MUBI In April Will Have 'Grand Tours' and 'Showgirls'

Easter is only a few weeks away , at MUBI in April it will be a month of ‘grand tours’ and ‘Showgirls’.

Winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival, MUBI release Miguel Gomes‘s Grand Tour is debuting on the platform. MUBI have the streaming exclusive of Gia Coppola‘s The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson.

If ‘travel’ you desire the streamer will have the Travelogue Collection led by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen‘s breath-taking The Eight Mountains. Also this month, and Haley Elizabeth Anderson‘s Tendaberry. The Animated Desires collection features eight playful, provocative and wildly inventive shorts beginning with Bug Diner. The end of the world will be another big theme, MUBI have curated a selection of films set in dystopian worlds. To celebrate the release of Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical The End, including John Carpenter’s Escape from New York and Jeunet & Caro‘s Delicatessen.

MUBI RELEASES: GRAND TOUR

From visionary Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Arabian Nights) comes Grand Tour (2024), a dazzling, continent-spanning odyssey blending romance, screwball comedy, and lush visual storytelling. Winner of the Best Director award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and Portugal’s official submission for the Academy-Awards®, Grand Tour takes audiences on a whirlwind pursuit through colonial Asia, interweaving archival footage with stunning 16mm cinematography.

In 1917, British civil servant Edward abruptly abandons his fiancée, Molly, on the day of her arrival in Burma. Unwilling to accept his flight, the fiercely independent Molly embarks on a breath-taking chase across multiple cities, determined to confront the man who left her behind. As their paths crisscross through a rapidly shifting world, Grand Tour reinvents the spirit of classic screwball comedies, infusing it with Gomes’ signature blend of humour, melancholy, and cinematic wonder.

Grand Tour (Gomes, 2024) – 18th April

LATEST & GREATEST: THE LAST SHOWGIRL

In Gia Coppola’s comionate character portrait, Pamela Anderson) must suddenly devise a future for herself after her stage show, La Razzle Dazzle abruptly comes to an end. For Shelly, the show is an ode to a sorely missed epoch of glamour and sophistication that she has dedicated 30 years of her life to, but in doing so she has created a strained relationship with her daughter. With the future uncertain, can Shelly honour her art while reconstructing a life with her daughter?

Shot in a hazy 16mm, the camera’s dreamlike quality mirrors Shelly’s current position in the world, and while the myriad close-ups leave her vulnerable, Coppola never judges, but present the nuances of motherhood with intimacy and poignant understanding, all delivered with dazzling tenderness by Pamela Anderson, whose raw performance has heralded a major comeback for her and gained her both BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.

The Last Showgirl (Coppola, 2024) – 18th April

LATEST & GREATEST: TENDABERRY

Marking Haley Elizabeth Anderson as a bold new voice in independent cinema, Tendaberry (2024) is a raw and poetic reflection on womanhood, survival, and identity in an ever-changing world. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Next Innovator Award, the film offers an urgent, deeply personal portrait of resilience and womanhood, set against the backdrop of a shifting New York City.

As her boyfriend returns to Ukraine to care for his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota must navigate life on her own in post-pandemic Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Moving between precarious jobs and uncertain futures, she grapples with love, loss, and self-sufficiency in a city that both holds her and leaves her adrift. A deeply intimate, visually rich meditation on womanhood, immigrant identity, and modern America, Tendaberry captures the complex intersections of the personal and political with lyrical sensitivity.

Tendaberry (Anderson, 2024) – 25th April

ANIMATED DESIRES

Lust, fantasy, and pleasure take bold new forms in Animated Desires — a collection of playful, provocative, and wildly inventive shorts exploring sexuality through the boundless possibilities of animation. Featuring works mostly from women and LGBTQ+ filmmakers, this collection spans styles and decades, from pioneering erotica to contemporary expressions of self-exploration, longing, and liberation. Pushing beyond the constraints of live-action and using animation to capture the unconscious, the unspoken, and the unrestrained, Animated Desires celebrates self-expression in all its animated glory.

Bug Diner (Hart, 2024) – 1st April
Desire Pie (Crafts, 1977) – 15th April
Asparagus (Pitt, 1979) – 15TH April
Tram (Pavlátová, 2012) – 15th April
Pussy (Gąsiorowska, 2016) – 15th April
#21XOXO (Sine Özbilge, 2019) – 15th April
Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves (Lundgren & Ivezić, 2019) – 15th April
Nun or Never! (Jäälinoja, 2023) – 15th April

AFTER THE END: POST-APOCALYPTIC CINEMA

Gritty, probing, and exhilarating, dystopian worlds often serve as a warning to humanity, a series of “what-if” questions inspiring us to reflect on humanity and the choices we make. Our After the End: Post-Apocalyptic Cinema contends with these questions with a series of films united in essence but eclectic in style, just in time for MUBI’s cinematic release of Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical, The End (2024) on 28th March.

From genre maestro John Carpenter comes the anarchic Escape from New York (1991), set in an alternative Manhattan where crime rates have soared so high that the island has become a walled-off prison. Within this prison, outlaw Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) strikes a deal with the U.S. government: to extract the president safely if he wishes to stay alive. Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s darkly comic Delicatessen (1991) is set in a world where food has become so scarce that a butcher turned landlord exploits his tenants via truly grotesque means…

Escape from New York (Carpenter, 1991) – 1st April
Delicatassen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991) – 15th April
Time of the Wolf (Haneke, 2003) – 15th April
The Road (Hillcoat, 2009) – 15th April
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End Of Civilization (Szulkin, 1984) – Now Streaming
Monsters (Edwards, 2010) – Now Streaming

TRAVELOGUE

Blazing the trail for our Travelogue collection comes Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen’s breathtaking The Eight Mountains (2022), an epic of the friendship between two men over three decades as they traverse the rugged landscapes of the Alps. After their childhood adventures in a small mountain village, the two friends are separated for years, only to reunite later as adults to rebuild a hut on land Pietro inherits from his father, leading them to confront their past and reconnect with the land that shaped their bond. From these soaring peaks to the romantic voyage across Asia at the core of Grand Tour (2024), these films form a cinematic travelogue, charting not only physical odysseys but internally transformative ones too.

The Eight Mountains (Groeningen & Vandermeersch, 2022) – 4th April
Grand Tour (Gomes, 2024) – 18th April
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (Dixon, 1970) – Now Streaming
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974) – Now Streaming
The Fall (Singh, 2006) – Now Streaming
On the Road (Salles, 2012) – Now Streaming
Thursday Till Sunday (Castillo, 2012) – Now Streaming
Gasoline Rainbow (Ross Brothers, 2023) – Now Streaming
Pepe (de los Santos Arias, 2024) – Now Streaming