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Discover the best new Canadian films from the last five years through interviews with the filmmakers and actors who made them and essays on the films. We also help you locate where to stream the films around the world.
Narrative Films
| Title | Director | Where to Stream | Where to Rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88:88 (2015) | Isiah Medina | 🇺🇸 Kanopy | |
| Anne at 13,000 ft (2019) | Kazik Radwanski | In Canadian virtual cinemas; coming to the US in 2021 | |
| Antigone (2019) | Sophie Deraspe | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇦🇺 Stan | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Maison 4:3 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| Ava (2017) | Sadaf Foroughi | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy | 🇦🇺 Google Play, YouTube 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 iTunes 🇬🇧 BFI Player, Curzon Home Video |
| Beans (2020) | Tracey Deer | Coming to theatres in August 2021 | |
| Before the Streets (2016) | Chloé Leriche | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand | |
| Blood Quantum (2019) | Jeff Barnaby | 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 Shudder 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (2019) | Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺Netflix 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Boundaries (Pays) (2016) | Chloé Robichaud | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube | |
| Castle in the Ground (2019) | Joey Klein | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Starz | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019) | Albert Shin | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Hulu 🇬🇧 Netflix | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Closet Monster (2016) | Stephen Dunn | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave Starz, Tubi 🇺🇸 Kanopy, realeyz 🇬🇧 Prime | 🇬🇧 BFI Player, Amazon, iTunes 🇺🇸 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes, Vudu |
| The Demons (2015) | Philippe Lesage | 🇺🇸 Kanopy, dekkoo, Fil Movement | 🇺🇸 Amazon, Vudu, iTunes 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand, Microsoft |
| Easy Land (2019) | Sanja Zivkovic | 🇨🇦 Crave +, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Vudu Free, Mubi, Hoopla | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Edge of the Knife (2018) | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Falls Around Her (2018) | Darlene Naponse | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Prime | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube 🇺🇸 iTunes, YouTube, GooglePlay, Amazon |
| Felix and Meira (2015) | Maxime Giroux | 🇺🇸 Prime Video | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
| Firecrackers (2018) | Jasmin Mozaffari | 🇨🇦 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Kanopy, Hoopla | 🇺🇸 iTunes, Amazon |
| The Fireflies Are Gone (2018) | Sébastien Pilote | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇦🇺 SBS Movies | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Fire Song (2015) | Adam Garnet Jones | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Prime, Roku, Tubi | 🇺🇸 iTunes, Dekkoo, Amazon |
| Genèse (2018) | Philippe Lesage | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Mubi 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla, Film Movement Plus 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Giant Little Ones (2018) | Keith Behrman | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla, CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Starz, Kanopy | 🇬🇧 BFI Player |
| The Great Darkened Days (2018) | Maxime Giroux | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| Hello Destroyer (2016) | Kevan Funk | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Prime Video | |
| How Heavy This Hammer (2015) | Kazik Radwanski | 🇺🇸 Tubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Indian Horse (2018) | Stephen S. Campanelli | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Netflix | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Into the Forest (2016) | Patricia Rozema | 🇨🇦 Crave Starz, Hoopla, Tubi 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Showtime, Kanopy 🇬🇧 Prime Video | |
| Jeune Juliette (2019) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦 Kanopy | 🇨🇦 iTunes 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| Kuessipan (2019) | Myriam Verreault | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇬🇧 Prime Video 🇦🇺 SBS on Demand | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand, iTunes |
| The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (2017) | Simon Lavoie | 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy, Tubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Luk’Luk’l (2017) | Wayne Wapeemukwa | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video | |
| Meditation Park (2017) | Mina Shum | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Mes Nuits Feront Écho (2016) | Sophie Goyette | ||
| Minotauro (2015) | Nicolás Pereda | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Mubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Monkey Beach (2020) | Loretta Sarah Todd | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | |
| Mouthpiece (2018) | Patricia Rozema | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes 🇺🇸 YouTube, GooglePlay, Vudu 🇬🇧 VOD |
| MS Slavic 7 (2019) | Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 dafilms.com | |
| Murmur (2019) | Heather Young | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| My Internship in Canada (2015) | Philippe Falardeau | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes | |
| Nadia, Butterfly (2020) | Pascal Plante | 🇦🇺 Nadia, Butterfly | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Nelly (2016) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Amazon | |
| Never Steady, Never Still (2017) | Kathleen Hepburn | 🇨🇦 Prime Video 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Roku, Tubi 🇬🇧 Mubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes |
| One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) | Zacharias Kunuk | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Our Loved Ones (2015) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 realeyz | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Paper Year (2018) | Rebecca Addelman | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes 🇨🇦🇺🇸Google Play, YouTube |
| Percy (2020) | Clark Johnson | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play | |
| Possessor (2020) | 🇨🇦 Crave + 🇺🇸 Hulu | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play | |
