MUBI UK/ROI's June roster includes the debut of Emma Seligman's
acclaimed comedy Shiva Baby, more weirdness from Greece, feminist documentaries, a selection for Pride
Month and more...
Shiva Baby
This June, MUBI will release Shiva Baby, a darkly playful comedy of chaos about a young bisexual woman grappling
with tradition and independence over the course of one climactic day-long
shiva. A highlight of 2020’s Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW,
and featuring a standout lead performance from emerging actor-comedian
Rachel Sennott, the acclaimed feature debut from writer-director
Emma Seligman is bold, modern filmmaking at its most daring,
hilarious, and unforgettable. Co-starring
Dianna Agron, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper and
Fred Melamed.
Lemebel
MUBI's Pride Month addition to the series Portrait of the Artist,
Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s Lemebel, winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at 2019 Berlinale,
depicts a pioneering figure in Latin America’s LGBTQ+ movement and a
tireless fighter who continued to speak out until the very end of his life.
His sharp-tongued, poetic texts and provocative performances made him one of
South America’s most important contemporary artists. In dictatorial Chile
under Pinochet, Lemebel expressed things that only few dared to say.
Sex, Truth, and Videotape: French Feminist Activism
This series will focus on trailblazing feminist documentaries by actress
Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, which used
the new medium of video to explore themes such as women’s rights and their
place in film, the issues faced by sex workers, and homosexuality during
liberation movements in 1970s France. The full selection includes
Delphine and Carole (2019),
Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1976),
Maso et Miso Go Boating (1975),
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (1975),
Just Don’t Fuck (1971),
S.C.U.M. Manifesto 1967 (1976), and
Le F.H.A.R (1971).
Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema
To celebrate Pride Month, MUBI presents a selection of films that portray
the multifaceted nature of LGBTQ+ cinema. The highlighted
Shiva Baby and Lemebel will be part of this
programming, as well as Kim So Yong’s Lovesong (2016),
Stephen Cone’s
Princess Cyd
(2017) Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015),
Clarisa Navas’s One in a Thousand (2020), Barbara
Hammer’s The Female Closet (1998), and more.
Munyurangabo
The debut film by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), Munyurangabo (2007) is a powerful and tender tale of a
friendship between two teenagers as they deal with the effects of the
Rwandan genocide. Quiet and authentic, the film also features a poem by Poet
Laureate Edouard Uwayo.
MUBI Spotlights
June’s exclusive showcase of exciting recent releases will include
Angela Schanelec’s I Was At Home, But…, Ben Hozie’s
PVT Chat
and Matt Wolf’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project.
I Was At Home, But… (2019), winner of the Silver Bear for
both Best Director and Best Leading Performance at the Berlinale, is an
elliptical, mysterious and entrancing drama that deals with themes of
grief and motherhood in a wholly original way.
PVT Chat (2020) will stream on MUBI weeks after its digital
release. An erotic drama about love and loneliness, it follows a man as he
becomes obsessed with a dominatrix met via video chat, played by
Uncut Gems
star Julia Fox.
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2020) documents the
vision and ideas of civil rights activist and TV commentator
Marion Stokes by looking at her lifelong project: an archive made
of hours of TV news footage, recorded over 30 years, that testifies how
media shapes history through the news.
Kala Azar
Named after an infectious canine disease, this post-apocalyptic yet tender
love story set in a pet crematorium takes the “Greek Weird Wave” further
with a feral reimagining of the lines between human and animal
existence.
Where To?
The First Lebanese film to ever show at Cannes,
Where To? gained worldwide recognition and ushered in a period
of emancipation for Lebanese cinema. Exploring exile and emigration through
the story of one family, this is an evocative journey full of ingenious
visual symbolism.
Correspondence
This filmed epistolary conversation between two acclaimed filmmakers blends
digital and Super 8 footage, new material and family home movies, to form a
reflection on family, history, motherhood, and current politics.
One in a Thousand
This coming-of-age drama set in a housing project in Argentina refreshingly
defies heteronormativity and queer stereotypes. Featuring a mostly
non-professional cast, One in a Thousand is intimate, sensual
and authentic.
Circumstantial Pleasures
A feature-length collection of six animated short films by
Lewis Klahr, combining collage animation with mid-century comic
books, pop art, and magazines to explore “the pastness of the
present.”
White on White
A striking, icy neo-western with impeccable mise en scène,
White on White is a hypnotic and sinister period piece,
capturing the darkness of patriarchy and colonial violence and shot during
the depths of winter in the tundra of Tierra del Fuego.
