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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 |
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88:88 (2015) | Isiah Medina | 🇺🇸 Kanopy | |
Anne at 13,000 ft (2019) | Kazik Radwanski | Coming soon! | |
Antigone (2019) | Sophie Deraspe | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Maison 4:3 |
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 May 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 |
The Demons (2015) | Philippe Lesage | 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇺🇸 Amazon, Vudu, iTunes 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
Easy Land (2019) | Sanja Zivkovic | 🇨🇦 Crave + 🇺🇸 Vudu | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
Edge of the Knife (2018) | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes | |
Falls Around Her (2018) | Darlene Naponse | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube 🇺🇸 iTunes, YouTube, GooglePlay, Amazon |
Felix and Meira (2015) | Maxime Giroux | 🇺🇸 Prime Video | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
Firecrackers (2018) | Jasmin Mozaffari | 🇨🇦 Crave+, 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 🇺🇸 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 | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
Kuessipan (2019) | Myriam Verreault | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 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 🇬🇧 Coming Soon! |
MS Slavic 7 (2019) | Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Mubi | |
Murmur (2019) | Heather Young | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
My Internship in Canada (2015) | Philippe Falardeau | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes | |
Nadia, Butterfly (2020) | Pascal Plante | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
Nelly (2016) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Amazon | |
Never Steady, Never Still (2017) | Kathleen Hepburn | 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Roku, Tubi 🇬🇧 Mubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes |
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) | Zacharias Kunuk | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes | |
Our Loved Ones (2015) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 realeyz | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
Paper Year (2018) | Rebecca Addelman | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
Percy (2020) | Clark Johnson | Coming soon in Canada | |
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 | |
Rustic Oracle (2019) | Sonia Boileau | Vimeo on Demand 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 🇬🇧 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 |
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 | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Criterion Channel 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy | |
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 |
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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 | |
Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr (2015) | Michelle Shephard, Patrick Reed | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
HURT (2015) | Alan Zweig | Not available | |
John Ware Reclaimed (2020) | Cheryl Foggo | On the festival circuit | |
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2018) | Alanis Obomsawin | NFB | |
League of Exotique Dancers (2015) | Rama Rau | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
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 | On the festival circuit | |
Our People Will Be Healed (2017) | Alanis Obomsawin | NFB | |
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 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 | On the festival circuit |
Shorts
Title | Director | Where to Watch |
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Cowboy of Mount Laurier (2017) | Gabriel Vilandré | Free on Vimeo |
Delphine (2019) | Chloé Robichaud | 🇺🇸 Mubi |
Emma (2016) | Martin Edralin | Not available |
Gods Acre (2016) | Kelton Stepanowich | Free on Vimeo |
Hand. Line. Cod. (2016) | Justin Simms | Free on NFB |
Jarvik (2019) | Emilie Mannering | Not available yet |
Living Here (2017) | Sarah Baril Gaudet | Not available |
Measure (2019) | Karen Chapman | Not available |
Mia’ (2015) | Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett | Rent at Vucavu |
Milk (2017) | Heather Young | Free on Vimeo |
A New Year (2015) | Marie-Ève Juste | Not available |
NINA (2015) | Halima Elkhatabi | Rent on Vimeo |
No Crying at the Dinner Table (2019) | Carol Nguyen | Free on Vimeo |
Nothing About Moccasins (2016) | Eden Malina Awashish | Stream free on Wakiponi |
Point and Line to Plane (2020) | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Not available |
Rebel (2019) | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Not available |
The Road to Webequie (2016) | Ryan Noth, Tess Girard | Stream free on YouTube |
Shahzad (2016) | Haya Waseem | Stream free on Vimeo |
Small Fry (2016) | Eva Michon | Stream free on Vimeo |
The Smoke (2016) | Rebecca Addelman | Not available |
SNIP (2016) | Terril Calder | Rent on Sofy |
Still Processing (2020) | Sophy Romvari | On the festival circuit |
This Ink Runs Deep (2019) | Asia Youngman | Stream free on YouTube |
Thug (2017) | Daniel Boos | Stream free on YouTube |
Tshiuetin (2016) | Caroline Monnet | Stream free on Vimeo |
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum (2018) | Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler | Stream free on YouTube |