Paul Giamatti, left, and Dustin Hoffman in a scene from Barney's Version, the film version of the Mordecai Richler novel coming to the Vancouver International Film Festival. (TIFF)

The Vancouver International Film Festival has released its showcase of Canadian film, including 30 titles made in British Columbia.

VIFF opens Sept. 30 with Barney's Version, the film based on the Mordecai Richler novel of the same name about a lovable curmudgeon played by Paul Giamatti.

Score: A Hockey Musical also gets the gala treatment along with Fathers & Sons, a comedy about four grown men and their dads from Carl Bessai.

Vancouver director Bessai is also showing his film Repeaters, a gritty thriller about three people caught in a trap that forces them to repeat the same day over and over again.

Other B.C. films include:

• Amazon Falls: A first feature by Katrin Bowen about the underbelly of life in Los Angeles.
• Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido: directed by Silvio Pollio about an Italian gangster.
• Mammalian: Frank Wolf's documentary about a 2,000 KM Arctic canoe journey.
• Leave Them Laughing: John Zaritsky's documentary about how a Canadian comic faces her own death.

VIFF has 87 Canadian films in its lineup, including high-profile works such as Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats, Louis Belanger's Route 132 and Sturla Gunnarsson's film about environmental activist David Suzuki, Force of Nature.

The biggest prize at VIFF is the $20,000 award for best Canadian feature film, chosen by a jury.

VIFF previously announced its Dragons and Tigers program focusing on the cinema of East Asia.

That lineup includes:

• Aftershock, by Feng Xiaogang, the highest-grossing film in China's history.
• 13 Assassins, by Miike Takeshi of Japan.
• Mundane History, by Anocha Suwichakompong of Thailand.
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives by Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul of Thailand, the winner of the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes festival.

VIFF runs Sept. 30 to Oct. 15.