| Québexit (2020) | Joshua Demers | Coming soon in Canada | |
| The Rainbow Kid (2016) | Kire Paputts | ||
| The Rest of Us (2019) | Aisling Chin-Yee | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hulu, Hoopla 🇬🇧 Netflix | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Rhymes for Young Ghouls | Jeff Barnaby | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave+, Hoopla, Fandor 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Kanopy, Fandor 🇦🇺 Shudder | |
| Rustic Oracle (2019) | Sonia Boileau | 🇨🇦 Prime Video | Vimeo on Demand worldwide, iTunes worldwide |
| Saint-Narcisse (2020) | Bruce LaBruce | Coming to cinemas in 2021 | |
| Sleeping Giant (2015) | Andrew Cividino | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Prime 🇺🇸 Prime, Tubi, Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
| Slut in a Good Way (2018) | Sophie Lorain | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV 🇺🇸 Prime, Kanopy, Tubi, Pluto TV | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Spinster (2020) | Andrea Dorfman | 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Vudu Free 🇬🇧 Now TV | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes, Google Play |
| Splinters (2018) | Thom Fitzgerald | 🇨🇦 Virtual Cinemas | |
| Take This Waltz (2010) | Sarah Polley | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Prime, Hoopla, Tubi, Mubi 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, RealEyz, Vudu, Crackle | 🇬🇧 Amazon, Google Play, iTunes 🇦🇺 iTunes, Google Play |
| Tia and Piujuq (2018) | Lucy Tulugarjuk | 🇨🇦 Crave + | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016) | Simon Lavoie , Mathieu Denis | 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
| Tito (2019) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes | ||
| The Twentieth Century (2019) | Matthew Rankin | 🇨🇦 Crave+ 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇨🇦iTunes |
| Ville-Marie (2015) | Guy Édoin | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| The VVitch (2015) | Robert Eggers | 🇨🇦 Tubi 🇺🇸 Kanopy, Showtime | 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Werewolf (2017) | Ashley McKenzie | 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇬🇧 iTunes |
| What If/The F Word (2013) | Michael Dowse | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Prime, Fandor, Crave Starz 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Fandor 🇬🇧 Netflix | 🇦🇺 Google Play, iTunes |
| Window Horses (2016) | Ann Marie Fleming | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, NFB 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| White Lie (2019) | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Hoopla | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| Zoom (2015) | Pedro Morelli | 🇨🇦 Crave Starz, Tubi 🇦🇺 SBS on Demand | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes, Google Play |
Documentaries
| Title | Director | Where to stream | Where to rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Governments Lie | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV 🇺🇸 Kanopy | ||
| Angry Inuk (2016) | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Prime, NFB 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy, OVID 🇬🇧 Prime | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Anote’s Ark (2018) | Matthieu Rytz | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes 🇬🇧🇦🇺 Vimeo on Demand |
| Anthropocene (2018) | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier | 🇨🇦 Crave 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play |
| The Apology (2016) | Tiffany Hsiung | 🇨🇦 Prime Video, Hoopla, NFB 🇺🇸 Hoopla, Kanopy, OVID 🇬🇧 Prime | 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| Conviction (2019) | Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, Nance Ackerman | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| First Stripes (2018) | Jean-François Caissy | 🇨🇦 NFB, iciTouTV 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime | 🇺🇸 🇬🇧iTunes |
| Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr (2015) | Michelle Shephard, Patrick Reed | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| HURT (2015) | Alan Zweig | Not available | |
| John Ware Reclaimed (2020) | Cheryl Foggo | 🇨🇦 NFB | 🇺🇸 🇬🇧iTunes |
| Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2018) | Alanis Obomsawin | NFB | 🇺🇸 🇬🇧iTunes, Amazon |
| League of Exotique Dancers (2015) | Rama Rau | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇬🇧 Prime | |
| Love & Stuff (2020) | Judith Helfand | On the festival circuit | |
| Maison du Bonheur (2017) | Sofia Bohdanowicz | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Kanopy | |
| Manic (2017) | Kalina Bertin | Vimeo on Demand | |
| Mermaids (2018) | Ali Weinstein | 🇨🇦 YouTube | |
| Mostly Sunny (2017) | Dilip Mehta | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Netflix | |
| My Enemy, My Brother (2015) | Ann Shin | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 GuideDoc | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 YouTube, Google Play |
| Ninth Floor (2015) | Mina Shum | 🇨🇦 NFB 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) | Tanya Hubbard | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| No Ordinary Man (2020) | Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt | 🇨🇦 iTunes Coming soon to US cinemas | |
| Our People Will Be Healed (2017) | Alanis Obomsawin | NFB 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| RISE (2017) | Michelle Latimer | 🇦🇺 SBS Movies | 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| The Road Forward (2017) | Marie Clements | 🇨🇦 NFB, Prime | |
| Sex, Sin & 69 (2020) | Sara Fodey | On the festival circuit | |
| Shadow of Dumont (2020) | Trevor Cameron | On the festival circuit | |
| Shiners (2017) | Stacey Tenenbaum | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| The Stone Speakers (2018) | Igor Drljaca | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| Sugar Daddy (2020) | Wendy Morgan | 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 iTunes, VOD | |
| Sugar Sisters | Ann Shin, Hannah Donegan | 🇨🇦 CBC | |
| Stateless (2020) | Michèle Stephenson | on the festival circuit | |
| Tempest Storm (2016) | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play. YouTube | ||
| There’s No Place Like This Place Anyplace (2020) | Lulu Wei | On the festival circuit | |
| This Changes Everything (2015) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video 🇦🇺 DocPlay | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play | |
| Wintopia (2020) | Mira Burt-Wintonick | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
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