kayak to Klemtu | Zoe Leigh Hopkins | Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Evan Adams, Lorne Cardinal | Drama | |
| Kiss and Cry | Sean Cisterna | Sarah Fisher, Luke Bilyk | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Oscillations (Oscillations) | Ky Nam Le Duc | | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Squat (Ailleurs) | Samuel Matteau | Noah Parker, Théodore Pellerin | 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 | |
| This Is Our Cup (Ça sent la coupe) | Patrice Sauvé | Louis-José Houde, Émilie Bibeau, Julianne Côté | Comedy-drama | |
| 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 |
| 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 (Voces del secuestro) | Ryan McKenna | | Documentary | |
| Wall | Cam Christiansen | | Animated documentary | |
| We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres) | | | | |
| 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 |
| Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver) | Sophie Bédard Marcotte | Sophie Bédard Marcotte, Samuel Brassard, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé, Micheline Lanctôt | Comedy | |
| Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera) | Léa Pool | Sophie Nélisse, Karine Vanasse, Jean-Simon Leduc | Drama | |