Vancouver-based filmmaker Trish Neufeld’s documentary Dancing with Mom will have its world premiere at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).

The doc (pictured) is directed, written and produced by Neufeld alongside producer John Ritchie, who serves as the executive producer, and coproducer Step Carruthers. Dancing with Mom follows Neufeld as she tries to help her mother with her dementia while solving a family mystery. The film is produced in association with B.C. public broadcaster Knowledge Network.

SBIFF’s 38th edition will run from Feb. 8 to 18 with 30 world premiere films, 53 U.S. premiere films, 22 world premiere short films and 25 U.S. premiere short films, according to a news release.

Homegrown comedy-drama feature I Like Movies, directed by Chandler Levack and produced by Lindsay Blair Goeldner, is set to have its U.S. premiere as the closing night presentation at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Four other Canadian features will also have their U.S. premiere at the festival, including Bones of Crows, written and directed by Marie Clements, who also produced the film under her B.C.-based Ayasew Ooskana Pictures alongside Vancouver’s Screen Siren Pictures and Grana Productions; and Katherine Jerkovic’s Coyote (Le coyote), produced by Montreal’s 1976 Productions’ Nicolas Comeau.

The other two are Stellar (Ananghoonska), written, directed and produced by Darlene Naponse alongside producers Jennifer Weiss and Paula Devonshire; and Sheila Pye’s The Young Arsonists, produced by Toronto’s Borrowed Light Films’ Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo and Hawkeye Pictures’ Sonya Di Rienzo and Aeschylus Poulos.

As for the short films lineup, Kalainithan Kalaichelvan’s Junglefowl, produced by Black Caper Films and Next Productions, is set to have its world premiere. Fitch Jean’s More Than Hair (Plus que des cheveux), which has already premiered on the Canadian festival circuit and is produced by Amir Zargara, will also screen.

Meanwhile, five other Canadian shorts will have their U.S. debut, including Emilie Mannering’s À la vie à l’amor, produced by Léonie Hurtubise of Montreal’s Colonelle films; Salomé Villeneuve’s III, produced by Catherine Boily and Rosalie Chicoine Perreault of Montreal’s Metafilms; Oskar, directed by Max Vannienschoot and produced by Elodie Pollet and Camille Lequenne of Montreal-based Films Extérieur Jour; See You In My Dreams (Rencontres nocturnes silencieuses), written, directed and produced by Ariane Louis-Seize; and The Tadpole Trilogy (La trilogie des têtards), written and directed by Léonard Giovenazzo and produced by Quebec-based Les Rapailleurs.

Other homegrown features included in the festival lineup are Category: Woman, directed and written by Phyllis Ellis, who also produced the documentary with Howard Fraiberg; Joachim Back’s Corner Office, produced by Vancouver’s Tilt9 Entertainment and U.S.-based Anonymous Content, in association with L.A.-based Space Pilot Media; and Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking, produced by micro_scope’s Luc Déry and Kim McCraw.

Image of Trish Neufeld and her mom, Pat, courtesy of SBIFF