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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2013:
| 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 | |||
| Beasts in the Real World | Sol Friedman | Animated | [10] | ||
| 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 | [11] | |||
| Cas & Dylan | Jason Priestley | Richard Dreyfuss, Tatiana Maslany | Comedy | ||
| The Chaperone 3D | Fraser Munden, Neil Rathbone | Animated, documentary | [12] | ||
| 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 | [13] | |
| Cottage Country | Peter Wellington | Malin Åkerman, Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch | Comedy | ||
| Crazywater | Dennis Allen | Documentary | [14] | ||
| CRIME: Joe Loya - The Beirut Bandit | Alix Lambert, Sam Chou | [12] | |||
| Daybreak (Éclat du jour) | Ian Lagarde | Short drama | [10] | ||
| 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 | [12] | |
| 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 | [15] | |
| An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire) | Monia Chokri | Short drama | [12] | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | [16] | |
| 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 | [10] | ||
| 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 | [12] | |||
| In Guns We Trust | Nicolas Lévesque | [11] | |||
| It Was You Charlie | Emmanuel Shirinian | Michael D. Cohen, Emma Fleury, Aaron Abrams | Comedy-drama | ||
| Une jeune fille | Catherine Martin | Drama | |||
| Jimbo | Ryan Flowers | [11] | |||
| 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 | [17] | |
| 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 | [11] | |||
| A Mile End Tale (Conte du Mile End) | Jean-François Lesage | Documentary | [18] | ||
| 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 | [10] |
| Numbers & Friends | Alexander Carson | [12] | |||
| 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 | [10] | |
| 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 | [19] | |
| 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 | [11] | |||
| 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 | [19] |
| 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 | [20] | ||
| 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 | [12] | |||
| Sam's Formalwear | Yael Staav | Judah Katz, Kristina Nicoll, Sofie Uretsky | Short drama | [19] | |
| Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course) | Chloé Robichaud | Hélène Florent, Sophie Desmarais, Micheline Lanctôt | Drama | ||
| Seasick | Eva Cvijanovic | Animated | [10] | ||
| 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 | [19] | ||
| That Burning Feeling | Jason James | Paulo Costanzo, Ingrid Haas, Tyler Labine, John Cho | Comedy | [21] | |
| A Time Is a Terrible Thing to Waste | Leslie Supnet | Animated short | [19] | ||
| 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 | [11] | |||
| 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 | [22] | |
| Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky | Documentary | TFCA - Best Canadian Film; Best Feature Length Documentary - Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| We Wanted More | Stephen Dunn | [11] | |||
| 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 | [19] | |
| 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 | [10] |
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