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EUREKA | Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI

A chimeric wonder from director Lisandro Alonso, EUREKA slips through the boundaries of space and time. Beginning as a Viggo Mortensen-led western before morphing into something else entirely, this metaphysical meditation is mesmerizing, transcendental cinema.

The Black Worker

Expanded program notes from a series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with films by Mati Diop, Ousmane Sembène, Safi Faye, and many more.

CLOSE YOUR EYES | Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI

CLOSE YOUR EYES. An aging filmmaker revisits his unfinished and final film, where his close friend and lead actor mysteriously vanished in this new triumph from Víctor Erice. The Spanish master’s first feature in 31 years, this sublime meditation on cinema, memory, and the wheels of time played as an Official Selection at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

BIRD | Official Trailer #2 | Now Streaming

BIRD, a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and newcomer Nykiya Adams. Now streaming exclusively in North America, UK, Ireland and Turkey here. A MUBI Release.

The Bret Pack | Official Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI

Cynically hedonistic, the social scenes described by Literary Brat Pack prodigy Bret Easton Ellis from the 1980s to the 2010s still have much to tell us today. Stylish and unsparing, these films based on his novels or screenplays remain, eerily enough, zeitgeisty to the bone.

Double Fantasy

The fabricated celebrities of “Trap” and “The Idea of You” are the latest in a long line of songster simulacra.

Video Essay: “Crossing Thresholds”

In the films of Levan Akin, space often mirrors his protagonists’ states of mind. Journeying between Istanbul and Tbilisi, this exclusive video essay examines the psychological influence of a place on his characters' interior lives.

SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING | Official Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI

SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING. Fatalistic daydreams uncannily invade the monotony of office life in Rachel Lambert’s darkly comic drama, starring a revelatory Daisy Ridley. Tempering surreal reveries with down-to-earth feelings, this idiosyncratic character portrait finds love—and the will to live—in the most unlikely of places.

MONSTER | Official Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI

MONSTER. Winner of the Queer Palm and Best Screenplay at Cannes, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s intricately structured drama delves into the fragility of boyhood, and also features the exquisite final score from the late maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto.