Ten Canadian films have been selected to compete in the 28th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Among those competing in the Independent Features category is My Awkward Sexual Adventure, Sean Garrity’s film about a man that seeks to reconquer his girlfriend with the help of an uninhibited stripper. Another is Old Stock,  from director James Genn about a man who has been living in a retirement home but must face the small town and checkered past he has been avoiding. Rounding out the category is Sex after Kids, a comedy from Jeremy LaLonde about how parenthood changes your sex life, which will also have its world premiere in Santa Barbara.

Meanwhile, in the International Feature competitive category, Canada is represented by Boucherin Halal. The film by Babek Aliassa tells the story of a Muslim man that opens a butcher shop in Montreal, only to have his life drastically altered when his fundamentalist father is arrested by the RCMP.

Najeeb Mirza’s Buzkashi!, a film about a shepherd and buzkashi champion facing a changing Tajuskistan, is the sole Canadian film competing in the Documentary Features category.

However, in the Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice category, Canada counts with four representatives Michael Oved Dayan’s High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau, Corey Ogilvie’s Occupy: The Movie, Rob Stewart’s Revolution, and Nisha Pahuja’s The World Before Her.

Yellow Sticky Notes|Canadian Anijam from Jeff Chiba Stearns will have its world premiere in California as it competes in the Animated Shorts category.

And  screening out of competition at the festival are Laura Archibald’s Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation, James Cullingham’s In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways and David Cherniak’s Retreat,

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will run from  Jan. 24 to  Feb. 3 in Santa Barbara, California.