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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes  | Ref

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30 Ghosts | Sean Cisterna |  | Documentary |  | [1]
482-Love | Jacob D. Stein | Joanna M. Gallagher, Jacob D. Stein, Joelle Kutner, Mani Nasry | Romantic comedy |  |
13 Eerie | Lowell Dean | Katharine Isabelle, Michael Shanks, Brendan Fehr | Horror |  | [2]
Algonquin | Jonathan Hayes | Mark Rendall, Nicholas Campbell, Sheila McCarthy | Drama |
All That We Make (Fermières) | Annie St-Pierre |  | Documentary |  | [3]
All the Wrong Reasons | Gia Milani | Cory Monteith, Karine Vanasse, Kevin Zegers | Drama |  | [4]
Amsterdam | Stefan Miljevic | Gabriel Sabourin, Louis Champagne, Robin Aubert, Suzanne Clément | Comedy-drama |  | [5]
Anatomy of Assistance | Cory Bowles |  |  |  | [6]
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor | Zack Bernbaum | Bruce Greenwood, Parker Posey | Comedy-drama |  | [7]
The Animal Project | Ingrid Veninger | Aaron Poole, Hannah Cheesman, Sarena Parmar | Drama |
Another House (L'autre maison) | Mathieu Roy | Roy Dupuis, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Marcel Sabourin, Florence Blain Mbaye | Drama |  | [8]
The Art of the Steal | Jonathan Sobol | Kurt Russell, Jay Baruchel | Comedy |  |
Arwad | Dominique Chila, Samer Najari | Ramzi Choukair, Fanny Mallette, Julie McClemens, Dalal Ata | Drama |  | [9]
Asphalt Watches | Shayne Ehman & Seth Scriver |  | Animated |  |
Bad Coyote | Jason Andrew Young | Emily Mitchell, Pierre Rompre | Documentary | Focuses in part on the 2009 death of singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell in a coyote attack | [10]
Beasts in the Real World | Sol Friedman |  | Animated |  | [11]
The Beautiful Risk (Le beau risque) | Mark Penney | Shaun Benson, Eliane Gagnon | Drama |  |
Blood Pressure | Sean Garrity | Michelle Giroux | Drama |  |
Borealis | David Frazee | Ty Olsson, Michelle Harrison, Patrick Gallagher, Greyston Holt | Science fiction |  |
Candy | Cassandra Cronenberg |  |  |  | [12]
Cas & Dylan | Jason Priestley | Richard Dreyfuss, Tatiana Maslany | Comedy |  |
The Chaperone 3D | Fraser Munden, Neil Rathbone |  | Animated, documentary |  | [13]
Chi | Anne Wheeler | Babz Chula | Documentary |  |
Cochemare | Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski |  |  |  |
Compulsion | Egidio Coccimiglio | Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon, Joe Mantegna | Thriller |  | [14]
Cottage Country | Peter Wellington | Malin Åkerman, Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch | Comedy |  |
Crazywater | Dennis Allen |  | Documentary |  | [15]
CRIME: Joe Loya - The Beirut Bandit | Alix Lambert, Sam Chou |  |  |  | [13]
Daybreak (Éclat du jour) | Ian Lagarde |  | Short drama |  | [11]
The Defector: Escape from North Korea | Ann Shin |  | Documentary | Made for TV; premiered at Hot Docs |
Destroyer | Kevan Funk |  |  | Later expanded into a feature film |
The Dick Knost Show | Bruce Sweeney | Tom Scholte | Comedy |  |
Diego Star | Frédérick Pelletier | Isaka Sawadogo, Chloé Bourgeois | Drama |  |
The Dirties | Matt Johnson |  |  |  |
The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) | Sébastien Pilote | Gabriel Arcand, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Sophie Desmarais | Drama | Prix Jutra \- Cinematography |
Down River | Benjamin Ratner | Helen Shaver, Gabrielle Miller, Jennifer Spence, Colleen Rennison | Drama |  |
Drop | Chris Goldade |  |  |  | [6]
Empire of Dirt | Peter Stebbings | Cara Gee, Shay Eyre, Jennifer Podemski, Luke Kirby | Drama |  |
The End of Pinky | Clare Blanchet | Heather O'Neill, Marc-André Grondin | 3D neo-noir animated short |  | [13]
