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Here you’ll find links to all of our Canadian film coverage with information on where to stream. Sign up for our newsletter to keep abreast of the latest in Canadian film.
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 | Coming soon! | |
| Antigone (2019) | Sophie Deraspe | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Maison 4:3 |
| Ava (2017) | Sadaf Foroughi | 🇨🇦 Crave+, CBC Gem 🇺🇸 Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla | 🇦🇺 Google Play, YouTube 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Before the Streets (2016) | Chloé Leriche | 🇦🇺 SBS on Demand | 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
| Blood Quantum (2019) | Jeff Barnaby | 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 Shudder | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (2019) | Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺Netflix 🇨🇦 CBC Gem (June 26) | 🇨🇦 iTunes (currently free!) |
| Boundaries (Pays) (2016) | Chloé Robichaud | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube | |
| Castle in the Ground (2019) | Joey Klein | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube | |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019) | Albert Shin | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes | |
| Closet Monster (2016) | Stephen Dunn | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave Starz 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Kanopy, realeyz | 🇬🇧 BFI Player |
| The Demons (2015) | Philippe Lesage | 🇺🇸 Film Movement Plus | 🇺🇸 Amazon, Vudu, iTunes 🇨🇦 Vimeo on Demand |
| Easy Land (2019) | Sanja Zivkovic | 🇨🇦 Crave + | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Edge of the Knife (2018) | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes | |
| Falls Around Her (2018) | Darlene Naponse | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Felix and Meira (2015) | Maxime Giroux | 🇺🇸 Kanopy, Prime Video | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
| Firecrackers (2018) | Jasmin Mozaffari | 🇨🇦 Crave+, Hoopla 🇺🇸 Kanopy, Hoopla | 🇺🇸 iTunes, Amazon |
| The Fireflies Are Gone (2018) | Sébastien Pilote | 🇦🇺 SBS Movies | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Fire Song (2015) | Adam Garnet Jones | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇺🇸 iTunes, Dekkoo, Amazon |
| Genèse (2018) | Philippe Lesage | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla 🇺🇸 Film Movement Plus | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 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 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Prime Video | |
| How Heavy This Hammer (2015) | Kazik Radwanski | 🇨🇦 Prime Video | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Indian Horse (2018) | Stephen S. Campanelli | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Into the Forest (2016) | Patricia Rozema | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Netflix 🇺🇸 Kanopy 🇬🇧 Prime Video | |
| Jeune Juliette (2019) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦 Crave+ | 🇨🇦 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 | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Luk’Luk’l (2017) | Wayne Wapeemukwa | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Prime Video | |
| Meditation Park (2017) | Mina Shum | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave+ | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Mes Nuits Feront Écho (2016) | Sophie Goyette | 🇨🇦 iciTouTV | |
| Minotauro (2015) | Nicolás Pereda | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes | |
| Mouthpiece (2018) | Patricia Rozema | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes 🇺🇸 YouTube, GooglePlay, Vudu |
| MS Slavic 7 (2019) | Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Mubi | |
| Murmur (2019) | Heather Young | Coming soon! | |
| My Internship in Canada (2015) | Philippe Falardeau | 🇨🇦 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes | |
| Nelly (2016) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Amazon | |
| Never Steady, Never Still (2017) | Kathleen Hepburn | 🇨🇦 Crave + 🇺🇸 Prime Video | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes |
| One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) | Zacharias Kunuk | 🇺🇸 Mubi | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Our Loved Ones (2015) | Anne Émond | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 realeyz | 🇨🇦 iTunes |
| Paper Year (2018) | Rebecca Addelman | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺 Netflix | |
| The Rainbow Kid (2016) | Kire Paputts | 🇨🇦 Prime Video 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Hoopla | |
| The Rest of Us (2019) | Aisling Chin-Yee | 🇨🇦 iTunes | 🇺🇸 iTunes |
| Rhymes for Young Ghouls | Jeff Barnaby | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave+ 🇺🇸Prime Video | |
| Sleeping Giant (2015) | Andrew Cividino | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Google Play, YouTube, iTunes |
| Splinters (2018) | Thom Fitzgerald | Not Available…but likely coming to CBC Gem this year! | |
| Take This Waltz (2010) | Sarah Polley | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, Crave+, Prime | |
| 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 | |
| Ville-Marie (2015) | Guy Édoin | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| The VVitch (2015) | Robert Eggers | 🇺🇸 Netflix, Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| Werewolf (2017) | Ashley McKenzie | 🇨🇦 Crave+, CBC Gem 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Prime Video | |
| What If/The F Word (2013) | Michael Dowse | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Netflix 🇺🇸 Prime Video | 🇦🇺 Google Play, iTunes |
| Window Horses (2016) | Ann Marie Fleming | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem 🇬🇧 Prime Video | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play, YouTube |
| White Lie (2019) | Coming soon! | ||
| Zoom (2015) | Pedro Morelli | 🇦🇺 SBS on Dema | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 iTunes, Google Play |
Documentaries
| Title | Director | Where to stream | Where to rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Governments Lie | Kanopy | ||
| Angry Inuk (2016) | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem, 🇨🇦🇬🇧Prime Video 🇺🇸 Tubi, Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes |
| Anote’s Ark (2018) | Matthieu Rytz | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes 🇬🇧🇦🇺 Vimeo on Demand |
| Anthropocene (2018) | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier | 🇨🇦 Hoopla, Crave 🇺🇸 Kanopy | 🇨🇦🇺🇸 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play |
| The Apology (2016) | Tiffany Hsiung | 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺 Prime Video | 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| Conviction (2019) | Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, Nance Ackerman | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| First Stripes (2018) | Jean-François Caissy | NFB | |
| Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr (2015) | Michelle Shephard, Patrick Reed | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| HURT (2015) | Alan Zweig | Not available | |
| Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2018) | Alanis Obomsawin | Coming soon! | |
| League of Exotique Dancers (2015) | Rama Rau | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| 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 | |
| Our People Will Be Healed (2017) | Alanis Obomsawin | NFB | |
| RISE (2017) | Michelle Latimer | 🇦🇺 SBS Movies | 🇺🇸 Amazon |
| The Road Forward (2017) | Marie Clements | NFB (June 15) | |
| Shiners (2017) | Stacey Tenenbaum | 🇨🇦 CBC Gem | |
| The Stone Speakers (2018) | Igor Drljaca | 🇨🇦 iTunes | |
| Sugar Sisters | Ann Shin, Hannah Donegan | 🇨🇦 CBC | |
| Tempest Storm (2016) | 🇨🇦 iTunes, Google Play. YouTube | ||
| This Changes Everything (2015) | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 Prime Video 🇦🇺 DocPlay | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 iTunes, YouTube, Google Play |
Shorts
| Title | Director | Where to Watch |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Coming soon |
| Nothing About Moccasins (2016) | Eden Malina Awashish | Stream free on Wakiponi |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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