Mubi (streaming service)
Mubi (/ˈmuːbi/; stylized as MUBI; the Auteurs before 2010) is a global streaming platform, production company and film distributor. MUBI produces[1] and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusively available on its platform. Additionally, it publishes Notebook, a film criticism and news publication, and provides weekly cinema tickets to selected new-release films through MUBI GO.
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Type of site | Streaming video Social networking Film criticism Distributor Producer |
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| Available in | Brazilian Portuguese Dutch English French German Italian Malay Spanish Turkish |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Founder(s) | Efe Cakarel |
| Key people | Efe Cakarel (Founder & CEO) |
| URL | mubi |
| Launched | 14 February 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
MUBI's streaming platform is available in over 190 countries on the web, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku devices, PlayStation,[2] Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV,[3] and LG and Samsung Smart TVs,[4] as well as on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad[5] and Android.[6]
History
The Auteurs was founded in 2007 by Efe Çakarel, who began work on the business model for MUBI after being unable to watch In the Mood for Love online while in a café in Tokyo.[7]
The Criterion Collection began to provide video-on-demand (VOD) in partnership with The Auteurs in 2008.
In 2010, the company adopted the new name "MUBI".[8]
MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor. A new hand-picked film arrives on the platform every day, each chosen by MUBI’s curators.
In January 2022, MUBI announced the acquisition of The Match Factory, the international production and sales company.[9]
Prior to the 79th Venice International Film Festival world premiere, MUBI entered the TV industry by acquiring The Kingdom Exodus miniseries. They also brought out the first two seasons of the original series in never-before-seen director's cuts.[10]
Podcasts
In 2021, MUBI launched two original podcasts. An English language podcast called MUBI Podcast[11] produced with Rico Gagliano, and a Spanish language podcast titled MUBI Podcast: Encuentros,[12] produced in collaboration with La Corriente del Golfo, the production house founded by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.
MUBI Productions
MUBI Productions and co-productions include Port Authority (Danielle Lessovitz), Farewell Amor (Ewka Msangi), Our Men (Rachel Lang), Memory (Michel Franco), My First Film (Zia Anger), Bring Them Down (Christopher Andrews), One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve), Gasoline Rainbow (the Ross brothers)[13] and Rosebushpruning (Karim Aïnouz).
MUBI Releases
MUBI is also a film distributor. In addition to releasing films on the platform, it started distributing theatrically in the United States and United Kingdom in 2016, and in Latin America and Germany in 2021.
| Year | Film | Director | Theatrical release | on MUBI | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arabian Nights | Miguel Gomes | April 22, 2016 | UK | |
| The Blue Room | Mathieu Amalric | September 9, 2016 | |||
| Baden Baden | Rachel Lang | September 23, 2016 (UK)
November 25, 2016 (US) |
UK, US | ||
| I, Olga | Tomás Weinreb & Petr Kazda | November 18, 2016 | UK | ||
| 2017 | The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Juho Kuosmanen | April 21, 2017 (UK) May 19, 2017 (US) |
US | |
| Weirdos | Bruce McDonald | May 25, 2017 | |||
| Slack Bay | Bruno Dumont | June 16, 2017 | UK | ||
| Mimosas | Oliver Laxe | August 25, 2017 | |||
| On Body and Soul | Ildikó Enyedi | September 22, 2017 | |||
| Félicité | Alain Gomis | November 10, 2017 | |||
| Wet Woman | Akihiko Shiota | November 17, 2017 | US | ||
| Antiporno | Sion Sono | November 10, 2017 | |||
| The Son of Joseph | Eugène Green | December 15, 2017 | UK | ||
| 2018 | Lover for a Day | Philippe Garrel | January 12, 2018 (US) January 19, 2018 (UK) |
US, UK | |
| Have a Nice Day | Liu Jian | March 23, 2018 | UK | ||
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Stephen Nomura Schible | July 6, 2018 | US, UK | ||
| The Apparition | Xavier Giannoli | August 3, 2018 | UK | ||
| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | October 19, 2018 | |||
| Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot | Gus Van Sant | October 26, 2018 | |||
| Suspiria | Luca Guadagnino | November 16, 2018 | |||
| 2019 | Border | Ali Abbasi | March 8, 2019 | ||
| Under the Silver Lake | David Robert Mitchell | March 15, 2019 | |||
| Madeline's Madeline | Josephine Decker | May 10, 2019 | UK & Ireland | ||
| Knife + Heart | Yann Gonzalez | July 5, 2019 | |||
| LETO | Kirill Serebrennikov | August 16, 2019 | |||
| A Dog Called Money | Seamus Murphy | November 8, 2019 | |||
| Beanpole | Kantemir Balagov | October 11, 2019 | |||
| Zombi Child | Bertrand Bonello | October 18, 2019 | |||
| Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections | Olivier Meyrou | October 30, 2019 | |||
| 2020 | The Staggering Girl | Luca Guadagnino | February 14, 2020 | Worldwide (excl. China, Italy, Japan, Russia) | |
| Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | March 13, 2020 | Germany, India, Ireland, UK | ||
| Ema | Pablo Larraín | May 2, 2020 | Canada, India, Ireland, LATAM (excl. Mexico, Chile, Brazil), UK | ||
| Family Romance, LLC | Werner Herzog | July 4, 2020 | Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, LATAM (excl. Brazil), New Zealand, Turkey, US | ||
| Matthias & Maxime | Xavier Dolan | August 28, 2020 | Australia, India, Ireland, LATAM (excl. Mexico), New Zealand, UK, US | ||
| The Other Lamb | Małgorzata Szumowska | October 16, 2020 | UK & Ireland | ||
| Swallow | Carlo Mirabella-Davis | October 31, 2020 | Australia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, Indonesia, LATAM (excl. Mexico), New Zealand, Scandinavia, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa | ||
| Nimic | Yorgos Lanthimos | November 27, 2020 | Worldwide (excl. China) | ||
| Tripping with Nils Frahm | Benoit Toulemonde | December 3, 2020 | Worldwide | ||
| Cold Meridian | Peter Strickland | December 11, 2020 | |||
| Farewell Amor | Ekwa Msangi | December 18, 2020 | Worldwide (excl. China, Africa, Israel, North America) | ||
| 2021 | Beginning | Dea Kulumbegashvili | January 29, 2021 | Germany, India, Ireland, LATAM, North America, Turkey, UK | |
| Dead Pigs | Cathy Yan | February 12, 2021 | Worldwide (excluding China) | ||
| Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | March 5, 2021 | India, Ireland, LATAM, UK | ||
| Hey There! | Reha Erdem | March 13, 2021 | Canada, Germany, Turkey | ||
| Max Richter's Sleep | Natalie Johns | March 19, 2021 (India, US)
March 28, 2021 (LATAM, Turkey) |
India, LATAM, Turkey, US | ||
| Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Chloe Zhao | April 9, 2021 | Germany, Ireland, Italy, LATAM, India, Netherlands, Turkey, UK and others | ||
| State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | May 7, 2021 (US) | May 21, 2021 | Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, LATAM, New Zealand, Turkey, UK, US | |
| First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | May 28, 2021 | UK & Ireland | ||
| Shiva Baby | Emma Seligman | June 11, 2021 | Austria, France, Germany, India, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, UK | ||
| Sweat | Magnus von Horn | June 18, 2021 (US) | July 23, 2021 | India, LATAM, Turkey, US | |
| Limbo | Ben Sharrock | July 30, 2021 | September 23, 2021 | UK & Ireland | |
| New Order | Michel Franco | August 13, 2021 | |||
| Annette | Leos Carax | September 3, 2021 | November 26, 2021 | Ireland, India, LATAM, UK | |
| Azor | Andreas Fontana | September 10, 2021 (US) October 29, 2021 (UK) |
India, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, UK, US | ||
| Cryptozoo | Dash Shaw | October 22, 2021 | Germany, Ireland, Turkey, UK | ||
| What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Alexandre Koberidze | November 12, 2021 (US) | January 7, 2022 | Canada, India, Italy, LATAM, Turkey, US | |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | November 19, 2021 | February 18, 2022 | Ireland, Italy, Turkey, UK | |
| Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson | December 10, 2021 (UK) | February 25, 2022 | India, Ireland, LATAM (excl. Mexico), Turkey, UK | |
| 2022 | Cow | Andrea Arnold | January 14, 2022 (UK) | February 11, 2022 | Austria, Germany, Italy, Ireland, India, LATAM, Turkey, UK |
| Titane | Julia Ducournau | January 28, 2022 | India, LATAM, Turkey | ||
| Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | February 4, 2022 (US & UK) | March 8, 2022 | Canada, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, UK, US | |
| Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | April 15, 2022 (UK) | February 4, 2022 (Turkey)
July 1, 2022 |
India, Ireland, Turkey, UK | |
| Great Freedom | Sebastian Meise | March 4, 2022 (US)
March 11, 2022 (UK) |
May 6, 2022 | Canada, India, Ireland, LATAM (excl. Mexico), Turkey, UK, US | |
| The Worst Person in The World | Joachim Trier | March 25, 2022 (UK) | May 13, 2022 | India, Ireland, UK | |
| Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | March 17, 2022 (AR, BR, CL, CO, MX) | April 1, 2022 | LATAM (excl. Mexico), India, Malaysia | |
| Prayers for the Stolen | Tatiana Huezo | April 8, 2022 (UK & Ireland) | April 29, 2022 | UK, Ireland, France, Italy, India | |
| Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | May 5, 2022 (Germany) | August 5, 2022 | Germany, India, Italy, LATAM (excl. Mexico & Colombia) | |
| Paris, 13th District | Jacques Audiard | May 27, 2022 | India, Turkey | ||
| Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | June 3, 2022 (UK & Ireland) | July 22, 2022 | UK & Ireland | |
| Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | June 15, 2022 (UK) | June 17, 2022 | Italy, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, UK | |