Enemy | Denis Villeneuve | Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon | Thriller | A Canada-Spain co-production; TFCA \- Film of the Year |
Escape from Planet Earth | Callan Brunker | voices Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker, William Shatner | Animated feature | Made with U.S. financing |
Evangeline | Karen Lam | Richard Harmon, Kat de Lieva, Mayumi Yoshida | Horror-Thriller | Direct to DVD |
Everyday Is Like Sunday | Pavan Moondi | David Dineen-Porter, Coral Osborne, Adam Gurfinkel, Nick Thorburn | Comedy-drama |  | [16]
An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire) | Monia Chokri |  | Short drama |  | [13]
The F Word | Michael Dowse | Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan | Drama |  |
Finissant(e)s | Rafaël Ouellet |  | Drama |  |
Firecrackers | Jasmin Mozaffari |  |  | Later expanded into a feature film | [6]
Follow the Fox (Suivre la piste du renard) | Simon Laganière | Mathieu Gosselin, Francis La Haye | Short drama |  |
Fondi '91 | Dev Khanna | Raymond Ablack, Mylène St-Sauveur, Kyle Kirkpatrick | Sports drama |  |
Foreclosure | Wayne Robinson |  |  |  | [6]
The Four Soldiers (Les 4 soldats) | Robert Morin | Camille Mongeau, Christian de la Cortina, Antoine Bertrand, Aliocha Schneider, Antoine L'Écuyer | Drama |  |
Frameworks: Images of a Changing World (Dans un océan d'images) | Helen Doyle |  | Documentary |  | [17]
Gabrielle | Louise Archambault | Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Robert Charlebois, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry | Drama | Prix Jutra \- Director, Screenplay, Editing, Supporting Actress (Désormeaux-Poulin) |
Gaspé Copper | Alexis Fortier Gauthier | Laurie Bissonnette, Annick Bourassa, Martin Desgagné, Mathieu Gagné, Dérick Livernoche | Short drama |  | [18]
Gerontophilia | Bruce LaBruce | Walter Borden, Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Marie-Hélène Thibault, Katie Boland | Drama |  |
Gloria Victoria | Theodore Ushev |  | National Film Board 3D animated short | FIPRESCI prize at Annecy |
A Grand Canal | Johnny Ma |  | Short drama |  | [11]
The Grand Seduction | Don McKellar | Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent | Comedy | A remake of the 2003 film Seducing Doctor Lewis |
Hi-Ho Mistahey! | Alanis Obomsawin |  | National Film Board Documentary | profiles Shannen's Dream |
Hunting the Northern Godard (La Chasse au Godard d'Abbittibbi) | Éric Morin | Martin Dubreuil, Sophie Desmarais, Alexandre Castonguay | Drama |  |
The Husband | Bruce McDonald | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Sarah Allen | Comedy |  |
Impromptu | Bruce Alcock |  |  |  | [13]
In Guns We Trust | Nicolas Lévesque |  |  |  | [12]
It Was You Charlie | Emmanuel Shirinian | Michael D. Cohen, Emma Fleury, Aaron Abrams | Comedy-drama |  |
Une jeune fille | Catherine Martin |  | Drama |  |
Jimbo | Ryan Flowers |  |  |  | [12]
The Last Pogo Jumps Again | Colin Brunton, Kire Paputts | Teenage Head, The Viletones | Documentary |  |
Lawrence & Holloman | Matthew Kowalchuk | Daniel Arnold, Ben Cotton, Katharine Isabelle, Amy Matysio | Comedy |  | [19]
Lay Over | Jordan Hayes |  |  |  | [6]
The Legend of Sarila | Nancy Florence Savard | voices Dustin Milligan, Rachelle Lefevre, Tim Rozon, Christopher Plummer, Geneviève Bujold | Animated feature in 3D |  |
Life's a Bitch (Toutes des connes) | François Jaros | Guillaume Lambert | Short comedy-drama |  |
Louis Cyr | Daniel Roby | Antoine Bertrand, Guillaume Cyr, Gilbert Sicotte, Gil Bellows, Marilyn Castonguay | Biographical drama | Prix Jutra \- Best Picture, Actor (Bertrand), Supporting Actor (Cyr), Art Direction, Costumes, Makeup, Hair, Sound |
