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This is a list of Canadian films released in 2020:

Title Director Cast Notes Ref
4 North A Jordan Canning, Howie Shia [1]
9/11 Kids [2]
Akilla's Escape Charles Officer Saul Williams, Vic Mensa, Oluniké Adeliyi, Brandon Oakes [1]
All-In Madonna Arnold Lim Melanie Rose Wilson [3]
Aniksha Vincent Toi [1]
The Archivists Igor Drljaca Noah Reid, , Maxwell McCabe-Lokos [1]
As Spring Comes (Comme la neige au printemps) Marie-Ève Juste [1]
An Awkward Balance Ben Cotton, Christina Sicoli, Stephen Lobo, Sara Canning Premiered as Fucking Idiots before being retitled [4]
August 22, This Year Graham Foy [5]
Bad Omen Salar Pashtoonyar Fereshta Afshar, Faruq Afghan [6]
Beans Tracey Deer Kiawenti:io Tarbell, Paulina Jewel Alexis, Violah Beauvais [7]
Benjamin, Benny, Ben Paul Shkordoff , [1]
Between Waves Virginia Abramovich [3]
Black Bodies Kelly Fyffe-Marshall [1]
Bloodthirsty , Greg Bryk, [8]
Bone Cage Taylor Olson Taylor Olson, Amy Groening [9]
The Book of Distance Randall Okita [10]
Brother, I Cry Jessie Anthony [11]
Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain) Kim O'Bomsawin [12]
Cayenne Simon Gionet Marianne Fortier, [13]
Chained Titus Heckel [11]
Corona Mostafa Keshvari [14]
The Corruption of Divine Providence Jeremy Torrie , Elyse Levesque, David La Haye, Tantoo Cardinal [3]
Cup of Cheer Storm Steenson, Alexander Oliver [15]
The Curse of Willow Song Karen Lam [16]
Dave Not Coming Back Jonah Malak [17]
Death of a Ladies' Man Matt Bissonnette Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Paré [18]
The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin) Patrice Laliberté , Réal Bossé, Marc-André Grondin, Marilyn Castonguay Thriller; first film from Quebec ever produced and released as a Netflix original film [19]
The Decline Sean Patrick Shaul, Kayvon Saremi Documentary [3]
Dope Is Death Mia Donovan [20]
Eat Wheaties! Tony Hale, Elisha Cuthbert [18]
êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines Theola Ross [21]
Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game Andrew Phung [11]
Every Day's Like This [1]
Falling Viggo Mortensen Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney UK-US-Canadian coproduction [22]
Far from Bashar (Loin de Bachar) [23]
Fauna Nicolás Pereda Canada/Mexico coproduction [24]
Finding Sally Tamara Mariam Dawit [25]
First We Eat Suzanne Crocker [26]
Flashback Christopher MacBride Dylan O'Brien, Maika Monroe, Hannah Gross, Amanda Brugel
Flashwood Jean-Carl Boucher Pier-Luc Funk, , Karelle Tremblay [27]
Flowers of the Field Alex Crowther, Kristopher Turner, Jesse LaVercombe [11]
Foam (Écume) Omar Elhamy [28]
For the Sake of Vicious Gabriel Carrer, Reese Eveneshen [29]
Found Me David Findlay [1]
The Fourfold Alisi Telengut [30]
The Free Ones (Les Libres) [31]
French Exit Azazel Jacobs Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts Canada/UK coproduction; adaptation of the novel by Patrick deWitt [32]
Funny Boy Deepa Mehta Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram, Ali Kazmi, Agam Darshi, Seema Biswas Adaptation of the 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai [33]
Girl Chad Faust Bella Thorne, Mickey Rourke, Glen Gould
Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu) Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Kelly Dépeault, Caroline Néron, Normand D'Amour Adaptation of the novel by Geneviève Pettersen [34]
Greetings from Isolation Various directors Anthology of short films about the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada [35]
Happy Place Helen Shaver Clark Backo, Sheila McCarthy, Liisa Repo-Martell, Mary Walsh [29]
Hazy Little Thing Sam Coyle [29]
Hibiscus Season (La saison des hibiscus) Éléonore Goldberg [36]
How to Be At Home Andrea Dorfman Tanya Davis [28]
I, Barnabé (Moi, Barnabé) Jean-François Lévesque [37]
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow (Tant que j'ai du respir dans le corps) Steve Patry [38]
I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight Sean Garrity Hera Nalam, Kristian Jordan [39]
In Her City Carl Bessai [3]
In the Land of the Flabby Schnook (Au pays du cancre mou) [40]
Inconvenient Indian Michelle Latimer [7]
Indian Road Trip [3]
An Introvert's Guide to High School Sophie Harvey [3]
Jesse Jams Trevor Anderson Jesse Jams [41]
John Ware Reclaimed Cheryl Foggo [42]
Judy Versus Capitalism Mike Hoolboom Judy Rebick [43]
Jump, Darling , Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Linda Kash, Tynomi Banks [44]
The Kid Detective Evan Morgan Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse, Wendy Crewson [45]
Laughter (Le Rire) Martin Laroche Christine Beaulieu, Alexandre Landry, Micheline Lanctôt, Léane Labrèche-Dor [46]
Little Orphans Ruth Lawrence Emily Bridger, Rhiannon Morgan, Marthe Bernard [47]
The Magnitude of All Things Jennifer Abbott [11]