| A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano | June 23, 2022 (Germany)
July 15, 2022 (UK) |
August 26, 2022 | Germany, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, UK | |
| Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir | June 24, 2022 (UK) | August 10, 2022 | France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, LATAM, Turkey, UK | |
| Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | July 14, 2022 (LATAM) | July 29, 2022 (on Mubi) | India, LATAM, Malaysia, Turkey | |
| One Second | Zhang Yimou | July 14, 2022 (Germany) | September 16, 2022 | Germany, Ireland, Turkey, UK | |
| Free Chol Soo Lee | Julie Ha and Eugene Yi | August 12, 2022 (US)
August 19, 2022 (UK) |
October 7, 2022 | Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, LATAM, Turkey, UK, US | |
| The Cathedral | Ricky D’Ambrose | September 2, 2022 (US) | September 9, 2022 | US, Canada | |
| Invisible Demons | Rahul Jain | September 2, 2022 (US) | October 4, 2022 | Canada, Germany, India, LATAM, Malaysia, Turkey, UK, US | |
| Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | October 14, 2022 (US) October 21, 2022 (UK) |
December 9, 2022 | Canada, India, Turkey, UK, US | |
| Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | November 18, 2022 (UK)
December 15, 2022 (Germany) February 1, 2023 (France) |
January 6, 2023 (UK, Ireland, Italy, India, LATAM) March 17, 2023 (Germany, Austria, Spain) |
Austria, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, LATAM, Spain, Turkey, UK | |
| The Kingdom | Lars von Trier | November 13, 2022 (series 1 remaster)
November 20, 2022 (series 2 remaster) November 27, 2022 (series Exodus) |
Ireland, India, LATAM, Turkey, UK, US | ||
| 2023 | Alcarràs | Carla Simón | January 5, 2023 (LATAM)
January 6, 2023 (US & UK) |
February 24, 2023 | Canada, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, India, Malaysia, UK, US |
| Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | January 19, 2023 (LATAM) January 20, 2023 (UK) |
March 10, 2023 | UK, Ireland, LATAM (excl. Mexico) and Malaysia | |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | March 2, 2023 (LATAM)
March 3, 2023 (UK) |
April 21, 2023 | UK, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey and India | |
| The Five Devils | Léa Mysius | March 23, 2023 (LATAM)
March 24, 2023 (US & UK) |
May 12, 2023 | Canada, Germany, India, LATAM, Turkey, UK, US, Austria | |
| Leila's Brothers | Saeed Roustayi | March 25, 2023 | Turkey | ||
| One Fine Morning | Mia Hansen-Løve | April 14, 2023 (UK) | June 16, 2023 | India, Ireland, Turkey, UK | |
| Return to Seoul | Davy Chou | May 5, 2023 (UK) | July 7, 2023 | UK, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, India and Southeast Asia (ex. The Philippines) | |
| Unclenching the Fists | Kira Kovalenko | May 26, 2023 | Canada, India, Ireland, LATAM, UK, US | ||
| Medusa Deluxe | Thomas Hardiman | June 9, 2023 (UK) | August 4, 2023 | UK, Ireland, Germany, LATAM, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, India and Malaysia | |
| Passages | Ira Sachs | August 4, 2023 (US)
August 10, 2023 (Chile, Mexico) August 16, 2023 (Belgium, Luxembourg) August 17, 2023 (Italy) August 17, 2023 (Brazil) August 24, 2023 (Netherlands) August 31, 2023 (Germany, Austria) September 1, 2023 (UK & Ireland) |
TBC | UK, US, Ireland, Latin America, Italy, Germany, Austria, Turkey and Benelux | |
| Strange Way of Life | Pedro Almodóvar | September 21, 2023 (Italy and LATAM) | October 20, 2023 (LATAM, Italy, France, UK and Ireland) | Italy, LATAM[14] | |
| The Delinquents | Rodrigo Moreno | October 18, 2023 (US)
October 26, 2023 (LATAM) October 27, 2023 (Canada) |
TBC | North America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Benelux, LATAM, Turkey, India | |
| Fallen Leaves | Aki Kaurismäki | November 17, 2023 (US)
November 24, 2023 (Canada) December 1, 2023 (UK and Ireland) December 7, 2023 (Mexico and Chile) |
North America, UK, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey | ||
| Priscilla | Sofia Coppola | December 26, 2023 (UK, Ireland, Germany and Latin America) | UK, Ireland, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Turkey and Benelux[15] | ||
| 2024 | The Settlers | Felipe Gálvez | January 12, 2024 (US) | North America, UK, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, India | |
| TBC | Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World | Radu Jude | TBC | US, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, India, Turkey, Latin America[16] | |
| High and Low - John Galliano | Kevin Macdonald | TBC | North America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, LATAM, Benelux, Turkey, India | ||
| How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | TBC | North America, UK, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, LATAM, Benelux | ||
| Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | TBC | UK, Ireland, LATAM, Turkey | ||
See also
References
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