Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters opens 2026 Seattle International Film Festival today. The festival will be in session until the May 17 Closing Night screening of Olivia Wilde’s The Invite. Other highlights of their extensive lineup are:
SILENT FRIEND, Ildikó Enyedi
IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, Walter Thompson-Hernández
OBSESSION, Curry Barker
I WANT YOUR SEX, Gregg Araki
POWER BALLAD, John Carney
CASE 137, Dominik Moll
MASPALOMAS, Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi
SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU, Jay Duplass
RENOIR, Chie Hayakawa
AMRUM, Fatih Akin
FRANZ, Agnieszka Holland
SUNDAYS, Alauda Ruiz De Azúa
THREE GOODBYES, Isabel Coixet
LATE FAME, Kent Jones
STRANGE RIVER, Jaume Claret Muxart
THE FURIOUS, Kenji Tanigaki
GAUA, Paul Urkijo Alijo
MĀRAMA, Taratoa Stappard
LUCKY LU, Lloyd Lee Choi
MURDER IN THE BUILDING, Rémi Bezançon
SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT, Juno Mak
SALVATION, Emin Alper
IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS, Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás
ANOTHER WORLD, Tommy Ng
PROMISED SKY, Erige Sehiri
BURN, Makoto Nagahisa
HEN, György Pálfi
CAMP, Avalon Fast
AMERICAN DOCTOR, Poh Si Teng
DRUNKEN NOODLES, Lucio Castro
PRIMAVERA, Damiano Michieletto
JARIPEO, Rebecca Zweig, Efraín Mojica
NUISANCE BEAR, Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman
BROKEN ENGLISH, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
THE FRIEND’S HOUSE IS HERE, Maryam Ataei, Hossein Keshavarz
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, David Kittredge
APRIL X, K-Michel Parandi
HOLD ONTO ME, Myrisini Aristidou
BARBARA FOREVER, Brydie O’Connor
BALANDRAU: WHERE THE FIERCE WIND BLEW, Fernando Trullols
CHILI FINGER, Edd Benda, Stephen Helstad
COOKIE QUEENS, Alysa Nahmias
LADY, Samuel Abrahams
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sarah Goher
HOT WATER, Ramzi Bashour
THE BEST SUMMER, Tamra Davis
THE SONGBIRD’S SECRET, Antoine Lanciaux
IVÁN & HADOUM, Ian de la Rosa
TRIAL OF HEIN, Kai Stänicke
100 SUNSET, Kunsang Kyirong
The full lineup on Letterboxd:
https://letterboxd.com/filmfestival/list/2026-seattle-international-film-festival/
You can purchase tickets to their screenings on https://www.siff.net/festival .
