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MUBI: new this week
The Loneliness of Lizards – 21 August
Film (2025). Inês Nunes’s first feature is a subtle Portuguese-Spanish co-production that introduces a promising new voice in European independent cinema.
Causing a Stir: Modern Provocations – 21 August
Spotlight collection. Every family has its black sheep – and so does cinema. To see these visions of excess and decay is to step into the funhouse mirror of modern life, swamped with twisted reflections of human nature.
Includes: Rosebush Pruning, Crimes Of The Future, Liberte, Attenberg, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dogtooth.
Athina Rachel Tsangari: A Double Bill – 21 August
Alongside Yorgos Lanthimos, Athina Rachel Tsangari is a defining member of the Greek New Wave. This double bill pairs her breakout masterpiece with a singular short: films whose off-beat style, dark humour, and shrewd visuals explore gender, power, and national identity in modern Greece.
Includes: Attenberg, The Capsule.
Rosebush Pruning – 21 August
Film (2026). Karim Aïnouz, the Brazilian-German filmmaker, brings his most radical work yet to MUBI. Rosebush Pruning, a European co-production filmed in four countries, opens a new chapter in his career. His films often focus on bodies under pressure, desire as a political battleground, and a willingness to confront what society tends to ignore.
Rosebush Pruning is visceral, formally daring, and filled with the dark wit that has set Aïnouz’s films apart from the beginning.
MUBI: recent highlights
The Assistant – 14 August
Film (2019). The film follows Jane, a recent college graduate and the youngest assistant at a major New York film production company, through a single workday. She arrives before dawn and leaves long after dark. During her day, she files papers, cleans the office, books flights, and manages the schedule of a boss who is never seen but whose presence is felt in every room and every conversation.
Australian director Kitty Green crafts a film that works through subtle details and suggestion. Julia Garner’s performance shows the strain of working in an environment built on complicity and pretending not to know.
Ancestral Visions of the Future – 14 August
Film (2025). Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese returns with his most ambitious work so far. The Lesotho filmmaker, known for the extraordinary This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, one of the most important African films of the last decade, has created a style that blends spiritual urgency with formal innovation. His films draw on oral tradition, shared memory, and the landscapes of southern Africa.
A Global Exclusive on MUBI.
Army of Shadows – 7 August
Film (1969). Jean-Pierre Melville’s film tells the story of a group of French Resistance fighters during the Occupation. Based on Joseph Kessel’s novel and filmed with Melville’s signature style, the movie is more about what it takes to survive and the price people pay than about war itself. Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret deliver powerful performances.
Jean-Pierre Melville Spotlight – 7 August
Spotlight collection. Masterpieces of crime from the French filmmaker who reinvented genre cinema for modern and modernist audiences. Emphasising ice-cool atmospherics, crisp cinematography, and outsider characters operating at the edge of the law, Melville’s cinema telescopes in on profound acts of rebellion – a body of work that influenced everyone from John Woo to Michael Mann.
Includes: Army of Shadows, Bob le Flambeur, Léon Morin, Priest, The Red Circle, Un Flic.
Godzilla: King of Monsters – 14 August
Spotlight collection. In 1954, a giant monster emerged from Tokyo Bay, launching the longest-running franchise in cinema history. From atomic-age fears to epic monster battles, these films capture the anxieties and spectacle of their respective eras. Seven decades of kaiju cinema, spanning Honda’s original classics to the millennium series.
Includes: Mothra vs. Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters!, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, The Return of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack.