Marlene Kristin Booth, Greg Bryk, Julia Sarah Stone [18]
The Marina (La Marina) , Étienne Galloy Rémi Goulet, Rose-Marie Perreault, Amadou Madani Tall, Anthony Therrien [3]
Meat the Future Liz Marshall [48]
Mercy Sam Flamont [3]
Monkey Beach Loretta Todd Adam Beach, Nathaniel Arcand, Grace Dove, Glen Gould [11]
Moon (Lune) Joanie Martel [49]
The Mother Eagle (Le Sang du pélican) [50]
My Salinger Year Philippe Falardeau Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore [51]
My Very Own Circus (Mon cirque à moi) Patrick Huard, Robin Aubert, Sophie Lorain [52]
Nadia, Butterfly Pascal Plante Katerine Savard [53]
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott Sequel to the 2003 film The Corporation [7]
Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois) Philippe Lacôte Isaka Sawadogo, Steve Tientcheu, Rasmané Ouédraogo Canadian-French-Ivorian coproduction [7]
No Ordinary Man Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt Billy Tipton [7]
No Visible Trauma Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal [54]
Old Buddies (Les Vieux chums) Claude Gagnon , Paul Doucet [55]
Our Own (Les Nôtres) Jeanne Leblanc Émilie Bierre, Marianne Farley, , Paul Doucet [56]
The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier) Tanya Lapointe Claude Lafortune [3]
Benjamin Ross Hayden Greg Bryk, Tommie-Amber Pirie [57]
Percy Clark Johnson Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby [58]
The Petrichor Olga Korsak, Aleksei Serebryakov [59]
PG: Psycho Goreman Steven Kostanski [60]
Pieces of a Woman Kornél Mundruczó Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Jimmie Fails, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker [7]
Emily Gan, Daniel Schachter
Point and Line to Plane Sofia Bohdanowicz Deragh Campbell [1]
Possessor Brandon Cronenberg Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, Jennifer Jason Leigh [61]
Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue) [62]
Québexit Joshua Demers Gail Maurice, [29]
Queen of the Andes Bhreagh MacNeil, , , [63]
RKLSS [1]
Reservoir Kim St-Pierre [29]
The Rose Family (Les Rose) Félix Rose [64]
Rules for Werewolves Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux [1]
Saint-Narcisse Bruce LaBruce , , , [65]
Scars [1]
Shoot to Marry Steve Markle [66]
Shooting Star (Comme une comète) Ariane Louis-Seize Marguerite Bouchard, Whitney Lafleur, Patrick Hivon [1]
The Silencing Robin Pront Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Zahn McClarnon Canada/United States co-production [67]
Sing Me a Lullaby Tiffany Hsiung [1]
Sinking Ship [1]
Sisterhood (Ainsi soient-elles) Maxime Faure [29]
Slaxx Elza Kephart Romane Denis [68]
Andrew Thomas Hunt Julian Richings, Michelle Argyris, Emily Alatalo, Jason Rouse, Kiriana Stanton [69]
Stage Mother Thom Fitzgerald Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier [70]
Stateless Michèle Stephenson [62]
The Sticky Side of Baklava (La Face cachée du baklava) Maryanne Zéhil , Claudia Ferri, , Geneviève Brouillette, Manuel Tadros, France Castel, Marcel Sabourin [71]
Still Processing Sophy Romvari [1]
Still the Water Susan Rodgers Colin Price, Ryan Barrett [47]
Strong Son [1]
Stump the Guesser Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson [28]
Succor Hannah Cheesman Michaela Kurimsky, Deragh Campbell [1]
Sugar Daddy Wendy Morgan Kelly McCormack, Colm Feore [3]
Target Number One (a.k.a. Most Wanted) Daniel Roby Josh Hartnett, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Stephen McHattie [72]
There Are No False Undertakings (Il n’y a pas de faux métier) , Florence Blain Mbaye, , , Jean-Marc Dalpé, Fayolle Jean [43]
There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace [73]
Tin Can Seth A. Smith Anna Hopkins, , Michael Ironside [74]
Under the Weather William D. MacGillivray [47]
Underground (Souterrain) Sophie Dupuis Théodore Pellerin [75]
Underplayed Stacey Lee Rezz, Nervo, Tokimonsta, Alison Wonderland Documentary about women in electronic music [76]
Vacarme Neegan Trudel Rosalie Pépin, Sophie Desmarais [77]
The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland) Benoît Pilon Sébastien Ricard, Rémy Girard, François Papineau [78]
Violation Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Jesse LaVercombe [7]
Wander April Mullen Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham, Tommy Lee Jones [29]
The Walrus and the Whistleblower Phil Demers [79]
Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour) Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins [80]
The Winter Lake Phil Sheerin [29]
Without Havana (Sin la Habana) Kaveh Nabatian Yonah Acosta, Evelyn O’Farrill, Aki Yaghoubi [43]
You Will Remember Me (Tu te souviendras de moi) Éric Tessier Rémy Girard, France Castel, Julie Le Breton [3]

See also[]

References[]

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