Exclusive: MUBI’s film festival is coming to London for the first time in November
by Phil de Semlyen · Time Out LondonThe BFI London Film Festival isn’t the only movie game in town this autumn, because Mubi has just announced its first ever film festival in London.
The film distributor, production house and streaming service is hosting Mubi Fest, a three-day mini film fest, at Hackney Picturehouse from November 13-15.
On the programme on Friday, November 13 are screenings of actress-of-the-moment Sandra Hüller’s new period drama Rose (5 stars – Time Out), with director Markus Schleinzer in attendance for a Q&A; followed by a 4k restoration screening of Donnie Darko (2001), and a live podcast with the Evolution of Horror on ‘the horror of adolescence’.
Look out, too, for a special 15th anniversary screening of 2011 neo-noir thriller Drive introduced by director Nicolas Winding Refn.
Saturday, November 14 brings a preview screening of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s extraordinary new thriller Minotaur; Lukas Dhont’s World War 1 queer romance Coward and a Q&A with its co-screenwriter Angelo Tijssens and lead actors Valentin Campagne and Emmanuel Macchia; Sophy Romvari's gorgeous family drama Blue Heron. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo director Diego Céspedes will be there for a Q&A ahead of a screening of his queer Latin American fable.
Look out, too, for two strikingly diverse masterpieces: Park Chan-wook’s slow-burn period thriller The Handmaiden and Horace Ové's pioneering Black British drama Pressure.
The final day of Mubi Fest brings a special Q&A screening of Andrew Haigh’s new film A Long Winter, and an early showing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new concert doc capturing Geese front man Cameron Winter’s performance at Carnegie Hall.
Sundance winner Nuisance Bear, a documentary about the friction between humans and the animal kingdom, will also be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.
Tickets go on sale for the London edition to Mubi subscribers at 10am on Wednesday, September 30 before hitting general sale at 10am on Friday, October 2.
Look out for more news and announcements on October 20. Head to the official site in the meantime for more information and to book tickets.
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