Some great new releases are coming to Mubi in April, including several exclusives. Many of these new releases are also Canadian premieres.
Not to mention a group of rather exciting animations that will be grouped together in a brand-new list.
This Year’s Releases
A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo) – 2024 | Streaming exclusively on MUBI on April 11
Drinking makgeolli (Korean rice wine) to comfort herself, a French woman, who finds herself without money or means to support herself, becomes a French teacher for two Korean women.
A Traveler’s Needs had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) – 2024 | Streaming exclusively on MUBI from April 18
1917, colonial Burma. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he escapes into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, she quickly follows suit. Grand Tour is directed by Miguel Gomes, the award-winning director of Tabu and Arabian Nights.
Grand Tour earned Gomes the Best Director prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, and was Portugal’s Best International Feature entry to the 97th Academy Awards®. Grand Tour will be playing in theaters across Canada starting March 28, 2025.
Tendaberry (Haley Elizabeth Anderson) – 2024 | Streaming exclusively on MUBI on April 25
As her boyfriend returns to Ukraine to care for his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota faces the challenges of a precarious new reality, navigating the complexities of survival in New York City on her own.
Tendaberry had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and is writer-director Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s feature film debut.
Upcoming Classics
Mainstream (Gia Coppola) – 2020 | Streaming on April 1st
Three people struggle to preserve their identities as they form an eccentric love triangle within the fast-moving internet age.
Mainstream stars Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, Hacksaw Ridge), Maya Hawke (Asteroid City, Stranger Things), and Jason Schwartzman (Queer, Moonrise Kingdom), and is director-writer Gia Coppola’s second feature film. The film was an official selection at Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival in 2020.
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) – 2022 | Streaming exclusively on MUBI on April 11
An artist is on the verge of a career-changing exhibition. As she navigates family, friends, and colleagues in the lead up to her show, the chaos of life becomes the inspiration for great art.
Showing Up is Michelle Williams’ (Blue Valentine, Manchester By The Sea) fourth collaboration with director Kelly Reichardt. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or.
New Collection
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.
Bug Diner
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 (Phoebe Jane Hart) – 2024 | Streaming on April 1
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.
Bug Diner won the Short Film Jury Award: Animation at Sundance Film Festival in 2024, and the Special Jury Award (Animated Shorts) at SXSW in the same year.
Tram (Michaela Pavlátová) – 2012 | Streaming April 11
The humdrum daily routine of a tram conductress is jolted when the vibrations and rhythm of the road turn her on and take her on an erotic and surrealistic fantasy journey.
Tram premiered at the Annecy International Animation FIlm Festival in 2012, where it won the Cristal for Best Short Film.
Asparagus (Suzan Pitt) – 1979 | Streaming April 11
A blank-faced protagonist is propelled into a fantasy world of asparagus, where she fondles, excretes, and flushes away the vegetables. She heads into a city at night, arriving at a theatre of optical illusions, where she opens her handbag to release rare wonders in front of a claymation audience.
