Canada’s coproductions make waves around the world, with theatrical success, festival awards, and rave reviews from international media. As 2021 winds down, here’s your exclusive roundup of some of the year’s Canadian coproduction successes!
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This Canada-Bosnia and Herzegovina coproduction was Bosnia and Herzegovina’s submission for the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards. Set after the war in Sarajevo (where the Bosnian-Canadian director was born), this thrilling feature tells the story of two troubled teenagers who fall in love – one from an affluent and powerful family, and one who dabbles in petty crime, both seeking freedom.
The project was awarded Eurimages funding in 2019. After premiering at the 71st Berlinale the feature dazzled the international festival circuit, from Shanghai to Sarajevo, Montenegro, the Atlantic Film Festival, and so much more.
Currently in movie theatres throughout Quebec, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, this France-Canada coproduction was selected for the Cannes Film Festival (out of competition), and was the closing night film of Festival Cinémania, where it made its North American premiere.
Valérie Lemercier stars, directs, and co-wrote the screenplay (with Brigitte Buc) for this feature – a fictionalized portrayal of the life of the iconic French-Canadian singer Céline Dion, who hails from Charlamagne, Quebec.
Starring Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Amanda Plummer, and Alex Tarrant, this Canada-New Zealand coproduction takes place in a sci-fi future, where a mother must rescue her daughter from the state. Now playing in movie theatres across the United States (with distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films), the film has been critically acclaimed by major international publications, including the New York Times.
This debut feature from Cree-Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet, an award-winning filmmaker from Saskatchewan, had its world premiere at the 71st Berlinale, before heading to the Toronto International Film Festival (where Goulet won the Emerging Talent Award), and the Festival du nouveau cinéma, earning the Grand Prix Focus.
Set in Montreal and Beirut, this France-Lebanon-Canada coproduction competed at the 71st Berlinale, where it made its world premiere!
Renowned worldwide for their films, artworks, and writings, award-winning Lebanese artistic collaborators Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are behind this epic tale. Through a box of mementos, a teenager unravels her mother’s youth and memories growing up in Lebanon in the 1980s, amidst civil war, and spans three generations of women in the family.
Keira Knightley and Marion Cotillard are just a couple of the stars who voiced this animated feature; a Canada-France-Belgium coproduction. Taking place during WWII, the story is based on paintings by Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who was a refugee.
After being awarded Eurimages funding in 2017, the film premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to earn the M/A/D Audience Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza head up a star-studded cast for this U.K.-Canada coproduction, which made its world premiere at the 71st Berlinale.
In this feature directorial debut by Canadian actor, writer, and director Lina Roessler, a young publisher, eager to save the publishing house that is her father’s legacy, drags a reclusive author on a book tour. Look for this movie in theatres; according to Variety, the film scored a distribution deal with Universal Pictures Content Group!
