Best new films – quick links
Best new films: this week
David Cronenberg – 19 June (MUBI)
Spotlight collection. A descent into the unsettling cinematic universe of David Cronenberg, where flesh, technology, and psychology collide in visions of transformation and bodily unease. Across horror, satire, and speculative fiction, Cronenberg’s work persistently interrogates the unstable boundaries of the human body and mind.
Includes Crash, The Shrouds, Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection.
Your Fault: London – 17 June (Prime Video)
Film (2025). Noah and Nick return – stronger, closer, and more in love than ever. But as life begins to pull them in different directions, their relationship faces its toughest challenge yet. Noah heads to Oxford to pursue her studies, while Nick finds himself consumed by the growing demands of work. When new people enter their lives, stirring unexpected emotions and lingering jealousy, cracks begin to form.
Starring Asha Banks, Matthew Broome and Eve Macklin.
God Is Shy – 19 June (MUBI)
Film (2025). Jocelyn Charles’ poised and formally inventive debut short film, God Is Shy, opens with an apparently innocent game in which two young passengers sketch their fears during a train journey. However, the dynamic shifts when a mysterious woman intervenes, transforming the encounter into increasingly unsettling, ambiguous territory.
By blending animation with psychological horror, the film transitions seamlessly between ordinary reality and the uncanny. It employs distorted perspectives, shifting textures, and expressive sound design to externalise emotional unease. Both humorous and unsettling, God Is Shy exhibits a notable mastery of tone and atmosphere within its concise runtime.
Voicemails For Isabelle – 19 June (Netflix)
Film (2026). A young woman’s hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
Starring Zoey Deutch, Nick Robinson, Nick Offerman and Lukas Gage.
Refugee Week Collection – 15 June (SBS On Demand)
SBS On Demand celebrates stories of hope and resilience to mark World Refugee Week.
To A Land Unknown – Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash, Chatila hatches an extreme escape plan to pose as smugglers.
Baghdad Messi – Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Luke the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona–Manchester United. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down …
Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
Freemont – Formerly a translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, Donya rebuilds her life in San Francisco. She works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory and decides to send out a special message in one of the cookies.
Best new films: recently added
Sirāt – 12 June (MUBI)
Film (2025). Oliver Laxe’s Sirât presents a hypnotic and immersive narrative set in the deserts of North Africa, chronicling a father and son’s search for their missing daughter following her disappearance at an underground rave in Morocco. As the protagonists move from one remote gathering to the next, their quest evolves into an exploration of spiritual, existential, and ultimately unknowable dimensions.
From ScreenHub’s five-star review:
Sirât, the immaculately staged near-apocalypse from Oscar-nominated French-Galician filmmaker Óliver Laxe, has no interest in easing you in. Or out.
Instead, as the film opens, we’re thrust headlong into a juddering blast of bone-crunching bass that annihilates our senses. A fortress-like barricade of towering speakers is arrayed at the foot of a cliff, somewhere in the southern Morrocco end of the Sahara. A light show dances on this foreboding canvas as a drugged-up throng surrender themselves to the beat. Read more …
Hot to the Touch: Female Desire on Screen – 12 June (MUBI)
Spotlight collection. This collection foregrounds women reclaiming desire, intimacy, and agency on screen—challenging decades of objectifying cinematic conventions. From tender romances to boundary-pushing dramas, these films explore sexuality through female subjectivity, emotional complexity, and unapologetic passion.
Includes The Handmaiden, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – 14 June (Prime Video)
Film (2026). Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Cillian Murphy.
ScreenHub: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review: beguilingly wild and tender
