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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2008:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Adam's Wall | Michael MacKenzie | Jesse Aaron Dwyre, Flavia Bechara, Paul Ahmarani, Maxim Roy | Romantic drama | |
| Adoration | Atom Egoyan | Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman, Kenneth Welsh, Arsinée Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Aaron Poole | Drama | |
| After the Ballot (Chers électeurs) | Manuel Foglia | Charlotte L'Écuyer, Daniel Turp | National Film Board Documentary | |
| All That She Wants (Elle veut le chaos) | Denis Côté | Ève Duranceau, Nicolas Canuel, Laurent Lucas | Drama | |
| The American Trap (Le piège américain) | Charles Binamé | Rémy Girard, Gérard Darmon, Colm Feore, Serge Houde | Crime drama | |
| Babine | Luc Picard | Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Luc Picard, Julien Poulin, Alexis Martin, Isabel Richer | Fantasy, drama | Prix Jutra – Art Direction, Sound, Music, Costumes, Makeup |
| The Baby Formula | Alison Reid | Angela Vint, Megan Fahlenbock | Mockumentary | |
| Le Banquet | Sébastien Rose | Alexis Martin, Raymond Bouchard, Benoît McGinnis | Drama | |
| Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) | Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Madeline Ivalu | Madeline Ivalu, Paul-Dylan Ivalu | Inuit Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature |
| Behind Me (Derrière moi) | Rafaël Ouellet | Drama | ||
| Beyond the Walls (La Battue) | Guy Édoin | Short drama | ||
| Blindness | Fernando Meirelles | Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, Don McKellar | Drama | Based on the novel by José Saramago; a Canada-Brazil-Japan co-production |
| Block B | Chris Chong Chan Fui | Experimental short | Malaysian co-production | |
| Blonde and Blonder | Dean Hamilton | Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards | Comedy | |
| Borderline | Lyne Charlebois | Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Angèle Coutu | Drama | |
| A Broken Life | Neil Coombs | Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier | Drama | |
| The Broken Line (La ligne brisée) | Louis Choquette | David Boutin, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge | Drama | |
| Club Native | Tracey Deer | National Film Board Documentary | Winner of the Canada Award | |
| Confessions of a Porn Addict | Duncan Christie | Spencer Rice, Mark Breslin, Lindsey Connell | Faux documentary | |
| Coopers' Camera | Warren P. Sonoda | Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Peter Keleghan, Mike Beaver, Dave Foley | Comedy | |
| Cruising Bar 2 | Michel Côté & Robert Ménard | Michel Côté, Véronique Le Flaguais | Comedy | Genie Award – Outstanding Achievement in Makeup |
| Daddy Goes Ptarmigan Hunting (Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes) | Robert Morin | François Papineau | Drama | |
| Le déserteur | Simon Lavoie | Drama | ||
| DINX | Trevor Anderson | Farren Timoteo | Short comedy | |
| Down Here | Charles Wilkinson | Arlene, Bingo, Gerald, Jane, Johnny, Lianne, Lisa, Lorne, Maggie, Paul | Documentary short | Winner Cleveland Best Documentary Short, VIFF Most Popular Canadian Short Film, EIFF Best Short Documentary, Venice Ondo Courta, Houston Special Jury Award |
| Down to the Dirt | Justin Simms | Joel Thomas Hynes, Robert Joy, Mary Lewis, Hugh Dillon | Drama | |
| Everything Is Fine (Tout est parfait) | Yves-Christian Fournier | Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Normand D'Amour, Claude Legault | Drama | Claude Jutra Award; Prix Jutra – Supporting Actor (D’Amour) |
| Examined Life | Astra Taylor | Cornel West, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Explores contemporary philosophy |
| Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers, Rose McGowan | Political, crime drama based on the novel by Martin McGartland | Genie Award – Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction; Canada-U.K. co-production |
| FLicKeR | Nik Sheehan | Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Kenneth Anger | National Film Board Documentary | Based on the book Chapel of Extreme Experience by John G. Geiger |
| Forever Quebec (Infiniment Québec) | Jean-Claude Labrecque | Documentary | ||
| Ghosts and Gravel Roads | Mike Rollo | Short documentary | ||
| Gilles | Constant Mentzas | Hélène Loiselle, Réjean Lefrancois | Short drama | |
| Green Door | Semi Chellas | Don McKellar, Sabrina Grdevich, Tracy Wright, Matt Gordon, Joris Jarsky | Short comedy | |
