This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1971:
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Acadia, Acadia (L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?) Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault Documentary The Apprentice (Fleur bleue) Larry Kent Steve Fiset, Susan Sarandon, Céline Bernier Crime, drama Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family Morley Markson Documentary The Christmas Martian (Le Martien de Noël) Bernard Gosselin Marcel Sabourin, Catherine Leduc Children's film Later incorporated into the Tales for All series. The Crowd Inside Al Waxman Geneviève Robert, Alan Dean, Patricia Collins Drama Death of a Legend Bill Mason NFB documentary Evolution Michael Mills NFB animated short Academy Award nominee Face-Off George McCowan Trudy Young, Art Hindle, John Vernon Drama Fortune and Men's Eyes Harvey Hart Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman Drama Canadian Film Award – Supporting Actor (Freedman), Editing Foxy Lady Ivan Reitman Alan Gordon, Eugene Levy, Nicole MorinComedy, romance The Great Ordinary Movie (Le Grand Film ordinaire) Roger Frappier Raymond Cloutier, Paule Baillargeon, Claude Laroche Experimental feature Heads or Tails (Pile ou face) Roger Fournier Nathalie Naubert, Diane Arcand, Jean Coutu, Patricia Foster Comedy Hold on to Daddy's Ears (Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à papa) Jean Bissonnette Dominique Michel, Yvon Deschamps, Dabe Broadfoot Comedy Hot Stuff Zlatko Grgic NFB animated short How Death Came to Earth Ishu Patel NFB animated short I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy Ed Forsyth Ross Stephanson, Maureen McGill, Abdullah the Butcher Prison drama IXE-13 Jacques Godbout André Dubois, Louise Forestier, Serge Grenier, Marc Laurendeau Musical comedy Charles-Henri Ramond, "IXE-13 – Film de Jacques Godbout". Films du Québec, February 17, 2009. Madeleine Is... Sylvia Spring Nicola Lipman, John Juliani Drama First Canadian feature directed by a woman The Master Cats (Les chats bottés) Claude Fournier A Matter of Life (Question de vie) André Théberge Josée Beauregard, Frédérique Collin, Valda Dalton Drama The Megantic Outlaw Ron Kelly Gary McKeehan, Sydney Brown, Jane Mallett, Carole Lazare, Lloyd Bochner Drama The Men (Les Mâles) Gilles Carle Donald Pilon, René Blouin, Andrée Pelletier Comedy Mon oncle Antoine Claude Jutra Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Monique Mercure National Film Board drama AV Preservation Trust Masterwork My Eye (Mon œil) Jean Pierre Lefebvre Raôul Duguay Drama The Neon Palace Peter Rowe Judy Soroka, Sweet Daddy Siki Experimental feature Canadian Film Award – Special AwardThe New York Times MoviesNorth of Superior Graeme Ferguson Documentary First IMAX short made for Ontario Place, the first purpose-built IMAX theatre in the world. The Only Thing You Know Clarke Mackey Ann Knox, John Denos, Allan Royal Drama Canadian Film Awards – Actress (Knox), Special Award Les Philharmonistes Yves Leduc NFB documentary Propaganda Message Barrie Nelson NFB animated short The Proud Rider Walter Baczynsky Michael Bell, Scott Colomby, Art Hindle Drama Proxyhawks Jack Darcus Jack Darcus, Susan Spencer, Edward Hutchings Drama La Région Centrale Michael Snow Structural film The Reincarnate Don Haldane Jack Creley, Jay Reynolds, Trudy Young Horror Rip-Off Donald Shebib Don Scardino, Ralph Endersby, Michael Kukulewich Drama Sex in the Snow (Après-ski) Roger Cardinal Daniel Pilon, Céline Lomez Sex comedy Synchromy Norman McLaren NFB animated short This Is a Photograph Albert Kish Documentary Those Damned Savages (Les Maudits sauvages) Jean Pierre Lefebvre Drama Tiki Tiki Gerald Potterton Comedy Original animation intercut with recontextualized footage from the 1966 Russian live action film Aybolit-66. Water, Water Everywhere... (Heureux comme un poisson dans l'eau...) Gilles Blais Documentary We Are Far from the Sun (On est loin du soleil) Jacques Leduc Marthe Nadeau, J.-Léo Gagnon Docudrama A film about the life of Brother André
See also 1971 in Canada 1971 in Canadian television
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