Held at the city's Eden Court, the line-up includes 34 films from 21 countries.
Five of the features are UK premieres and 17 will get their Scottish premiere during the event, which runs from the 5-9 November.
Documentary, The Possibilities are Endless, follows Scots singer Edwyn Collins' recovery from a stroke in 2005 with the help of his wife Grace.
Collins will perform songs after the screening of the film.
Foreign films are a key feature of the festival.
This year's include Difret about a teenage girl in Ethiopia who is charged with murdering a 29 year old man after he abducts her.
Winter Sleep, set in a small hotel in central Anatolia, will be given its Scottish premiere at Eden Court.
Another feature that will be give its Scottish premiere in Inverness will be Fantail, a story about a white New Zealand woman who was raised as a Maori.
The foreign language offerings also include Firestorm.
Another is The Tribe.
Festival director Paul Taylor said: "The Tribe is my pick of the festival, it's a unique and original film from Ukraine without words or subtitles or translation and is the most exciting and powerful film that you will see all year.
"It's a true one of a kind, which after 120 years of cinema doesn't happen very often."
Drama on and under water appear in a number of the films to be shown, including Kon-Tiki which is about Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 bid to cross the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft.
Angel Azul tells of the creation of an artificial coral reef by artist Jason deCaires Taylor.
Also on an aquatic theme is Once in Your Lifetime.
It explores the idea that all keen anglers should try fishing on Scotland's lochs and rivers.

Cpl Reginald Robbins's name was on the roll of honour read out at the original unveiling ceremony for Andover's war memorial in 1920.
It it not known why it was never included on the actual memorial.
A service of rededication was held after his name was inscribed on the Portland stone monument.
Cpl Robbins was born in Sussex but moved to Andover with his father when he was in his teens, joining the Royal Engineers in 1917.
He saw service in France and Egypt before his death from Spanish flu in 1920 at the age of 25.
The disease claimed up to 50 million lives around the world during the pandemic which began in March 1918.
Leader of Test Valley Borough Council, Councillor Ian Carr, said the inscription, which followed research by local historian Craig Fisher, was a "poignant tribute".
"We may never know exactly why Reginald's name was not included on the memorial, but it is important that he is honoured and correctly remembered alongside the other local servicemen who gave their lives," he added.

The Old Bailey heard Daniel Green, of Walthamstow, attacked the woman in her 20s in the early hours of 16 May 2015 at StratX stockbrokers' offices near Monument.
The victim said she tried to get away but Green, 26, claimed it was consensual.
Green will be on the sexual offenders' register for an indefinite period.
The jury heard Green went back to the office with a group of people, including the victim, after the party where people were doing lines of cocaine, dancing on the tables and drinking champagne.
Most people went home after the mood soured over a stash of cocaine going missing.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was left in the office with Green, her friend and another employee.
The trial heard she went to sleep under a desk but woke to find Green tugging her trousers down.
She said: "At that point I remember just trying to crawl forward to get away. I knew what was going to happen. I remember being pulled back.
"The next thing I remember was Daniel raping me.
"He was making sexual noises, making me feel horrible, so I burst into tears."
Prosecutor Timothy Forster said Green had treated the woman like a "piece of meat".
In a victim impact statement read in court, the woman said: "I desperately want to forget about what happened, but I'm not able to and fear this is something which will continue to blight my life."
Sentencing, the judge said he was not punishing Green for "City culture of excessive drink and casual use of drugs when you go out socialising" but because he had shown no remorse and behaved with "a degree of arrogance" when giving evidence.
The programme for the 12th Inverness Film Festival has been announced.
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