MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, today announces the April 2025 launch of its global publishing arm, MUBI Editions, a new publisher dedicated to cinema and the arts. 

Defined by a thought-provoking list and featuring unique design collaborations, MUBI Editions will publish across a range of formats and genres, and, in doing so, will broaden the horizons of what cinema-related publishing can be. With the first book to launch in 2025, MUBI Editions will publish 2-3 titles in its inaugural year.

MUBI Editions marks an exciting new chapter for MUBI, building on their long history of championing cinema culture through both film viewing and film publishing. Originally founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel as a curated streaming service with the mission to make great cinema accessible to global audiences, MUBI’s first foray into publishing was the launch of the online publication, Notebook, which explores what’s most exciting in global film culture. In 2016, MUBI started releasing movies by visionary filmmakers into theaters around the world, bringing its vision of curation from the digital to the physical world. In 2021, Notebook expanded to also encompass a globally-distributed, biannual print magazine. Now, MUBI continues their commitment to publishing by launching MUBI Editions.

Through its distinctive range of books, MUBI Editions intends to play a meaningful role in fostering a global community of engaged, art-loving viewers and readers—now and into the future.

MUBI Editions will publish across four core series: Projections, books dedicated to the world of film culture and history; Auteurs, books and art objects made in close collaboration with renowned artists and filmmakers; Internegatives, republications of rare, out of-print, or newly translated texts and Lights!, books that explore and expand MUBI’s productions and releases.

MUBI Editions will launch in April 2025 with a book encapsulating its core ambitions. Read Frame Type Film, prepared in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is a richly illustrated title living at the intersection of film, visual history, and design. 

From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical part in the structure of a film. Yet, away from the world of mainstream cinema, these textual—and visual—elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type Film, curator Enrico Camporesi, design historian Catherine de Smet, and designer Philippe Millot aim to address this gap by focusing on an often neglected field: experimental and artists’ films. They bring their extensive research and expertise to a discussion of 24 works from the film collection at the Centre Pompidou that offer unique perspectives on the affinity between cinema and typography. Composed of a series of rich explorative texts, accompanying specially commissioned photography of analog film strips from the collection, the book is itself an experimental object, in which text and images mirror one another.

MUBI Editions is also delighted to reveal that, alongside direct sales through their website, mubieditions.com, its exclusive worldwide distribution partners will be Thames & Hudson (Global ex. US and Canada) and Distributed Art Publishers (US and Canada).

MUBI Editions will launch with a new visual identity, echoing the iconic MUBI logo. Taking inspiration from MUBI’s seven dots, MUBI Editions will be identified by seven lines that, at once, represent spines of books and evoke the early animation device, the zoetrope. This interlinking of art forms further emphasizes MUBI’s passion for both film and publishing. 

Daniel Kasman, Vice President of Editorial Content says: “Since its founding, MUBI has always seen publishing as a key element of connecting cinema with global audiences. With MUBI Editions, we are building upon the great work done by our online and print publication, Notebook, and going even further: to start a new publishing arm dedicated to exploring the beauty and richness of the seventh art. In doing so, MUBI will continue to deepen its mission to bring audiences around the world together through their love of great movies and the culture and history of cinema.”

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