List of Canadian films of 2015
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2015:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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88 | Tim Doiron | Katharine Isabelle, Christopher Lloyd | Thriller | Straight to DVD |
Adrien (Le Garagiste) | Renée Beaulieu | Normand D'Amour, Louise Portal | Drama | |
Al Purdy Was Here | Brian D. Johnson | Al Purdy | Documentary | |
The Amina Profile | Sophie Deraspe | Sandra Bagaria | Documentary co-produced with the National Film Board | U.S. title: A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile |
Antibirth | Danny Perez | Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Meg Tilly | Horror, thriller | |
Anxietyville | Rob Stefaniuk | Chad Connell, Natalie Lisinska, David Reale | Surreal dark comedy | Released by Vimeo on Demand |
April and the Extraordinary World | Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci | voices Marion Cotillard, Yolande Moreau. Jean Rochefort | Animated feature | Canada-France-Belgium co-production |
Bacon and God's Wrath | Sol Friedman | Razie Brownstone | Short documentary | Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Short Documentary Film |
The Ballad of Immortal Joe | Hector Herrera | Kenneth Welsh | Animated short | Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Animated Short Film |
Beeba Boys | Deepa Mehta | Randeep Hooda, Ali Momen, Sarah Allen | Crime drama | Canadian Screen Award for Costumes |
Borealis | Sean Garrity | Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire | Drama | |
Born to Be Blue | Robert Budreau | Ethan Hawke Carmen Ejogo | Biographical drama | About American jazz musician Chet Baker; Canada-U.K. co-production. |
Brooklyn | John Crowley | Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent | Historical romance based on Colm Tóibín's novel of the same name. | winner of numerous awards; Only the second Canadian film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars; Canada-U.K.-Ireland co-production |
Calamity qui? | Isabelle Prim | Experimental feature | A Canada-France co-production about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter. | |
Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire (English: What Did He Have to Say) | Marquise Lepage | Annick Fontaine, Christian Michaud | Romantic comedy | |
Charlotte's Song[1][2] | Nicholas Humphries | Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager | horror-musical-historical-drama | An homage to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. |
Chorus | François Delisle | Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Curzi | Drama | |
A Christmas Horror Story | Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban & Brett Sullivan | George Buza, William Shatner | Anthology film | |
Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | Connor Jessup, Isabella Rossellini, Joanne Kelly, Aaron Abrams | Drama | TIFF - Best Canadian Feature |
Corbo | Mathieu Denis | Anthony Therrien, Karelle Tremblay, Antoine L'Écuyer, Tony Nardi | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
Darwin | Alain Desrochers | Nick Krause, Molly Parker | Sci-fi drama | |
The Demons (Les démons) | Philippe Lesage | Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
The Devout | Connor Gaston | Charlie Carrick, Ali Liebert, Olivia Martin, Gabrielle Rose, David Nykl, Ryan McDonell | supernatural drama | VIFF - B.C. Emerging Filmmaker award |
Diamond Tongues | Pavan Moondi & Brian Robertson | Leah Goldstein | Comedy, drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
The Diary of an Old Man (Le Journal d’un vieil homme) | Bernard Émond | Paul Savoie, Marie Ève Pelletier | Drama | Based on Chekhov’s short story, "A Boring Story" |
Dead Rising: Watchtower | Zach Lipovsky | Jesse Metcalfe, Dennis Haysbert, Virginia Madsen | Zombie horror | Made with U.S. financing |
Driving with Selvi | Elisa Paloschi | Documentary | ||
Eadweard | Kyle Rideout | Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Torrance Coombs, Jodi Balfour | Biopic of pioneering American photographer Eadweard Muybridge | [3] |
Ego Trip | Benoît Pelletieri | Patrick Huard, Antoine Bertrand | Comedy | |
Endorphine | André Turpin | Sophie Nélisse, Monia Chokri, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Stéphane Crête | Drama | |
