MUBI In July Will Be A Musical Odyssey And Immersive

Here comes the sun, do, do, doo. July is only days away and MUBI have prepped a month that will be a ‘Musical Odyssey And Immersive’.

The new month will have a diverse range new titles and themed collections coming to the platform set to challenge you visually and intellectually. These include the exclusive streaming premieres of recent cinema releases The Beast and Hoard, Riz Ahmed in Yann Demange’s new short film Dammi plus collections highlighting music on film, British debuts, the work of Luna Carmoon, Léa Seydoux and more…

MUBI RELEASE: DAMMI

Releasing exclusively on MUBI comes celebrated filmmaker Yann Demange’s short Dammi (2023). Riz Ahmed plays alongside French stars including Isabelle Adjani in this semi-autobiographical of a man travelling back to Paris from London to reconnect with his estranged father. While navigating Paris, he is forced to face his fears and guilt while also reclaiming the Arab identity he feels is lost while being a French and British citizen.

Dammi (Demange, 2023) – 12th July

CROSSING THE BRIDGE – THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL

Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akın revisits his 2005 landmark documentary, Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul (2005) with this remastered 4K re-release now exclusively streaming on MUBI. Narrated by German musician Alexander Hacke, the film is an immersive musical odyssey across Istanbul that paints a portrait of the city’s rich and eclectic musical history. Through the perspective of German musician Alexander Hacke, Akın is able to uncover the many influences from Europe and Asia that have developed the unique fusion of sound that is Turkish music today.

Through intimate interviews, dynamic street performances, and personal encounters, this film stands as a testament to Akın‘s prowess in offering a glimpse into the soul of a city where history and modernity blend seamlessly. It’s an invitation to experience the transcendent beauty of music and the universal connections it fosters.

Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul (Akın, 2005) – 5th July

LATEST & GREATEST: THE BEAST

Coming exclusively to MUBI following its recent theatrical release, and inspired by the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle (1903) Bertrand Bonello’s Golden Lion-nominated The Beast (2023) takes Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) through three different timelines as she attempts to purify herself of her emotional traumas by entering a machine that can immerse her into her past.

Bonello’s sci-fi is sweeping in its romanticism as in each of these past lives Gabrielle is continuously linked to Louis (George MacKay); a link which allows Bonello to speculate on the existence of soul mates over the course of time.

The Beast (Bonello, 2023) – 12th July

LATEST & GREATEST: HOARD
Hoard (2023) and third film set in London solidifies her as an integral part of the new wave of British filmmakers. Hoard continues Carmoon’s preoccupation with female adolescence by looking at the childhood of Maria (Saura Lightfoot Leon) and her relationship with her mother. As she gets older, tragedy strikes and Maria seeks to reconcile her relationship with her mother the only way she knows how: by rummaging through bins for discarded treasures and collecting bags full of garbage. Arriving exclusively on MUBI this July.

Hoard (Carmoon, 2023) – 5th July

TURN IT UP: MUSIC ON FILM

The Turn It Up: Music on Film collection will have you tapping your feet to the harmonious and celebratory world of music making, while occasionally lamenting the sometimes discordant lives of the great musicians who create it. Rediscovered and exclusively streaming on MUBI comes Fatih Akın’s Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul (2005), a musical odyssey across Istanbul that paints a portrait of the city’s rich and eclectic musical history. Lenny Abrahamson takes a fictional approach to the tricky emotional lives of musicians with Frank (2014), while High & Low – John Galliano’s Kevin Macdonald reveals his interest in complicated figures with Whitney (2018), a document of her incredible musical career and untimely death.

Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul (Akın, 2005) – 5th July
When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors (DiCillo, 2009) – 10th July
Frank (Abrahamson, 2014) – 10th July
Whitney (Macdonald, 2018) – Now Streaming

THE NEXT GENERATION: BRITISH DEBUTS

Trace the history of British talent with British Debuts. Coming soon is Hong Khaou’s London-set Lilting (2014) in which Richard (Ben Whishaw) develops a relationship with the mother of his dead partner who doesn’t speak his language. Despite the barriers at play, they manage to piece together memories of the man they both loved. MUBI is a proud er of British debuts, and in this strand, we are showcasing three recent MUBI Releases: Molly Manning Walker’s award-winning: How To Have Sex (2023), Thomas Hardiman’s daring Medusa Deluxe (2022), as well as bringing back to the platform Charlotte Wells’s celebrated and multi-award winning Aftersun (2022), the melancholic tale of a daughter reminiscing on the final summer holiday she had with her father as a child.

Lilting (Khaou, 2014) – 5th July
Second Coming (Green, 2014) – 5th July
Hoard (Carmoon, 2023) – 5th July
The Goob (Myhill, 2014) – Now Streaming
Surge (Karia, 2020) – Now Streaming

FILMS FOR GROSS GIRLS: THREE BY LUNA CARMOON

While Luna Carmoon’s first feature film Hoard (2023) focuses on the reconciliation of a mother-daughter relationship with an excavation of the past, first came her shorts Nosebleed (2018) and Shagbands (2020), both films establishing Carmoon as an up-and-coming auteur of female relationships and adolescence. Nosebleeds focuses on the formative yet toxic friendship between two young women over one week, while Shagbands explores the waters of female adolescence via a lived-through 2006 London heatwave and the titular “shagbands”.

Nosebleed (Carmoon, 2018) – 5th July
Shagbands (Carmoon, 2020) – 5th July
Hoard (Carmoon, 2023) – 5th July

PERFORMERS WE LOVE: LÉA SEYDOUX

Arthouse treasure Léa Seydoux is spotlighted in our collection Performers We Love: Léa Seydoux. David Cronenberg’s profound body horror Crimes of the Future (2022) speculates on the next phase of human evolution through performance artist couple Caprice (Léa) and Saul (Viggo Mortensen) as they put on public showcases of the body metamorphosing in response to new organ implants, while Bertrand Bonello’s Golden Lion-nominated The Beast (2023) takes Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) through three different timelines as she attempts to purify herself of her emotional traumas by entering a machine that can immerse her into her past. Each film in the collection demonstrates Léa Seydoux’s incredible career choices and work with various auteurs since entering the public’s consciousness with Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013).

Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg, 2022) – 12th July
The Beast (Bonello, 2023) – 12th July
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013) – Now Streaming
(Dumont, 2021) – Now Streaming

SHORT FILMS BIG NAMES: INCOHERENCE

The first South Korean filmmaker to win an Academy Award, Bong Joon-ho started his career with the short film Incoherence (1994), a comedic of the daily life of three ostensibly unrelated men leading different lives, who end up on a TV show and find out their lives are more intermingled than they thought. From the inception of his career, Bong proves that he has always had the ability to fuse humour with biting social commentary.

Incoherence (Bong, 1994) – 1st July

Exclusive streaming premieres from the most prestigious international film festivals and rediscovered classics selected by MUBI’s curators

[Brief Encounters] The lush world of Portuguese filmmaker Jorge Jácome continues to bloom with Shrooms (2023). Dan, a young man from Venezuela lives in Lisbon and spends his time in forests collecting magic mushrooms. A psychedelic Robin Hood of sorts, Dan then takes these mushrooms into the city and distributes them to depressed people in search of a solution for their ailment in this progressive appreciation of the medicinal qualities that psilocybin can have on human wellbeing.

Shrooms (Jácome, 2023) – 1st July

[Latest & Greatest] In Kit Zahaur’s intimate chamber drama This Closeness (2023), we follow the rising tensions of a couple whose tenuous relationship enters new territories as they stay at the home of a reclusive host.

This Closeness (Zauhar, 2023) – 3rd July

[MUBI Exclusive] In Julia Fuhr Mann’s Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning (2023) a collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game?

Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning (Mann, 2023) – 26th July