What’s streaming on MUBI June 2024
A PLACE OF OUR OWN: QUEER SPACES ON FILM
From romantic comedies to boldly experimental shorts, movie lovers can dive into MUBI’s electric offering of LGBTQ+ cinema this Pride season and year-round. Beginning June 1, MUBI will launch A PLACE OF OUR OWN: QUEER SPACES ON FILM a new collection, featuring a blend of iconic queer films and lesser-known LGBTQ+ films, showcasing the vibrant representation of queer cultures in social spaces where diverse queer identities have flourished.
The Last Year of Darkness (Documentary) – Now streaming exclusively on MUBI
Dir. Benjamin Mullinkosson, 2023 MUBI Release*
Attuned to the energy of nightlife in the Sichuan capital, Benjamin Mullinkosson’s immersive documentary pulsates to the euphoric beats of electronic music. A love letter to the city’s charismatic nonconformists and the fabled club that provides a queer haven amid an ever-changing urban landscape.
Maurice’s Bar (Animation, Short ) – Streaming June 1
Dir. Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery, 2023
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner. Maurice’s Bar won the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2023.
Casa Roshell (Documentary) – Streaming June 1
Dir. Camila José Donoso, 2017
Music plays, drinks are served and the last boundaries are suspended: those between gender; gay, straight and bi; reality and fiction. Roshell and Lili run a small transformist club in Mexico City, where men of all ages and backgrounds come to watch, cruise or learn how to dress in drag.
MUBI’s extensive year-round selection of queer films includes notable releases such as Ira Sachs’ Passages and Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom. Additionally, Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, Zaida Carmona’s Girlfriends and Girlfriends, Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby, and many others are featured in the PRIDE UNPREJUDICED: LGBTQ+ CINEMA collection.
PASSION
Passion (Drama) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI June 26
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
To celebrate the recent release of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Silver Lion winning masterpiece Evil Does Not Exist, MUBI exclusively presents Passion, which remained unreleased in the US until last year. Following a couple whose engagement announcement causes their small group of friends to slowly fracture, this is an awe-inspiring film that bears many of the staples that Hamaguchi would become known for while bouncing along to its own emotional velocity.
DAD & STEP-DAD
Dad & Step-Dad (Comedy) – Streaming June 1
Dir. Tynan DeLong, 2023
Streaming on MUBI just in time for Father’s Day, Dad & Step-Dad is a comedy about family, communication, insecurity, and the fragility of the male ego. In an effort to bond for the sake of Branson, their 13-year-old son, Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, spend a weekend in a cabin upstate together with their shared kid. However, tensions start to mount as differing parenting techniques come to the fore.
CHASING RAINBOWS: FILMS BY THE ROSS BROTHERS
To celebrate the release of Gasoline Rainbow, MUBI presents a career-spanning retrospective of American raconteurs Bill and Turner Ross. Featured is their long unavailable, SXSW-winning debut feature, 45365, which explores the town of Sidney, Ohio in a way that only the Ross brothers can summon. Alongside it is their sensational collaboration with David Byrne, Contemporary Color, filmed partially at Toronto’s Scotiabank arena and features colour guard teams from Quebec and Kitchener-Waterloo.
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
My Blueberry Nights (Drama, Romance) – Streaming June 30
Dir. Wong Kar Wai, 2007
Starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz, this Palme d’Or nominee follows Elizabeth who leaves her memories behind after a nasty breakup and chases her dreams across the country. Picking up a series of jobs to support herself along the way, the myriad of lost souls she meets help her to understand the journey as part of a greater exploration within herself.
HAND-PICKED BY ISABEL SANDOVAL
This June, MUBI invited Lingua Franca director Isabel Sandoval to hand-pick some of her favourite films from the MUBI vaults. Included in Sandoval’s curation is a wide-ranging selection of films reflecting her eclectic personal taste, including Nelly Kaplan’s folklore cult A Very Curious Girl, Peter Strickland’s Duke of Burgundy, a daring erotic drama exploring a sadomasochist relationship, Lee Chang-dong’s Cannes prize winning psychological thriller Burning, Olivier Assayas’ tale of dualities and brooding power dynamics Clouds of Sils Maria and so many more.
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