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.
The programme for the 12th Inverness Film Festival has been announced.