Every Thing Will Be Fine | Wim Wenders | James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Josée Croze, Robert Naylor, Rachel McAdams | Drama | Canada-German-France-Sweden-Norway co-production made with U.S. financing |
February | Oz Perkins | Kiernan Shipka, Emma Roberts, Lucy Boynton | Horror, thriller | Made with U.S. financing |
Fire Song | Adam Garnet Jones | Jennifer Podemski, Derek Miller | Drama | |
Fish Plane, Heart Clock | Avro Leo | Pudlo Pudlat | Documentary | |
The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson | Roy Dupuis, Louis Negin, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Mathieu Amalric | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
Forsaken | Jon Cassar | Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland | Western | The first screen pairing of Kiefer and Donald Sutherland; Canada-France co-production |
Guantanamo's Child | Patrick Reed & Michelle Shephard | Omar Khadr | Documentary | Based on Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen convicted on terrorism charges and subsequently incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay |
Hadwin's Judgement | Sasha Snow | Documentary | ||
Hellions | Bruce McDonald | Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland | Horror | |
Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World | Charles Wilkinson | Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Chief Allan Wilson, Guujaaw | Documentary | Winner Best Canadian Documentary Hot Docs, Most Popular Canadian Documentary VIFF |
The Heart of Madame Sabali (French title: Le coeur de Madame Sabali)[4][5] | Ryan McKenna | Marie Brassard, Francis La Haye, Hugo Giroux, Amadou & Mariam | comedy-drama | |
Highway of Tears | Matthew Smiley | Nathan Fillion | Documentary | Best Documentary award at the Malibu Film Festival[6] |
How Heavy This Hammer | Kazik Radwanski | Erwin Van Cotthem, Kate Ashley, Seth Kirsh | Drama | |
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town | Jeremy Lalonde | Lauren Holly, Jewel Staite, Katharine Isabelle | Comedy | |
Hurt | Alan Zweig | Steve Fonyo | Documentary | |
Hyena Road | Paul Gross | Paul Gross, Rossif Sutherland, Clark Johnson, Allan Hawco, Christine Horne, David Richmond-Peck | Afghan war drama | Canadian Screen Awards for Sound, Sound Editing and Visual Effects |
Into the Forest | Patricia Rozema | Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Eklund, Sandy Sidhu | Drama based on Into the Forest by Jean Hegland | made for DirecTV in U.S., later released theatrically in Canada |
Invention | Mark Lewis | National Film Board documentary | Cinematic tour of Toronto, São Paolo, and Paris’ Musée du Louvre | |
The Kind Words | Shemi Zarhin | Rotem Zissman-Cohen | Drama | Canada-Israel co-production |
Last of the Elephant Men | Arnaud Bouquet, Daniel Ferguson | Documentary | ||
Legend of the Lich Lord | Spencer Estabrooks | Mikaela Cochrane, Julie Orton | Faux documentary | |
Life | Anton Corbijn | Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley, Joel Edgerton | Biopic | About James Dean and photographer Dennis Stock; a Canada-German-Australia-U.K. co-production with U.S. financing. |
Les Loups | Sophie Deraspe | Evelyne Brochu, Louise Portal, Gilbert Sicotte | Drama | |
The Man Who Shot Hollywood | Barry Avrich | Jack Pashkovsky | Documentary | |
Mina Walking | Yosef Baraki | Farzana Nawabi, Hashmatullah Fanai, Qadir Aryaie | National Film Board drama | Canada-Afghanistan co-production |
Le Mirage | Ricardo Trogi | Louis Morissette, Julie Perreault | Comedy-drama | |
Mobilize | Caroline Monneti | National Film Board documentary | Musical score by Tanya Tagaq | |
My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) | Philippe Falardeau | Patrick Huard, Suzanne Clément, Irdens Exantus | Satire, comedy | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
Natasha | David Bezmozgis | Alex Ozerov, Deanna Dezmari, Genadijs Dolganovs | Drama | |
Ninth Floor | Mina Shum | National Film Board documentary | ||
No Men Beyond This Point | Mark Sawers | Patrick Gilmore, Kristine Cofsky, Rekha Sharma | Comedy | |
Noir | Yves-Christian Fournier | Salim Kechiouche, Benz Antoine, Julie Djiezion | Drama | |
