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A global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema, MUBI creates, curates, acquires and champions visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world. And this January, some of the more ambitious, acclaimed, and seminal work of cinema’s most exciting filmmakers will be streaming for your pleasure.
Here’s a look at what to expect from MUBI in the new year:
Bring Them Down
Christopher Andrews’ searing debut feature Bring Them Down unfolds in the remote hills of Western Ireland, where an escalating feud between two neighbouring sheep-farming families spirals into a devastating cycle of violence. What begins as a land dispute erupts into a tense psychological drama exploring guilt, toxic masculinity, inherited trauma, and the destructive pull of vengeance.
Anchored by intense performances from Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, the film builds a claustrophobic atmosphere where every choice tightens the web of consequence. With stark visuals, a lean narrative style, and a raw emotional core, Bring Them Down was a standout at the Toronto International Film Festival and marks Andrews as a bold new voice in contemporary cinema.
Streaming from January 23rd.
Touki Bouki
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s revolutionary debut Touki Bouki follows disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory, who dream of abandoning Dakar for the glamour and imagined freedom of France. Their escape plan unfolds as a surreal odyssey – shaped as much by practical obstacles as by mystical, dreamlike ruptures – echoing the restless energy of a generation yearning for change.
Regularly heralded as one of the greatest African films ever made, Touki Bouki is a spellbinding, avant-garde lovers-on-the-lam tale filled with strange locales, burlesque characters, and audacious imagery that continues to influence cinema and popular culture today. Rooted in youthful rebellion and formal experimentation, the film defied contemporary notions of African cinema through its bold use of sound, cyclical montage, and hypnotic rhythms.
Winner of major festival accolades including the International Critics’ Award at Cannes and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, Touki Bouki remains an essential rediscovery.
Streaming from January 30th.
Following
Christopher Nolan’s micro-budget debut is a taut, 70-minute neo-noir about a drifting writer whose habit of following strangers takes a sinister turn. Shot guerilla-style on the streets of London, Following offers a first glimpse of Nolan’s signature non-linear structures, moral ambiguity, and psychological tension.
A cult thriller that laid the groundwork for a career defined by narrative experimentation, the film remains a fascinating early portrait of obsession, manipulation, and fractured identity.
Streaming from January 1st.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas Roeg‘s The Man Who Fell to Earth casts David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an ethereal alien seeking water for his dying planet who becomes corrupted by human excess. Using advanced technology to build a corporate empire, Newton loses himself in earthly pleasures – sex, television, alcohol – while his mission crumbles.
Roeg fragments time and space into a hallucinogenic mosaic that mirrors Newton’s alien perception and increasing dissolution. Bowie’s otherworldly presence has never been better utilised; he makes Newton’s alienation literal while finding unexpected pathos in his corruption. The film works simultaneously as science fiction, Christ allegory, and savage critique of American capitalism. Its non-linear structure and elliptical storytelling demand active viewing, rewarding patience with images of haunting beauty and existential dread. This is cinema as alien transmission – familiar yet foreign, beautiful yet disturbing.
Streaming from January 8th.
Die My Love
Set in rural America, Die My Love is a portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Starring Jennifer Lawrence in her Golden Globe-nominated role, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek, Lynn Ramsey‘s heartbreaking drama tells of a hopeful young and loving couple (Grace and Jackson), who move from New York to an inherited house in the country. Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in the isolated environment, yet as she begins to unravel, it’s not in weakness but imagination, strength and a stunning untamed vivacity that she discovers herself anew.
Streaming from December 23rd, 2025.
MUBI will also celebrate a series of curated collections, with spotlights on filmmaker David Lynch, Asian Avant-Garde, directorial debuts from some of cinema’s most influential auteurs, and, perfect for the Australian summer, a focus on swimming pools as cinematic spaces.
David Lynch: Delusions and Dreams
A celebration of David Lynch’s hypnotic, uncanny cinema – where dreams infect reality, identity fragments, and every frame pulses with mystery. Marking both Lynch’s birth and death anniversaries, this collection brings several landmark works to MUBI, many newly available.
Includes: Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story.
Streaming from January 16th.
Making a Splash: Swimming Pools on Film
A refreshing summer collection exploring swimming pools as cinematic spaces of desire, danger, leisure, and revelation. These films transform the pool into a site where boundaries blur and submerged emotions rise to the surface.
Includes: Swimming Pool, The Graduate, Youth, A Bigger Splash, La Ciénaga, Aftersun.
Streaming from January 1st.
CHANEL x M+Museum x Mubi: Asian Avant-Garde
A major collaboration spotlighting pioneering experimental works from across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Curated with M+ Museum in partnership with CHANEL, the collection combines historic breakthroughs with boundary-pushing contemporary works, including multiple exclusive restorations and festival selections.
Featured filmmakers include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kidlat Tahimik, Liu Jiayin, Riar Rizaldi, Han Ok-hee, and Minh Quý Trương.
Streaming from January 16th.
First Films First
A showcase of seminal directorial debuts from some of world cinema’s most influential auteurs – including Nolan, Trier, Reichardt, Martel, Panahi, Lanthimos, and Rohrwacher. These early works reveal the seeds of the artistic visions that would shape their later careers.
The White Balloon – Jafar Panahi’s acclaimed debut, a delicate and humane Tehran-set odyssey told from a child’s perspective.
Unrelated – Joanna Hogg’s intimate, incisive study of mid-life disquiet, marking the emergence of a major British auteur.
Reprise – Joachim Trier’s energetic, emotionally rich debut exploring ambition, friendship, and mental health.
Poor Cow – Ken Loach’s early social-realist portrait of a young mother navigating hardship with resilience.
Corpo Celeste – Alice Rohrwacher’s striking first feature about faith, adolescence, and the search for meaning.
Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari’s offbeat coming-of-age film blending awkward humour with Greek New Wave formalism.
Kinetta – Yorgos Lanthimos’ enigmatic debut, already signalling his fascination with ritual, performance, and emotional estrangement.
River of Grass – Kelly Reichardt’s first feature, a deadpan lovers-on-the-run anti-thriller that subverts American mythmaking.
Streaming from January 1st.
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