List of Canadian films of 2015
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2015:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | Katharine Isabelle, Christopher Lloyd | Thriller | Straight to DVD | |
| 88:88 | Experimental docudrama | |||
| Across the Line | Director X | Stephan James, Sarah Jeffery, Shamier Anderson | Drama | |
| Adrien (Le Garagiste) | Renée Beaulieu | Normand D'Amour, Louise Portal | Drama | |
| After the Last River | Theresa Spence | Documentary | ||
| Al Purdy Was Here | Brian D. Johnson | Al Purdy | Documentary | |
| (Toujours encore) | , | Drama | ||
| 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 |
| Anna | Charles-Olivier Michaud | Anna Mouglalis, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Pascale Bussières | ||
| Rob Stefaniuk | Chad Connell, Natalie Lisinska, David Reale | Surreal dark comedy | Released by Vimeo on Demand | |
| April and the Extraordinary World | , | 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 | Kenneth Welsh | Animated short | Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Animated Short Film | |
| Balmoral Hotel | Wayne Wapeemukwa | Short drama | ||
| Beeba Boys | Deepa Mehta | Randeep Hooda, , Sarah Allen | Crime drama | Canadian Screen Award for Costumes |
| Bite | Chad Archibald | , , , Jordan Grey | Horror | |
| Blue Thunder (Bleu tonnerre) | Philippe-David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy | Dany Placard, Isabelle Blais, Sandrine Bisson, | Short musical comedy-drama | |
| 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. |
| Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Short documentary | ||
| 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 |
| Experimental feature | A Canada-France co-production about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter. | |||
| Marquise Lepage | , | Romantic comedy | ||
| [1][2] | Iwan Rheon, | 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 | Benjamin Duffield | Nick Krause, Molly Parker | Sci-fi drama | |
| Death Dive (Le Scaphandrier) | Alain Vézina | Éric Gagné, Édith Côté-Demers, Alexandre Landry, Raymond Bouchard, Béatrice Picard | Horror | |
| The Demons (Les démons) | Philippe Lesage | , Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
| Le Dep | Sonia Boileau | , , Yan England | Drama, thriller | |
| The Devout | Connor Gaston | , Ali Liebert, , Gabrielle Rose, David Nykl, | supernatural drama | VIFF - B.C. Emerging Filmmaker award [1] |
| Diamond Tongues | & 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, | 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 | Documentary | |||
| Eadweard | Kyle Rideout | Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Torrance Coombs, Jodi Balfour | Biopic of pioneering American photographer Eadweard Muybridge | [3] |
| Ego Trip | 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 |
| Family Demolition (La démolition familiale) | Patrick Damien-Roy | Documentary | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Fractured Land | Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis |
Caleb Behn | Documentary films | [4] |
| The Girl King | Mika Kaurismäki | Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist | Historical drama | Canada-Finland-Germany-Sweden-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 |
| Gurov and Anna (Gurov et Anna) | Rafaël Ouellet | Drama | ||
| Hadwin's Judgement | Documentary | |||
| Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World | Charles Wilkinson | Severn Cullis-Suzuki, , Guujaaw | Documentary | Winner Best Canadian Documentary Hot Docs, Most Popular Canadian Documentary VIFF |
| He Hated Pigeons | Ingrid Veninger | Pedro Fontaine, Cristobal Tapia Montt | Drama | |
| The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le cœur de Madame Sabali)[5][6] | Ryan McKenna | Marie Brassard, , , Amadou & Mariam | comedy-drama | Best Feature Film (Focus Section) at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema |
| Hellions | Bruce McDonald | Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland | Horror | |
| Hevn (Revenge) | Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Trond Espen Seim, | Drama | Canada-Norway co-production | |
| Highway of Tears | Nathan Fillion | Documentary | Best Documentary award at the Malibu Film Festival[7] | |
| How Heavy This Hammer | Kazik Radwanski | , , | 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 |
| I Am the Blues | Daniel Cross | Featuring Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray and others | Documentary | Canadian Screen Awards for Best Feature-Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Feature-Length Documentary |
| Inner Jellyfishes (Les Méduses) | Marc-Antoine Lemire | , , Jade Hassouné | Short drama | |
| Interview with a Free Man (Entrevue avec un homme libre) | Short documentary | |||
| 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 Paulo, and Paris’ Musée du Louvre | |
