Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
3 Needles | Thom Fitzgerald | Lucy Liu, Olympia Dukakis, Shawn Ashmore, Sandra Oh | AIDS Drama | |
7 Times Lucky | Gary Yates | Kevin Pollak, Liane Balaban, Jonas Chernick, James Tolkan, Babz Chula | Crime drama | Genie Award - Song |
Alone in the Dark | Uwe Boll | Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff | Sci-fi horror | Canada-German co-production made with U.S. financing |
American Haunting !An American Haunting | Courtney Solomon | Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood | Horror | Canada-U.K.-Romania co-production made with U.S. financing |
American Soldiers | Sidney J. Furie | Curtis Morgan | Action | Direct to DVD |
L'Audition | Luc Picard | Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Alexis Martin, Denis Bernard | Drama | Genie Award – Supporting Actor (Bernard); Prix Jutra – Musical Score |
Aurora Borealis | James C. E. Burke | Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher | Romance | Made with U.S. financing |
Aurore | Luc Dionne | Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo, Stéphanie Lapointe, Alice Morel-Michaud | Drama | Based on true story of Aurore Gagnon; a remake of the 1952 film, La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre. |
Bailey's Billion$ | David Devine | Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim Curry, Sheila McCarthy | Family comedy | |
Bangkok Girl | Jordan Clark | | Documentary | About sex tourism in Bangkok; made for TV |
Being Caribou | Leanne Allison & Diana Wilson | | National Film Board documentary | |
Being Human | Denys Desjardins | | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | |
Beowulf & Grendel | Sturla Gunnarsson | Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson | Epic Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Adaptation of the epic poem, Beowulf; filmed in Iceland; Canada-Iceland-Australia co-production |
Big Girl | Renuka Jeyapaian | Samantha Weinstein, Kris Holden-Reid | Short | TIFF – Best Canadian Short |
Big White !The Big White | Denys Desjardins | Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown, Alison Lohman | | Canada-New Zealand co-production made with U.S. financing |
Black Widow | David Mortin | Sarah Slean, Martin Tielli, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Tom McCamus, Julian Richings | | A "Film Noir Musical" is based on the Evelyn Dick murder case made for TV. |
Bloodsuckers | Matthew Hastings | Dominic Zamprogna, A.J. Cook, Natassia Malthe | Horror | Made for TV |
Bone | Mila Aung-Thwin | | Documentary | Made for TV |
Les Boys IV | George Mihalka | Rémy Girard, Pierre Lebeau, Marc Messier | Comedy | |
Brotherhood !The Brotherhood IV | David DeCoteau | Sebastian Gacki, April Telek | Horror | |
Cake | Nisha Ganatra | Heather Graham, David Sutcliffe, Taye Diggs, Sandra Oh, Cheryl Hines, Bruce Gray | Romantic comedy | Made with U.S. financing |
Care Bears !The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie | Larry Jacobs & Ron Pitts | voices Stephanie Beard, Robert Tinkler, Julie Lemieux, Linda Ballantyne, Stephen Ouimette | Animated feature | Direct to DVD |
Chairman George | Daniel Cross & Mila Aung-Thwin | George Sapounidis | Documentary | Made for TV |
cNote | Christopher Hinton | Michael Oesterle (music) | Visual music; animated short | Genie Award for Best Animated Short |
Continuous Journey | Ali Kazimi | | Documentary | In 1914 the Komagata Maru, a vessel with 378 immigrants sailing from Hong Kong, arrived in Vancouver only to become the first ship carrying migrants turned away by Canada. |
Crazy !C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée | Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Pierre-Luc Brillant | Family Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature |
Dark Hours !The Dark Hours | Paul Fox | Kate Greenhouse, Aidan Devine, Gordon Currie, Dov Tiefenbach | Thriller | Direct to DVD |
Deluxe Combo Platter | Vic Sarin | Maria Sokoloff, Jennifer Tilly, Monika Schnarre, Barry Watson, Dave Thomas | Comedy | |
Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique) | Ricardo Trogi | Patrice Robitaille | Comedy | |
Eighteen | Richard Bell | Brendan Fletcher, Carly Pope, Alan Cumming, Ian McKellen | Drama | Festival premiere was in tandem with 60th Anniversary of the end of WWII |
Les États nordiques | Denis Côté | Christian LeBlanc | Drama | |
Eve and the Fire Horse | Julia Kwan | Phoebe Jojo Kut, Hollie Lo, Vivian Wu, Lester Chan | Drama | Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award |
Familia | Louise Archambault | Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Juliette Gosselin, Micheline Lanctôt | Family drama | Claude Jutra Award; TIFF – Best First Feature |