| Gutterballs | Ryan Nicholson | Alastair Gamble, Jeremy Beland, Mihola Terzic | Horror | |
| Hank and Mike | Matthiew Klinck | Paolo Mancini, Thomas Michael, Joe Mantegna, Chris Klein | Comedy | |
| Heart of a Dragon | Michael French | Victor Webster, Jim Byrnes | Drama | |
| Heaven on Earth | Deepa Mehta | Preity Zinta, Geetika Sharma, Yanna McIntosh | Drama | |
| Honey, I'm in Love (Le Grand départ) | Claude Meunier | Marc Messier, Guylaine Tremblay, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc | Comedy-drama | |
| How She Move | Ian Iqbal Rashid | Rutina Wesley, Tre Armstrong, Dwain Murphy, Clé Bennett, Ardon Bess, Conrad Coates | Dance Drama | |
| It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) | Philippe Falardeau | Antoine L'Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Gabriel Maillé | Comedy | |
| Junior | Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault | Baie-Comeau Drakkar | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs |
| Martyrs | Pascal Laugier | Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï | Horror | |
| The Memories of Angels (La Mémoire des anges) | Luc Bourdon | Collage documentary | ||
| Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (Maman est chez le coiffeur) | Léa Pool | Céline Bonnier, Marianne Fortier, Élie Dupuis | Drama | Made for TV |
| Mothers & Daughters | Carl Bessai | Tantoo Cardinal, Gabrielle Rose, Babz Chula, Camille Sullivan, Tinsel Korey | Drama | |
| My Name Is Victor Gazon (Mon nom est Victor Gazon) | Patrick Gazé | Short drama | ||
| The Necktie | Jean-François Lévesque | National Film Board animated short | Jutra Award for best animation | |
| The Necessities of Life | Benoît Pilon | Natar Ungalaaq, Eveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur | Drama | |
| Next Floor | Denis Villeneuve | Short | Genie Award – Live-Action Short; Prix Jutra – Short; Cannes Film Festival – Canal+ Award | |
| A No-Hit No-Run Summer (Un été sans point ni coup sûr) | Francis Leclerc | Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacinthe Laguë, Roy Dupuis | Sports drama | |
| Nurse.Fighter.Boy | Charles Officer | Karen LeBlanc, Clark Johnson, Daniel J. Gordon | Drama | Genie Award – Song |
| One Week | Michael McGowan | Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, Gordon Downie, narrated by Campbell Scott | Drama | Genie Award - Actor (Jackson) |
| Otto; or Up with Dead People | Bruce LaBruce | Jey Crisfar, Marcel Schlutt | Horror | German-Canada co-production |
| Passage | John Walker | Rick Roberts | Documentary film | Partly based on the book Fatal Passage by Ken McGoogan |
| Passages | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | Animated short documentary | ||
| Passchendaele | Paul Gross | Paul Gross, Caroline Dhavernas, Gil Bellows, Joe Dinicol, Meredith Bailey | Romance, World War I drama | Golden Reel Award |
| Pontypool | Bruce McDonald | Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle | Horror, Thriller | Based on the Tony Burgess novel Pontypool Changes Everything, which is the name of the film sequel |
| Princess Margaret Blvd. | Kazik Radwanski | Short drama | ||
| Real Time | Randall Cole | Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel | Dramedy | |
| ReGOREgitated Sacrifice | Lucifer Valentine | A. Belle, The Black Angels of Hell, Honey | Horror | |
| RiP!: A Remix Manifesto | Brett Gaylor | Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Open source film about copyright law |
| A Sentimental Capitalism (Un capitalisme sentimental) | Olivier Asselin | Drama | ||
| Stone of Destiny | Charles Martin Smith | Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle, Billy Boyd | Drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Tiger Spirit | Min Sook Lee | Documentary | ||
| To Each Her Own | Heather Tobin | Hannah Hogan, Dre Carrington, Shaughnessy Redden | Drama | |
| Tomorrow (Demain) | Maxime Giroux | Eugénie Beaudry, Guillaume Beauregard, Serge Houde | Drama | |
| Under the Hood: A Voyage Into the World of Torture | Patricio Henríquez | Documentary | ||
| Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang | National Film Board Documentary | Genie Award for best documentary | |
| Waitresses Wanted (Serveuses demandées) | Guylaine Dionne | Clara Furey, Anne Dorval, Colm Feore | Drama | |
| Who Is KK Downey? | Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely | Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely, Matt Silver | Comedy |