Overwhelmed by the number of offerings at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival? Let our reviewers help you choose the films you shouldn't miss.

9 Muses of Star Empire

Al Helm: Martin Luther King Jr. in Palestine

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Film Tour

Autumn's Spring

Blind Detective

Borgman

Breaking Earth: Susumu Shingu Working With the Wind

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Burning Bush

The Closed Circuit

Code Black

Desert Runners

The Dick Knost Show

The Dirties

Dormant Beauty

Down River

Exit Elena

Fatal Assistance

A Field in England

Field of Amapolas

Fifi Howls From Happiness

Flashback Memories 3D 

The Future

The Gardener

Giselle

Gold

Good Vibrations

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Halley

Harmony Lessons

Heli

Hotell

Hue: A Matter of Colour

I Belong

Ilo Ilo

The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra

Kiss the Water

La jaula de oro

La maison de la radio

A Lady in Paris

Like Father, Like Son

Liv & Ingmar

Ludwig II

The Lunchbox

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 

Max Beckmann: Departure

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

A Mother’s Dream 

My Prairie Home

My Stolen Revolution

Nebraska

Objects of Desire

Oil Sands Karaoke

Open Field

Paradise: Hope

Particle Fever

La Paz

A Place in Heaven

A Place to Take Away

The Priest’s Children

Rap Is War

A River Changes Course

The Rocket

Salmon Confidential

Sarah Prefers to Run

See You Never

So Much Water

The Spider's Lair

The Spirit of '45

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

The Summer of Flying Fish

There Will Come a Day

Tito on Ice

Trap Street

Under the Rainbow

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear 

Vojta Lavička: Ups and Downs

We Are the Nobles

Le Week-End

Willow Creek

Wolf Children

Your Day is My Night