Maïna | Michel Poulette | Roseanne Supernault, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Schweig, Natar Ungalaaq | Historical drama |  |
Mama | Andres Muschietti | Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Horror | Canada-Spain co-production |
Mary & Myself | Sam Decoste |  | Animated documentary |  |
Meetings with a Young Poet | Rudy Barichello | Stephen McHattie, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais, Maria de Medeiros | Drama |  |
The Meteor (Le Météore) | François Delisle | François Delisle, Noémie Godin-Vigneau | Drama |  |
Method | Gregory Smith |  |  |  | [12]
A Mile End Tale (Conte du Mile End) | Jean-François Lesage |  | Documentary |  | [20]
Molly Maxwell | Sara St. Onge | Lola Tash, Charlie Carrick | Drama |  |
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Harald Zwart | Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Kevin Durand, Jared Harris | Action-adventure science fantasy | A Canada-German co-production based on the first book of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare; Golden Reel Award; Canadian Screen Awards \- Make-Up, Sound, Visual Effects. |
My Prairie Home | Chelsea McMullan | Rae Spoon | National Film Board Documentary |  |
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible | John Kastner |  | National Film Board Documentary | premiere at Hot Docs |
Noah | Walter Woodman, Patrick Cederberg | Sam Kantor, Caitlin McConkey-Pirie | Short film | Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Live Action Short Drama | [11]
Numbers & Friends | Alexander Carson |  |  |  | [13]
Oil Sands Karaoke | Charles Wilkinson | Dan Debrabandere, Chad Ellis, Massey Whiteknife, Brandy Willier | Documentary |  |
Our Man in Tehran | Larry Weinstein & Drew Taylor | Kenneth D. Taylor | Documentary | Canadian Screen Awards \- Best Documentary Program |
Out | Jeremy LaLonde | David Tompa, David Huband, Rosemary Doyle, Paula Brancati, Tommie-Amber Pirie | Short comedy-drama |  | [11]
The Oxbow Cure | Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | Claudia Dey | Drama |  |
Paradise Falls | Fantavious Fritz | Alex Crowther, Alistair Ball, Uri Livene-Bar, Daiva Zalnieriunas | Short, horror, comedy |  | [21]
Paradiso | Devan Scott |  |  |  | [6]
Pilgrims | Marie Clements |  |  |  |
Please Kill Mr. Know It All | Colin Carter & Sandra Feldman | Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jefferson Brown | Romantic comedy |  |
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence | Randall Okita |  |  |  | [12]
Québékoisie | Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins |  | Documentary |  |
Relax, I'm from the Future | Luke Higginson | Zachary Bennett, Rick Roberts | Short, comedy | Later expanded into a 2022 feature film | [21]
Remember Me (Mémorable moi) | Jean-François Asselin | Émile Proulx-Cloutier | Short drama |  |
Rhymes for Young Ghouls | Jeff Barnaby | Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould | Drama |  |
The Right Kind of Wrong | Jeremiah S. Chechik | Ryan Kwanten, Will Sasso, Catherine O'Hara | Romance |  |
Riptide (Ressac) | Pascale Ferland | Martin Dubreuil, Muriel Dutil | Drama |  |
The River's Lazy Flow (Le courant faible de la rivière) | Joël Vaudreuil | Animated short |  | [22]
Roaming | Michael Ray Fox | Cory Bowles, Rhys Bevan-John, Christina Cuffari | Drama | "Best Feature" Toronto Independent Film Festival |
Rock Paper Scissors (Roche papier ciseaux) | Yan Lanouette Turgeon | Roy Dupuis, Remo Girone | Crime drama | Prix Jutra \- Original Score |
Roland | Trevor Cornish |  |  |  | [13]
Sam's Formalwear | Yael Staav | Judah Katz, Kristina Nicoll, Sofie Uretsky | Short drama |  | [21]
Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course) | Chloé Robichaud | Hélène Florent, Sophie Desmarais, Micheline Lanctôt | Drama |  |
Seasick | Eva Cvijanovic |  | Animated |  | [11]
Señoritas | Lina Rodríguez | María Serrano, Clara Monroy, Angela Katherine Laverde | Drama | Colombian-Canadian coproduction |
Sex After Kids | Jeremy Lalonde | Zoie Palmer, Paul Amos, Katie Boland, Kristin Booth | Comedy |  |
Siddharth | Richie Mehta | Rajesh Tailang | Drama | Canada-India co-production |
Singularity Principle | David Robert Deranian & Austin Robert Hines | William B. Davis | science fiction film | Canada-Bahamas-Australia co-production made with U.S. financing |
The Sower (Le semeur) | Julie Perron | Patrice Fortier | Documentary |  |
The Sparkling River | Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël |  |  |  |
Stay | Wiebke von Carolsfeld |  | Drama |  |
The Storm Within (Rouge sang) | Martin Doepner | Isabelle Guérard, Lothaire Bluteau, Anthony Lemke | Drama/thriller |  |
Subconscious Password | Chris Landreth | Chris Landreth, John Dilworth | 3-D animated short | best short film at Annecy International Animated Film Festival |
Time Flies (Nous avions) | Stéphane Moukarzel |  | Short drama |  | [21]
That Burning Feeling | Jason James | Paulo Costanzo, Ingrid Haas, Tyler Labine, John Cho | Comedy |  | [23]
A Time Is a Terrible Thing to Waste | Leslie Supnet |  | Animated short |  | [21]
Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) | Xavier Dolan | Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros | Adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, | Prix Jutra \- Supporting Actor (Cardinal) |
Triptych (Triptyque) | Pedro Pires & Robert Lepage | Frédérike Bédard, Lise Castonguay, Hans Piesbergen | Drama |  |
Tru Love | Shauna MacDonald & Kate Johnston | Shauna MacDonald, Kate Trotter, Christine Horne | Drama |  |
Unclaimed | Michael Jorgensen | John Hartley Robertson | Documentary | premiere at Hot Docs |
Der Untermensch | Kays Mejri |  |  |  | [12]
Uvanga | Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu | Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Marianne Farley, Madeline Ivalu | Drama |  |
Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic et Flo ont vu un ours) | Denis Côté | Marc-André Grondin, Romane Bohringer, Pierrette Robitaille | drama | Entered into the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival; Prix Jutra \- Actress (Robitaille) |
Waiting for Spring (En attendant le printemps) | Marie Geneviève Chabot |  | Documentary | Prix Jutra \- Documentary | [24]
Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky |  | Documentary | TFCA \- Best Canadian Film; Best Feature Length Documentary - Canadian Screen Awards |
We Wanted More | Stephen Dunn |  |  |  | [12]
When Jews Were Funny | Alan Zweig |  | Documentary | TIFF \- Best Canadian Feature |
Whitewash | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Thomas Haden Church, Anie Pascale, Marc Labrèche | Drama | Winner of the Claude Jutra Award |
Yellowhead | Kevan Funk | Paul McGillion, Michael Kopsa, Kurt Max Runte | Short drama |  | [21]
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Kyle Catlett, Niamh Wilson, Helena Bonham Carter, Kathy Bates, Callum Keith Rennie | Drama | Canada-France-Australia co-production |
Young Wonder | James Wilkes |  | Short |  | [11]

## See also

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* 2013 in Canada
* 2013 in Canadian television

## References

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1. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Sean Cisterna’s 30 Ghosts doc spawns talks for U.S. reality series". Playback, October 22, 2013.