| Khoya | Sami Khan | Drama | ||
| The Kind Words | Shemi Zarhin | Drama | Canada-Israel co-production | |
| Last of the Elephant Men | , Daniel Ferguson | Documentary | ||
| Legend of the Lich Lord | , | 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. |
| The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson | Trevor Anderson | Short documentary | |
| Sophie Deraspe | Evelyne Brochu, Louise Portal, Gilbert Sicotte | Drama | ||
| The Man in the Shadows | Sarah Jurgens, Alison Louder | Drama | ||
| Barry Avrich | Documentary | |||
| The Masked Saint | Warren P. Sonoda | Brett Granstaff, Lara Jean Chorostecki, T.J. McGibbon, Diahann Carroll | Drama | |
| The Messenger | Documentary | |||
| Mina Walking | Yosef Baraki | , , | National Film Board drama | Canada-Afghanistan co-production |
| The Mirage (Le Mirage) | Ricardo Trogi | Louis Morissette, | Comedy-drama | |
| Mobilize | National Film Board documentary | Musical score by Tanya Tagaq | ||
| (Mes ennemis) | Louise Marleau, , | Drama | ||
| 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, Sasha K. Gordon, , | Drama | |
| Ninth Floor | Mina Shum | National Film Board documentary | ||
| No Men Beyond This Point | Mark Sawers | Patrick Gilmore, , Rekha Sharma | Comedy | |
| Noir | Yves-Christian Fournier | Salim Kechiouche, Benz Antoine, | Drama | |
| North Mountain | Bretten Hannam | Justin Rain, Glen Gould | Action/thriller | |
| Numb | Jamie Bamber, Marie Avgeropoulos, Aleks Paunovic | Drama | ||
| O Negative | , | Horror short | ||
| Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) | Anne Émond | Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
| Overpass (Viaduc) | Patrice Laliberté | Short drama | ||
| The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d’Augustine) | Léa Pool | Céline Bonnier, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Gilbert Sicotte, Marie Tifo, Andrée Lachapelle | Drama | |
| the pass system | Alex Williams | Tantoo Cardinal | Documentary | Historical investigation into the segregationist system of the same name. |
| Paul à Québec | François Bouvier | François Létourneau, Julie Le Breton, Gilbert Sicotte | Drama | |
| People Hold On | Michael Seater | Noah Reid, Chloe Rose, Ashley Leggat, Katie Boland | ||
| James Motluk | Documentary | Gold Remi WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival | ||
| Portrait of a Serial Monogamist | John Mitchell & Christina Zeidler |
Diane Flacks, Carolyn Taylor | Romantic comedy | |
| Prisoner X | 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 |
| Roboshark | Jeffery Lando | Alexis Peterman Matt Rippy | Satirical sci-fi thriller | Bulgara-Canada 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-UK-USA co-production. |
| The Saver | Wiebke von Carolsfeld | , Pascale Bussières, Brandon Oakes | Drama | |
| Scratch | Sébastien Godron | Raphaël Joseph Lafond, Fayolle Jean, Jr., Schelby Jean-Baptiste | Musical drama | |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Kayla Lorette, Julian Richings | Short drama | ||
| Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino | , Nick Serino | Drama | TIFF - Best First Feature; Canadian Screen Award Best Supporting Actor Nick Serino |
| The Sleepwalker (Sonámbulo) | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | ||
| Snowtime! (La Guerre des tuques 3D) | Jean-François Pouliot | Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis, Sophie Cadieux, Gildor Roy | Animated | Remake of 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques) |
| Some Kind of Love | Thomas Burstyn | Yolanda Sonnabend, Joseph Sonnabend | Documentary | |
| The Sound of Trees (Le bruit des arbres) | Antoine L'Écuyer, Roy Dupuis | Drama | ||
| Star | Short drama | |||
| The Steps | Andrew Currie | James Brolin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lahti, Jason Ritter | Comedy, drama | |
| Sugar Coated | Documentary | |||
| Survivors Rowe | Daniel Roher | Documentary | ||
| 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 | ||
| Where Atilla Passes (Là où Atilla passe…) | Émile Schneider, , , Roy Dupuis | Drama | ||
| The Witch | Robert Eggers | Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie | Horror | Sundance Film Festival - Best Director; Made with U.S. financing |
| World Famous Gopher Hole Museum | Chelsea McMullan, | Short documentary | ||
| Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead | & | , , Dan van Husen | Horror | Canada-Italy co-production |
| Zoom | Gael García Bernal, Mariana Ximenes, Alison Pill, Don McKellar | Animated, live-action | Canada-Brazil co-production |
See also[]
- 2015 in Canada
- 2015 in Canadian television
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.
- ^ "Fractured Land selected as Best B.C. Film at VIFF". The Vancouver Sun. 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ "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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