Fetching Cody | David Ray | Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Nicole Munoz, Jim Byrnes, Ken Jones | Drama | |
Getting Gilliam | Vincenzo Natali | | Documentary | About the making of Terry Gilliam's film Tideland made for TV. |
Guy X | Saul Metzstein | Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Michael Ironside | Mystery, comedy | Canada-U.K.-Iceland co-production |
Hamster Cage !The Hamster Cage | Larry Kent | Alan Scarfe, Carly Pope, Scott Hylands | Family drama | |
Hardwood | Hubert Davis | Mel Davis (Harlem Globetrotters) | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject nomination |
Ill-Fated | Mark Lewis | Paul Campbell, Niki Clyne, John Callander, Peter Outerbridge | Drama | |
Land of the Dead | George A. Romero | John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Robert Joy | Horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
Lie with Me | Clement Virgo | Lauren Lee Smith, Eric Balfour, Polly Shannon, Kate Lynch | Romance | |
Life and Hard Times !The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | Michael Mabbott | Matt Murphy, Natalie Radford, Kris Kristofferson | Mockumentary | TIFF - Best Canadian First Feature |
Living on the Edge | Rodrigue Jean | Gérald Leblanc | Documentary | |
The Long Weekend | Pat Holden | Chris Klein, Brendan Fehr | Thriller | |
Looking for Angelina | Sergio Navarretta | Lina Giornofelice, Alvaro D’Antonio, Leslie Carlson | Crime drama | |
Lucid | Sean Garrity | Jonas Chernick, Lindy Booth, Callum Keith Rennie, Michelle Nolden | Drama | |
Maman Last Call | François Bouvier | Sophie Lorain, Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton | Comedy-drama | |
Maurice Richard (English title: The Rocket) | Charles Binamé | Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Philip Craig, Patrice Robitaille, Rémy Girard, Julie LeBreton | Biodrama about Montreal Canadiens star, Maurice Richard | |
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey | Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen & Jessica Wise | | Documentary | |
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Stuart Samuels | | Documentary | Direct to DVD |
Mohawk Girls | Tracey Deer | | National Film Board documentary | |
Murder Unveiled | Vic Sarin | Anita Majumdar | Drama | Made for TV; based on the true story of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu |
My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers | Anne Troake | Gary Troake | Documentary | A defense of the Canadian seal hunt |
La Neuvaine | Bernard Émond | Élise Guilbault, Patrick Drolet | Drama | Prix Jutra – Actress (Guilbault) |
Peacekeepers !The Peacekeepers | Paul Cowan | | National Film Board documentary | |
Rahul's Arranged Marriage | Anant Mathur | Devika Mathur, Anurag Mathur | Romance, Drama, Short | |
River King !The River King | Nick Willing | Edward Burns, Jennifer Ehle, Thomas Gibson, Rachelle Lefevre, Jon Kapelos | Crime drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
Sabah | Ruba Nadda | Arsinée Khanjian, Shawn Doyle, Jeff Seymour, David Alpay | Romance | |
Severed: Forest of the Dead | Carl Bessai | Paul Campbell, Sarah Lind, JR Bourne | Horror | |
Sidekick | Blake Van de Graaf | David Ingram | Thriller | |
These Girls | John Hazlett | David Boreanaz, Caroline Dhavernas | Satire | |
Thralls | Ron Oliver | Lorenzo Lamas, Leah Cairns, Crystal Lowe | Horror | |
Tideland | Terry Gilliam | Jodelle Ferland, Jeff Bridges, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly | Fantasy drama | Genie Award - Overall sound; Canada-U.K. co-production |
Tower Bawher | Theodore Ushev | | Animated short | |
La Vie avec mon père | Sébastien Rose | Raymond Bouchard, Paul Ahmarani, David La Haye, Hélène Florent | Comedy, drama | Canada-France co-production |
Water | Deepa Mehta | Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham | Romance, Drama | Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign-Language film; Canada-India co-production |
Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | Colin Firth, Kevin Bacon, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard | Drama based on the novel by Rupert Holmes | Genie Award – Adapted Screenplay; Canada-U.K. co-production |
White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice | Supernatural thriller | Canada-U.K. co-production |
Whole New Thing | Amnon Buchbinder | Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor | Drama | |
Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | | Documentary | Canada-U.K.-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
Year in the Death !A Year in the Death of Jack Richards | B. P. Paquette | Vlasta Vrána, Micheline Lanctôt | Drama | |
Zizek! | Astra Taylor | Slavoj Žižek | Documentary | Made with U.S. financing |