2. ^ Barton, Steve (October 7, 2011). "More 13 Eerie News Shambles In". Dread Central. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
3. ^ "Heirs and conveyors of feminine heritage; Baking, knitting, cooking". Montreal Gazette, April 18, 2014.
4. ^ Cooke, Stephen (August 11, 2012). "Halifax offers all the right reasons". Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
5. ^ "«Amsterdam» de Stefan Miljevic: trois hommes, un voyage et un mensonge". Canadian Press, October 3, 2013.
6. ^ a b c d e f Jared Mobarak, "TIFF Short Cuts Capsules: ‘Firecrackers,’ ‘Lay Over,’ ‘Paradiso,’ ‘Foreclosure’ & More". The Film Stage, September 14, 2013.
7. ^ "And Now a Word from Our Sponsor: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter, April 29, 2013.
8. ^ Ronnie Scheib, "Film Review: ‘Another House’". Variety, September 29, 2013.
9. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Arwad – Film de Samer Najari et Dominique Chila". Films du Québec, January 10, 2014.
10. ^ "Local filmmaker has new doc on coyotes". SaltWire Network, October 23, 2013.
11. ^ a b c d e f g Jared Mobarak, "TIFF Short Cuts Capsules: ‘Young Wonder,’ ‘Noah,’ ‘Beasts in the Real World,’ ‘Seasick’ & More". The Film Stage, September 10, 2013.
12. ^ a b c d e f g Jared Mobarak, "TIFF Short Cuts Capsules: ‘We Wanted More,’ ‘In Guns We Trust,’ ‘Candy,’ ‘Jimbo’ & More". The Film Stage, September 11, 2013.
13. ^ a b c d e f g Jared Mobarak, "TIFF Short Cuts Capsules: ‘An Extraordinary Person,’ ‘Roland,’ ‘The End of Pinky’ & More". The Film Stage, September 13, 2013.
14. ^ Wilson, Chuck (18 July 2013). "Compulsion: Thriller or Satire?". Miami New Times. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
15. ^ Stephanie Waddell, "Local filmmaker to show new documentary at film festival". Whitehorse Star, January 31, 2014.
16. ^ Anderson, Jason (August 15, 2013). "Everyday is Like Sunday: Local indie comedy about conflicted young people is smart, energetic: Interview". Toronto Star. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
17. ^ André Duchesne, "Helen Doyle, trouver un sens à un océan d'images". La Presse, September 15, 2013.
18. ^ Véronique St-Onge, "Le festival Les Percéides mise sur le cinéma gaspésien". Graffici, August 12, 2013.
19. ^ Janet Smith, "Lawrence & Holloman serves its comedy nihilistically black". The Georgia Straight, July 16, 2014.
20. ^ André Duchesne, "Conte du Mile End: propos nocturnes". La Presse, December 3, 2013.
21. ^ a b c d e f Jared Mobarak, "TIFF Short Cuts Capsules: ‘Paradise Falls,’ ‘Yellowhead,’ ‘I’m From the Future’ & More". The Film Stage, September 12, 2013.
22. ^ André Duchesne, "Cinéma d'animation: le Québec en force à Annecy". La Presse, March 31, 2013.
23. ^ Mark Leiren-Young, "VIFF jury sold on That Burning Feeling; Director of award-winning comedy stresses importance of Vancouver as backdrop for the film". Vancouver Sun, October 18, 2013.
24. ^ "En attendant le printemps: Tough and resilient northerners keep busy, waiting for spring". Montreal Gazette, April 10, 2013.

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