North Mountain | Bretten Hannam | Justin Rain, Glen Gould | Action/thriller | |
Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) | Anne Émond | Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d’Augustine) | Léa Pool | Céline Bonnier, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Gilbert Sicotte, Marie Tifo, Andrée Lachapelle | Drama | |
Paul à Québec | François Bouvier | François Létourneau, Julie LeBreton, Gilbert Sicotte | Drama | |
People Hold On | Michael Seater | Noah Reid, Chloe Rose, Ashley Leggat, Katie Boland | ||
Portrait of a Serial Monogamist | John Mitchell & Christina Zeidler | Diane Flacks, Carolyn Taylor | Romantic comedy | |
Prisoner X | Gaurav Seth | Julian Richings, Michelle Nolden, Damon Runyan | Sci-fi thriller | |
The Rainbow Kid | Kire Paputts | Nicholas Campbell, Julian Richings | Drama | |
Remember | Atom Egoyan | Christopher Plummer, Dean Norris, Martin Landau, Bruno Ganz, Heinz Lieven, Jürgen, Prochnow, Henry Czerny | Drama | Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay; Canada-German co-production |
River | Jamie M. Dagg | Rossif Sutherland, Sara Botsford | Thriller | Canada-Laos co-production |
Room | Lenny Abrahamson | Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, William H. Macy | Drama based on a novel and screenplay by Emma Donoghue | winner of numerous awards; The third Canadian film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture; Canada-Ireland co-production. |
The Saver | Wiebke von Carolsfeld | Imajyn Cardinal, Pascale Bussières, Brandon Oakes | Drama | |
Scratch | Sébastien Godron | Raphaël Joseph Lafond, Fayolle Jean, Jr., Schelby Jean-Baptiste | Musical drama | |
Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino | Jackson Martin, Nick Serino | Drama | TIFF - Best First Feature; Canadian Screen Award Best Supporting Actor Nick Serino |
Snowtime! (La Guerre des tuques 3D) | Jean-François Pouliot | Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis, Sophie Cadieux, Gildor Roy | Animated | Remake of 1984 film La Guerre des tuques |
The Sleepwalker | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | ||
The Steps | Andrew Currie | James Brolin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lahti, Jason Ritter | Comedy, drama | |
This Changes Everything | Avi Lewis | Documentary | Made with U.S. financing | |
Turbo Kid | François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery, Michael Ironside | Horror, thriller | Canada-New Zealand co-production |
Ville-Marie | Guy Édoin | Monica Bellucci, Aliocha Schneider, Pascale Bussières | Drama | |
The Waiting Room | Igor Drljaca | Jasmin Geljo, Cintija Asperger, Ma-Anne Dionisio | Drama | Canada- Bosnia & Herzegovina-Croatia co-production |
Welcome to F.L. | Geneviève Dulude-De Celles | Documentary | ||
The Witch | Robert Eggers | Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie | Horror | Sundance Film Festival - Best Director; Made with U.S. financing |
Zoom | Pedro Morelli | Gael García Bernal, Mariana Ximenes, Alison Pill, Don McKellar | Animated, live-action | Canada-Brazil co-production |
Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead | Luca Boni & Marco Ristori | Lucy Drive, Ally McClelland, Dan van Husen | Horror | Canada-Italy co-production |
References
- ↑ Kamran Ahmed (27 October 2015). "VIFF: Charlotte's Song: 'So bad it's good'". Next Projection. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Ken Eisner (24 September 2015). "VIFF 2015: Charlotte's Song is all over the map". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ "Eadweard (programme note)". Vancouver International Film Festival. 2015. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ "Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Cinoche.
- ↑ "Sabali". Vancouver International Film Festival. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Alicia Bridges, "Highway of Tears documentary wins award," Smithers Interior News, 9 December 2014, URL accessed 3 July 2016.
External links
- Feature Films Released In 2015 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb
- 2016 Canadian Screen Awards (nominees)
- Canada's Top Ten for 2015 (lists of top ten features, shorts, and student shorts, selected in a process administered by TIFF)
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