From 02.-04.10.2026, Mubi Fest returns. Like last year, the hub is Silent Green, this time joined by Kino Arsenal. The program pulls you in, picks you up, and takes you straight to the cinema.
We’re kicking things off with the Berlin premiere of Coward, a queer Mubi Release. Its protagonist, Pierre, is desperate to find his place amid the trenches and frontlines of the First World War. At the front, he meets Francis, who is staging a play there. As the world collapses around them, a tender love story unfolds.
Hale County, Tag für Tag is a collaboration with C/O Berlin, inspired by the current exhibition “The Heart of the Matter”. Mubi and the gallery are screening the film by RaMell Ross. The theme remains the same: How is Black life represented in photography and film, and who holds the power to define it? Ross created a poetic documentary that follows the Black community in rural Alabama over five years.
At midday, we pick up where the previous evening left off at the Mubi Live Podcast, a conversation with director Lukas Dhont. His work is shaped by a fine-tuned sensitivity to themes such as gender, sexuality and empathy, and Coward is no exception. Talking with Mubi podcast host Rico Gagliano, he discusses surprising inspirations and his career so far.
For fans of fashion and excess, next up is Making Marie Antoinette, the documentary about Sofia Coppola’s iconic film, directed by none other than her mother, Eleanor. At the talk When Artwork and Trailers Become Iconic, Mubi’s Creative Studio explains what makes a good trailer. What does it take to captivate an audience in just a few minutes? Afterwards, actor Langston Uibel and Matthijs Wouter Knol (Director of the European Film Academy) swap notes on their favorite trailers.
If Saturday (03.10.) still isn’t enough for you, head to what is probably the year’s best sapphic production. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is pure ecstasy: fake blood on pastel and clever play with clichés. This contemporary take on 80s slasher horror aesthetics offers meta layers galore, dyke drama, a truly great scene with Kentucky Fried Chicken and, of course, gay icon Gillian Anderson alongside Hannah Einbinder, with wonderfully offbeat chemistry.
We start Sunday (04.10.) in the snow. Nuisance Bear is a documentary about the troubles of the polar bear. It makes the bear its protagonist and, along the way, upends prevailing conventions of nature documentaries. An Inuit guide leads us through the film and through the question of who shared landscapes actually belong to. Clear answers are in short supply.
The finale is the animated film Bouchra. Bouchra, a Prada-wearing lesbian filmmaker and coyote, sets out to make a film about her life in New York. In doing so, she confronts the tangled dynamics of past relationships and reaches out to her mother, who still lives in Casablanca. Moving between live action and 3D animation, the film bids farewell to old ideas and representations of queer identity and generational crises, without glossing over them.
That’s just the tasting menu; the full program is on the website. So, take a look, book your tickets, and head to the cinema. It’s going to be a celebration.
Text: Inga Krumme / Credits: Mubi, Sofia Coppola
Mubi Fest
02.–04.10.2026. Find the full program here.
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