Now it’s Mubi’s turn to present its September titles. What does the 2024 fall season look like on the platform?

We’re taking a look. It’s pretty promising, you’ll see.

The year’s releases

Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life (Dan Covert) | Streaming from September 1 

What defines a life? The iconic work of Calgary-born artist Geoff McFetridge is everywhere. But this film is more than a primer on his career — it’s about the choices we confront in trying to lead meaningful lives, and how we use our most precious resource: time. Geoff McFetridge is a graphic artist and painter who created every OS interface for Spike Jonze’s Her (2013), Ottawa commuters pass by one of his murals when passing through Lyon Station, and his work is featured in galleries across the globe. 

Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life won the Documentary Feature Competition at SXSW in 2023 and comes to the platform as a part of the Portrait of the Artist collection, which celebrates influential artists of our time.

My First Film (Zia Anger) | Streaming from September 6 

Vita (Odessa Young), revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking – a semi-autobiographical feature made 15 years prior about a young woman who decides to leave home after becoming pregnant. Blending past with present, reality with fiction, Zia Anger’s “debut” film navigates the tumultuous intersection of personal experience and narrative innovation, reflecting on the transformative power of artistic self-reflection. 

My First Film is the newest addition to the MILLENNIAL MELTDOWN, MUBI’s new collection of films featuring bewildered characters that are navigating the rough currents of a quarter-life crisis. No need to wait for permission to spiral: this is an invite to MUBI’s millennial meltdown party.

Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli) | Streaming from September 13

This neo-fairytale set in Wyoming, USA follows three mischievous children as they embark on an odyssey when their mother asks them to run an errand. On the hunt to obtain her favourite blueberry pie, the children are kidnapped by poachers, battle a witch, outwit a huntsman, befriend a fairy, and bond together to become best friends forever. 

Riddle of Fire was featured in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2023.

The coming classics

Wildlife (Paul Dano) – 2018 | Streaming from September 1

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) and Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) —a housewife and a golf pro living in a small town in ’60s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages, and when Jerry loses his job, he decides to join the cause of fighting it, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. 

Wildlife is the directorial debut of Paul Dano, who is also known for his acting roles in films such as Prisoners, The Fabelmans and The Batman.

The Fall (Tarsem Singh) – 2006 | Streaming from September 27 

Los Angeles, circa 1920s, a little immigrant girl in a hospital recovering from a fall, strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man. He captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. 

Filmed over 4 years in 20 different locations across the globe, The Fall stars Lee Pace (Foundation) and Catinca Untaru.

Series

Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz) | Streaming from September 1

From its luxurious running time, to its sprawling cast of characters, Mysteries of Lisbon is an expansive epic of magisterial novelistic ambition. The last work by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, follows Joao, a bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry. 

This extended version presents Mysteries of Lisbon in six parts, as originally aired on television, providing a rare opportunity to get lost in the endlessly generating passageways of Ruiz’s complete vision.