List of Canadian films of 2015
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2015:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 88 | Tim Doiron | Katharine Isabelle, Christopher Lloyd | Thriller | Straight to DVD |
| ' | Isiah Medina | Experimental docudrama | ||
| Across the Line | Director X | Stephan James, Sarah Jeffery, Shamier Anderson | Drama | |
| Adrien | Renée Beaulieu | Normand D'Amour, Louise Portal | Drama | |
| After the Last River | Victoria Lean | Theresa Spence | Documentary | |
| Al Purdy Was Here | Brian D. Johnson | Al Purdy | Documentary | |
| Always Again | Jean-François Boisvenue | Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Valerie Cadieux | 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 | ||
| 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 |
| Bite | Chad Archibald | Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Denise Yeun, Jordan Grey | Horror | |
| Blue Thunder | Philippe-David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy | Dany Placard, Isabelle Blais, Sandrine Bisson, Louis Champagne | 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 |
| 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 | Marquise Lepage | Annick Fontaine, Christian Michaud | Romantic comedy | |
| Charlotte's Song | 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 | Philippe Lesage | Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
| Le Dep | Sonia Boileau | Eve Ringuette, Charles Buckell-Robertson, Yan England | Drama, thriller | |
| 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 | Bernard Émond | Paul Savoie, Marie Ève Pelletier | Drama | Based on Chekhov’s short story, "A Boring Story" |
| ' | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Fractured Land | Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis | Caleb Behn | Documentary films | |
| 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 ', a Canadian citizen convicted on terrorism charges and subsequently incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay |
| Gurov and Anna | Rafaël Ouellet | Drama | ||
| Hadwin's Judgement | Sasha Snow | Documentary | ||
| ' | 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 | Ryan McKenna | Marie Brassard, Francis La Haye, Hugo Giroux, Amadou & Mariam | comedy-drama | Best Feature Film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema |
| Hellions | Bruce McDonald | Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland | Horror | |
| Hevn | Kjersti Steinsbø | Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Trond Espen Seim, Siren Jørgensen | Drama | Canada-Norway co-production |
| Highway of Tears | Matthew Smiley | Nathan Fillion | Documentary | Best Documentary award at the Malibu Film Festival |
| 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 |
| 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 | Marc-Antoine Lemire | Rudi Duperré, Samuel Brassard, Jade Hassouné | Short drama | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| The Little Deputy | Trevor Anderson | Trevor Anderson | Short documentary | |
| Les Loups | Sophie Deraspe | Evelyne Brochu, Louise Portal, Gilbert Sicotte | Drama | |
| The Man in the Shadows | Joshua Fraiman | Sarah Jurgens, Alison Louder | Drama | |
| The Man Who Shot Hollywood | Barry Avrich | Jack Pashkovsky | Documentary | |
| The Messenger | Su Rynard | Documentary | ||
| Mina Walking | Yosef Baraki | Farzana Nawabi, Hashmatullah Fanai, Qadir Aryaie | National Film Board drama | Canada-Afghanistan co-production |
| The Mirage | Ricardo Trogi | Louis Morissette, Julie Perreault | Comedy-drama | |
| Mobilize | Caroline Monneti | National Film Board documentary | Musical score by Tanya Tagaq | |
| My Enemies | Stéphane Géhami | Louise Marleau, Frédéric Lemay, Hubert Proulx | Drama | |
| My Internship in Canada | 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, 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 | |
| Numb | Jason R. Goode | Jamie Bamber, Marie Avgeropoulos, Aleks Paunovic | Drama | |
| O Negative | Steven McCarthy | Steven McCarthy, Alyx Melone | Horror short | |
| Our Loved Ones | Anne Émond | Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay | Drama | Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Picture |
| Overpass | Patrice Laliberté | Short drama | ||
| The Passion of 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 | ||
| A Place Called Shandro | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Imajyn Cardinal, Pascale Bussières, Brandon Oakes | Drama | |
| Scratch | Sébastien Godron | Raphaël Joseph Lafond, Fayolle Jean, Jr., Schelby Jean-Baptiste | Musical drama | |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Zachary Russell | Kayla Lorette, Julian Richings | Short drama | |
| Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino | Jackson Martin, Nick Serino | Drama | TIFF - Best First Feature; Canadian Screen Award Best Supporting Actor Nick Serino |
| The Sleepwalker | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | ||
| Snowtime! | Jean-François Pouliot | Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis, Sophie Cadieux, Gildor Roy | Animated | Remake of 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War |
| Some Kind of Love | Thomas Burstyn | Yolanda Sonnabend, Joseph Sonnabend | Documentary | |
| The Sound of Trees | François Péloquin | Antoine L'Écuyer, Roy Dupuis | Drama | |
| Star | Emilie Mannering | Short drama | ||
| The Steps | Andrew Currie | James Brolin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lahti, Jason Ritter | Comedy, drama | |
| Sugar Coated | Michèle Hozer | 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 | Onur Karaman | Émile Schneider, Ambrosio De Luca, Julie Deslauriers, 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, Doug Nayler | Short documentary | ||
| Luca Boni & Marco Ristori | Lucy Drive, Ally McClelland, Dan van Husen | Horror | Canada-Italy co-production | |
| Zoom | Pedro Morelli | Gael García Bernal, Mariana Ximenes, Alison Pill, Don McKellar | Animated, live-action | Canada-Brazil co-production |