MUBI is bringing its first London festival to Hackney Picturehouse this November: three days of previews, repertory favourites, filmmaker conversations, live music, panels and the sort of cinema-going that is supposed to spill out into the bar afterwards.
MUBI FEST London runs from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November 2026. The programme is deliberately broad — Cannes winners, cult restoration, queer shorts, Black British film history and a few invitations to stay out late — but its centre of gravity is a run of major MUBI titles arriving with filmmakers and collaborators in the room.
The opening-night draw is one of the first UK screenings of Rose, Markus Schleinzer’s new film starring Sandra Hüller, followed by a Q&A with Schleinzer. The same evening also marks the 25th anniversary of Donnie Darko with a new 4K restoration and a live Evolution of Horror podcast recording on “the horror of adolescence”. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive will screen to mark the release of Her Private Hell, before MUBI and Crack Magazine’s Underscore returns with a music-led response to Refn’s neon, synth-heavy cinema.
Saturday leans into the festival’s international-cinema credentials. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Minotaur receives a preview screening in partnership with the London Review of Books, while Lukas Dhont’s First World War romance Coward arrives fresh from its London Film Festival premiere. Dhont’s film will be followed by a conversation with co-screenwriter Angelo Tijssens and lead actors Valentin Campagne and Emmanuel Macchia.
There is plenty beyond the headline previews: Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden; the 50th-anniversary screening of Horace Ové’s Pressure with a panel celebrating five decades of Black British cinema; Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron; and Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, whose director will also take part in a Gay Times and MUBI Queer Short Film Prize panel. Sunday closes with Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter, followed by a Q&A with Haigh, alongside a first UK screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, Nuisance Bear and Bouchra.
Outside the auditoriums, MUBI is promising live music, social events, free shorts programmes and a custom-built MUBI Library devoted to its publishing output, including Notebook magazine and MUBI Editions books. It is a useful reminder that streaming services do not have to make cinema feel smaller: sometimes the most persuasive thing they can do is create a reason to leave the house and talk about what you have just seen.
Tickets go on sale to MUBI subscribers from 10am on Wednesday 30 September, with general sale opening at 10am on Friday 2 October. More screenings and activities are due to be announced on 20 October.
Find the full programme and ticket information via MUBI FEST London.
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