SIFF reveals first six titles to screen at the 2026 Seattle International Film Festival
3/26/2026
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Today SIFF shared the first six titles scheduled to screen at the Festival, including: Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex; Sundance Award Winning documentary Nuisance Bear; Gaua, an epic historical fantasy drama; the Hong Kong action legend-packed Sons of the Neon Night; Goya Award-winning standout Sundays; and Franz, a playful film about Franz Kafka and his work. The full lineup of films for the festival will be announced on siff.net on April 15.
Media accreditation for the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival is now open. Press inquiries, appointments, and interview requests can be made at press@siff.net. Information about how to preview these films and schedule interviews will be provided to accredited press in the coming weeks.
Franz: How do you make sense of Franz Kafka? With fictional interviews with Kafka’s friends and family and thrilling plunges into his fiction, Franz does not explain, but playfully and inventively explores the man and his work. (d: Agnieszka Holland c: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Czech Republic/Poland/Germany/France/Turkey 2025, 127 min)
Gaua: North American Premiere - Fleeing her husband, Kattalin encounters three old women exchanging idle gossip that soon transmutes into sinister supernatural stories. As each tale is told, Kattalin finds herself becoming intimately entangled within their dark events. (d: Paul Urkijo c: Yune Nogueiras, Ane Gabarain, Elena Irureta, Iñake Irastorza, Xabi "Jabato" Lopez, Spain 2025, 96 min)
I Want Your Sex: When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. (d: Gregg Araki c: Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Charli XCX, USA 2026, 90 min)
Nuisance Bear: A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape. (d: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman USA/Canada/United Kingdom 2026, 90 min)
Sons of the Neon Night: An elite cast of Hong Kong action legends assemble for this sprawling, mega-budget thriller that hearkens back to the wildly ambitious, hyper-stylized crime cinema that put Hong Kong filmmaking on the international map. (d: Juno Mak c: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sean Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Gao Yuan Yuan, Hong Kong/China 2025, 124 min)