It feels like the hottest summer ever. If you can’t find a shady spot outside, you’re better off staying inside with the fan on rather than melting in line at Prinzenbad. And to make all that horizontal time a little sweeter, Mubi is not only offering a great film lineup, but also a very good deal. All new Mubi subscribers can get 70 percent off the monthly price for six months, available from now until 06.07.2026. Great cinema for €4.80. Here’s a selection for your summer entertainment: Basking in after-sun, we start with Aftersun, a slightly faded vacation hotel in the late ’90s, with a pool, karaoke, and group outings. Eleven-year-old Sophie spends the summer holidays with her father, Calum. Years later, she grapples with the memories of that trip with the person she could never fully understand as a child. Charlotte Wells tells this story with remarkable calm, turning what seems like an ordinary vacation into a film that stays with you long after it ends.

Sorry, Baby brings a counterweight to summer lightness. Literature professor Agnes has experienced something terrible, but life goes on and passes her by. Over several chapters, she searches for a way back to herself. A film carried by dark humor and the power of friendship. We continue in Brazil in 1977 with The Secret Agent. Marcelo, played by Wagner Moura, is in his early 40s and on his way from São Paulo to Recife, where he hopes for a fresh start. But his past quickly catches up with him, drawing him into intrigue, corruption, and power struggles. A rich film with time jumps, sharks as evidence, a cameo by Udo Kier, and reassuringly unsettling social commentary. Here, lively and dark go hand in hand. If you prefer to spend summer with the car windows down, watch Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. On the last day of school in 1976, teenagers drift through Austin, cruise through the night, look for the next party, and enjoy the moment between obligations and summer break. The film doesn’t need a big plot. It’s about hanging out, growing up, and an endless summer. If that still isn’t reason enough, at least tune in for Matthew McConaughey’s blow-dried side part. Now on Mubi. Curtains closed, fan on, popcorn in hand. Your Mubi summer awaits.

Text: Inga Krumme / Stills: Aftersun, Sorry, Baby, The Secret Agent

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This offer is valid until 06.07.2026. New customers and former members are eligible for a 70% discount on the monthly price for six months, bringing the subscription to 4.80€ per month.

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There are dates that have been seared into Europe’s collective memory. 11.07.1995 is one of them. On that day, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica became the site of a genocide. Around 8,000 Muslim men and boys were systematically killed that night and in the days that followed by Bosnian Serb troops under the command of Ratko Mladić. It remains the gravest war crime Europe has witnessed since the end of the Second World War, committed in full view of the international community, which had promised protection but failed to provide it. Srebrenica had, after all, been declared a safe area by the United Nations. On the 31st anniversary of the genocide, photographer Armin Smailovic, who regularly works for ZEITmagazin, and director Branko Šimić bring this story to the stage of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation as a staged reading with music (11.07.2026).

Their project is based on more than 15 years of research. The source material consists of conversations with one of the few survivors and with a Dutch UN soldier, whose statements later became central to the tribunal in The Hague. These interviews first became a play for the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, then a radio play for Deutschlandfunk, and now this reading, which structures three perspectives side by side: those of the victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Jens Harzer, an actor at the Berliner Ensemble, and Vernesa Berbo, known from the Gorki Theater, read the texts. And Amira Berbo accompanies them musically. What emerges is a dense tapestry of sound with speech, documentary material, and photography. Rather than explaining, it seeks to remember what a genocide can mean.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Sandra Kühnapfel, Armin Smailovic

Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung, Stresemannstr.90, 10963 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Srebrenica will be presented as a musical and theatrical reading on 11.07.2026. Following the performance, artists will speak with Dr. Kathrin Jurkat about their work with the material.

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Becoming creative and sharing experiences: Oscar Murillo’s current exhibition at Minsk in Potsdam is no conventional art show. Born in Colombia in 1986, Murillo became a darling of the art market in his early twenties. Today, the Turner Prize-winning artist is less interested in setting records in auction houses and arts pages than in engaging people through his participatory approach to painting. His infectious openness can be experienced at Minsk Potsdam until 09.08.2026. Titled Collective Osmosis, the exhibition takes its name from a scientific concept describing the movement of liquid through a membrane to achieve equilibrium. Murillo uses the term as a metaphor for what art can accomplish at its best, softening the boundaries between inside and outside, between institution and city, and between people themselves. Murillo’s new abstract paintings from the series Surge, Scarred Spirits, and Disrupted Frequencies enter into an unexpected dialogue with French Impressionist Claude Monet. In later life, Monet suffered from severe cataracts that cost him around ninety percent of his eyesight. Murillo interprets both the illness and the transformations in Monet’s late work as symbols of society’s blind spots. In Potsdam, he poses the question of how these might be overcome collectively today.

And not only at Minsk, but also across the Havel at the Museum Barberini. The exchange extends beyond institutional and physical boundaries. For the exhibition, Murillo has created new paintings that are shown at both venues, while key works by Claude Monet are on view at Minsk for the very first time. On 04.07, visitors can join a special Murillo Meets Monet tour linking the two locations. The best part? The exhibition aims to exist beyond theory and philosophical discourse. Participation is not only welcomed but encouraged. Every day except Tuesday, visitors can pick up a brush during the free Collective Painting sessions on Minsk’s terrace and become part of an ever-growing communal artwork. As part of Murillo’s Social Mapping project, canvases were sent to institutions across Germany, inviting people to contribute their own drawings and marks. These canvases have now returned to the exhibition, carrying traces of their journeys and the people who engaged with them. Art is conceived as a cycle rather than a one-way street. Those who visit on the last Sunday of the month can take advantage of Minskday and enjoy free admission to the museum. And every Saturday, fresh pizza is served by Brenda, the oven sculpture created by artist Gabriel Chaile, while Cafébar Hedwig welcomes guests with a new culinary concept. It all feels perfectly in tune with the exhibition’s ethos: gathering, eating, talking. In Murillo’s world, exchange happens on every level.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Clemens Poloczek, Linus Müllerschön

Das Minsk, Max-Planck-Str.17, 14473 Potsdam; map
Oscar Murillo – Collective Osmosis until 09.08.2026

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