MUBI opens the new year with two of the most talked about European films of
2020 - Roy Andersson's
About Endlessness
and Václav Marhoul's
The Painted Bird, along with the UK premiere of festival hit Ham on Rye and
much more.
MUBI Spotlight: About Endlessness
With two of his masterpieces already showing on MUBI, in January MUBI
presents Roy Andersson’s new film About Endlessness, which will kick off their programme for the new year. This visionary
reflection on life’s cruelty and beauty, which won Andersson the award for
Best Director in Venice, will be streaming exclusively from January
1st.
MUBI Spotlight: The Painted Bird
After a successful festival run and a limited cinema release, MUBI brings
Václav Marhoul’s extraordinary wartime drama to subscribers, streaming
exclusively from January 8th. Powerful, harrowing, and visually stunning,
The Painted Bird charts the story of a young Jewish boy
seeking refuge in the Polish woods, finding himself face to face with
unspeakable evil.
First Films First
In 2021, MUBI continues their New Year’s tradition and renewing their
annual engagement with 'First Films First', a special look at acclaimed
filmmakers’ first features, starting off the year with the films that
marked the start of their careers. This year, they’ll be showing
Lina Wertmüller’s The Basilisks in a brand new restoration, Whit Stillman’s
Metropolitan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Small Town, Angela Schanelec’s My Sister's Good Fortune, Denis Villeneuve’s August 32nd on Earth, Mia Hansen-Løve’s All is Forgiven, Steve McQueen’s Hunger, and Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher.
MUBI Exclusive: Citadel
MUBI presents the world premiere of English artist filmmaker
John Smith’s Citadel: a short film made during lockdown, combining images of London’s skyline
with extracts from Boris Johnson’s speeches, using the city’s architecture
to comment on the opposition between economic interests and individual
experiences.
My French Film Festival
This year, MUBI continues their partnership with My French Film Festival
to bring you three films of their 2021 selection:
Sophie Letourneur’s Enormous, an insightful and irreverent comedy about the relationship between
motherhood and womanhood; Aude Léa Rapin’s
Heroes Don't Die, an eccentric mockumentary-drama starring Adèle Haenel; and
Aurel’s Josep, a beautifully animated feature about the life of the artist Josep
Bartoli.
Viewfinders: Ham on Rye
A dreamy piece of American Indie, Ham on Rye debuted to
great acclaim at last year’s Locarno Film Festival. Following a group of
girls at the end of high school, it puts a stylish and subversive spin on
the coming-of-age genre.
Rediscovered: About Some Meaningless Events
Mostafa Derkaoui’s pioneering film
About Some Meaningless Events was shot in the ‘70s and
banned by Moroccan authorities, this incredible document of its time and
poignant reflection on national cinema was lost for decades until a
negative was recently found, allowing for a full restoration.
