What’s Coming to MUBI Canada (May 2025)

What’s streaming on MUBI
May 2025

CHARLI XCX: ALONE TOGETHER

Charli XCX: Alone Together (Documentary, Music) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler, 2021
Seeking solace in music during the COVID-19 pandemic, global pop star Charli XCX asks her fans to help her make an album while quarantined at home. Embarking on a creative and emotional journey, she faces mental health issues, rekindles her relationship with her boyfriend and connects with her fans. The film was an Official Selection at Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival and 2021 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

ANTICHRIST

Antichrist (Avant-Garde, Drama, Horror) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI starting May 31
Dir. Lars von Trier, 2009
Grieving for the loss of their infant son, a couple attempt to repair their troubled marriage by retreating to the solace of Eden, their remote woodland cabin. But when they arrive, nature itself turns against the couple. As they descend into madness, a violent battle of the sexes emerges. Antichrist was written and directed by Lars von Trier and stars Willem Dafoe (Poor Things, The Lighthouse) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (Jane Eyre, Melancholia). The film had its premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2009, where Gainsbourg won Best Actress, and also played at Toronto International Film Festival in the same year.

THE CODE

The Code (Comedy) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI starting May 16
Dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko, 2024
Early-pandemic, Jay and Celine head to a rental house to reconnect. While Celine films a documentary on their disintegrating relationship, a recently ‘cancelled’ Jay becomes increasingly paranoid about his portrayal, setting up hidden cameras to spy on Celine. The Code uses footage from over 70 cameras, and stars Dasha Nekrasova (Succession, The Beast) and Peter Vack (The Sweet East, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed). The film premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal in 2024.

SPREE

Spree (Comedy, Thriller) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko, 2020
Kurt Kunkle, a rideshare driver thirsty for followers, has figured out a deadly plan to go viral. As his disturbing livestream is absurdly embraced by the social media hellscape, a stand-up comedian emerges as the only hope to stop this rampage. Spree premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and stars Joe Keery (Stranger Things, Fargo) and Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live, Agatha All Along).

SASQUATCH SUNSET

Sasquatch Sunset (Comedy) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI starting May 30
Dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, 2024
In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. Sasquatch Sunset stars Riley Keough (Zola, American Honey) and Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain, The Social Network) and had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2024.

THE SOUVENIR: A JOANNA HOGG DIPTYCH

Named after a Jean-Honoré Fragonard painting currently hung at the Wallace Collection in London, The Souvenir and The Souvenir: Part II are delicate tableaux of a young artist grappling with a tortured lover while coming into her own voice find the profound in the domestic: an overcoat or a French brass bed–Hogg’s own–can ache with passions as well as heartbreak. Such emotional and stylistic precision, along with a blend of the theatrical and the autobiographical, bring an uncanny intimacy to Hogg’s depiction of British upper class milieu and the toils of film school.

The Souvenir (Drama, Mystery) – Streaming Now
Dir. Joanna Hogg, 2019
British master Joanna Hogg delves into her own memories for this staggering work of heartbreaking intimacy. At once an alluring and shattering study in privilege, artistic creation, and first love, The Souvenir features revelatory performances by Honor Swinton Byrne (A Very Royal Scandal, The Crown), Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Grand Budapest Hotel), and Tom Burke (War & Peace, Black Bag).

The Souvenir: Part II (Drama) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. Joanna Hogg, 2021
In the aftermath of her relationship with a manipulative older man, film student Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction, while also pushing against the constraints of the London independent film scene. Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton reprise their roles from the first film, the film also stars Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness, Babygirl), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things, The New Mutants) , and Joe Alwyn (Kinds of Kindness, Conversations With Friends). The Souvenir: Part II had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 in the Directors Fortnight.

LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA AT CANNES

Established in 1946, Cannes Film Festival has welcomed filmmakers and film lovers around the globe for decades to celebrate cinema. Historically known for championing internationally renowned filmmakers, MUBI presents a collection of films highlighting Latin American filmmakers featuring Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman, a psychological exploration of an unfaithful wife in a spiraling the grip of reality into a ghostly allegory; Melina Leon’s Song Without a Name featuring an original guitar score harmonizing the dramatic aura of a working-class girl traveling to infiltrate a gang to find her sister; and many more!

XXY (Drama, LGBTQ+) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. Lucía Puenzo, 2007
The difficulties of adolescence are particularly strong for the 15-year-old Alex, who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house, with their 16-year-old son in tow…

Heli (Drama, Crime, Romance) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. Amat Escalante, 2013
Estela is a 12-year-old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet in rural Mexico. He wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, Estela’s family will have to face the vicious circle of drugs and violence that is devastating the region.

Land and Shade (Drama) – Streaming on May 1
Dir. César Augusto Acevedo, 2015
A blank-faced protagonist is propelled into a fantasy world of asparagus, where she fondles, excretes, and flushes away the vegetables. She heads into a city at night, arriving at a theatre of optical illusions, where she opens her handbag to release rare wonders in front of a claymation audience

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