CIFF just released its full listings and schedule, but with over 200 films screening this year, it’s hard to figure out where to begin. But, as always, we’re here to help; here are a few to watch out for.

As was expected, there is plenty Canadian and plenty of awesome here. Fubar 2 — which will premiere in a week’s time at TIFF — has the hoser-iffic duo of Terry and Dean pushing their luck in Fort McMurray (and has Terry dating a prominent local: A stripper). Then, there’s BC native’s Mike Goldblach’s feature debut, Daydream Nation, that places a wry, displaced city teen in a sleepy, perpetually-stoned small town with a rampant serial killer. Elsewhere, I Heart Doomsday, recipient of the Royal Reel Award at the Canada Film Festival, is a sci-fi romance; it features a mad scientist building a robot to rekindle a lost love. Wolf brains are involved, too, or so we’re told.

And there’s plenty of American independent showings, too. Lovers of Hate, fresh off its stint at Sundance and SXSW, is a black comedy that has two estranged, jealous writer-siblings battling over a common love interest; savagery ensues. Matt Osterman’s Phasma Ex Machina walks the supernatural-human line, with its protagonist developing a machine meant to channel the netherworlds. The Myth of The American Sleepover could play out like America’s answer to Skins — set in suburban Detroit, it intertwines  the libidinous tales of four (seemingly average) high-school kids on the last night of summer.

Internationally, Valhalla Rising — a Danish production — might have a vaguely white supremacist-sounding title, but it details a Norse warrior and a troupe of Vikings making its way to North America. As Fast Forward Weekly's John Tebbutt noted several weeks ago, there’s plenty of Korean movies waking waves, and A Brand New Life is yet another addition to its ever-growing canon. Following the experiences of director Ounie Lecomte, it documents the life of an orphan in Seoul pining for her father’s return. And then there’s the NFB’s Grace, Milly and Lucy, a Canadian-Ugandan doc exposing the grueling life of three female child soldiers and their readjustment into a life without war.

Then there’s the documentaries. Look out for the Israeli A Film Unfinished, a found-footage doc depicting the horror of Jews in a 1942 Warsaw ghetto; Living Room of the Nation deconstructs Finnish life via the lens of six different living rooms; and French-British-American production Sweetgrass follows the last cowboys through Montana’s mountains.

And music — what about it? There’s Wes Orshoski’s Lemmy; need we say more? Then there’s Le Tigre: On Tour, which might be the closest Calgary will get to Kathleen Hanna (at least for a while). But perhaps the most noteworthy is Celine Dahnier’s Blank City, a doc highlighting New York’s punk, no wave and underground film scene during the ever-volatile decade between 1977 and 1987.

Then there’s the horror. If REC 2, the sequel to celebrated Spanish Handycam horror flick REC and its American adaptation, Quarantine, is half as terrifying as the original, it’ll be a force. Plague-infected zombies? Confined spaces? Point-of-view bludgeonings? Um, hell yes.

Of course, this is only scratching the surface. Head over to CIFF’s website or follow its Facebook page for more.