The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is gearing up for its 10-day run starting May 7. While the fest will not pull back the curtain on the full program until April 15, SIFF is dropping a six-pack of titles to anchor the festival’s early lineup before the full slate bows next month.

This initial drop of six titles comes one week after SIFF announced its opening film, “I Love Boosters” and serves up a cross-section of arthouse cinema, slick genre exercises, and festival circuit favorites. From erotic comedies to heavy-hitting festival darlings, here is a look at the first six titles hitting the SIFF circuit this spring.

The SIFF First Look Lineup

I Want Your Sex (USA): Queer cinema icon Gregg Araki returns with a buzzy erotic comedy. Cooper Hoffman stars as fresh-faced Elliot, who lands a gig working for Olivia Wilde’s Erika Tracy, a renowned artist and provocateur who quickly drafts him into service as her sexual muse.

Franz (Czech Republic/Poland/Germany/France/Turkey): Industry vet Agnieszka Holland dives into the enigma of Franz Kafka. Using playful fictional interviews and plunges into his prose, the film explores the literary giant rather than just dryly explaining him.

Gaua (Spain): Marking its North American Premiere, Paul Urkijo’s Basque-language folk horror follows a woman fleeing her husband. When she meets three old women exchanging gossip, the idle chatter turns into sinister supernatural tales that she cannot escape.

Nuisance Bear (USA/Canada/United Kingdom): This nature doc from Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman tracks a polar bear navigating a landscape of tourists and hunters, questioning who the real intruder is when a sacred predator is branded a nuisance.

Sons of the Neon Night (Hong Kong/China): Multi-hyphenate Juno Mak directs a sprawling, mega-budget crime thriller featuring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Ka Fai. 

Sundays (Spain): Alauda Ruiz de Azúa directs this Goya Award winner about Ainara, a 17 year old weighing whether to take holy vows.