MUBI Australia October 2026 highlights – Jane Schoenbrun’s new horror film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Wim Wenders’ acclaimed Perfect Days, Sean Baker’s breakout feature Tangerine and the final chapters of JAŸ-Z IN 8 lead MUBI’s October line-up.
The month is particularly strong for movie lovers. Alongside four headline releases, MUBI is programming a Halloween collection, a filmmaking spotlight, three films by Wim Wenders, six shorts by Mark Jenkin and a pair of Alex Ross Perry titles.
For Australian subscribers, the result is a tightly curated October schedule rather than an indiscriminate catalogue dump. New festival cinema sits beside modern classics and filmmaker collections, with the horror program expanding again in the week before Halloween.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – 2 October
After years of increasingly elaborate sequels, the fictional Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a young director determined to make her mark. Her research leads her to the reclusive star of the original film, opening a blood-soaked story of desire, fear and delirium.
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson lead a cast that also includes Jack Haven, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman and Patrick Fischler.
The film opened in Un Certain Regard at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and won the Queer Palm. Its arrival on MUBI anchors the service’s Halloween programming for the month.
Perfect Days – 9 October
Koji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a man who finds contentment in the orderly routine of his work caring for Tokyo’s public toilets. Away from work, he devotes his time to music, books and photographing trees.
A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveals more of Hirayama’s past. Wim Wenders builds the film around small observations, everyday rituals and the possibility of finding beauty in an apparently simple life.
Yakusho won Best Actor at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for the performance. Perfect Days was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Tangerine – 16 October
Sean Baker’s Tangerine unfolds across Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. After leaving jail, Sin-Dee Rella learns that her boyfriend and pimp Chester has been unfaithful. She and her best friend Alexandra set out across the neighbourhood to find him and learn what happened.
The film combines revenge, comedy and a vivid portrait of female friendship. Famously shot using mobile phones, it became a Sundance breakout and helped establish Baker’s distinctive approach to character and place.
JAŸ-Z IN 8 continues – 3 and 10 October
JAŸ-Z IN 8 is an eight-part conversation between JAŸ-Z and producer Rick Rubin. Each episode uses a song from the artist’s catalogue as the starting point for a wider discussion of creativity, influences, formative experiences and artistic innovation.
The project marks Rubin’s directorial debut. Cinematographer Bradford Young filmed the conversations in black and white over two days in Paris.
Episodes five and six arrive on 3 October. The final two episodes stream from 10 October, completing the series.
More films arriving in October
Rapture – 1 October
Iván Zulueta’s 1979 cult film follows a filmmaker whose obsession with cinema begins to consume his life. The Spanish production joins MUBI at the beginning of the month.
Possession – 2 October
Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill star in Andrzej Żuławski’s intense 1981 psychological horror film. Its mixture of relationship breakdown, paranoia and body horror makes it a natural centrepiece for October’s darker programming.
Suspiria – 2 October
Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic follows an American dancer who arrives at a prestigious German academy and discovers that something sinister lies beneath its carefully controlled exterior.
Shot Reverse Shot – 23 October
Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă’s 2026 short arrives as a MUBI Global Exclusive. The film joins the service late in the month.
Halloween Sleepover
MUBI’s Halloween Sleepover spotlight begins on 2 October and returns for Halloween week on 23 October. The collection ranges from contemporary horror to cult favourites and formally adventurous genre films.
The announced selection includes Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Possession, Rapture, Suspiria, Hereditary, The Babadook, The Love Witch and Titane.
Filmmaking Special – 9 October
The Filmmaking Special turns the camera back on the people and processes behind cinema. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and Rapture are joined by Bouchra, Hollywood 90028, LYNCH (one), The Watermelon Woman and further titles about filmmaking, performance and screen culture.
Three by Wim Wenders – 9 October
Perfect Days arrives alongside two defining Wenders films. Wings of Desire follows an angel observing life in a divided Berlin, while Paris, Texas tracks a man attempting to reconnect with his family after years away.
Together, the three films span decades of Wenders’ work while sharing his interest in solitude, movement, human connection and the spaces people inhabit.
Mark Jenkin Shorts – 16 October
Six short films by British filmmaker Mark Jenkin arrive together on 16 October. The collection includes:
- I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
- Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup
- Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape
- David Bowie Is Dead
- Tomato
- Cape Cornwall Calling/All the White Horses
The spotlight offers a compact survey of the filmmaker’s experimentation with landscape, sound, texture and handmade cinema.
Alex Ross Perry: Fact and Fiction – 23 October
MUBI pairs two very different Alex Ross Perry films late in the month. Listen Up Philip is a sharply observed comedy-drama about a difficult novelist, while Pavements plays with the boundaries of music documentary, biography and performance as it explores the band Pavement.
When the October highlights arrive
- 1 October: Rapture
- 2 October: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Possession, Suspiria and the first Halloween Sleepover selection
- 3 October: JAŸ-Z IN 8 episodes five and six
- 9 October: Perfect Days, Three by Wim Wenders and the Filmmaking Special
- 10 October: final two episodes of JAŸ-Z IN 8
- 16 October: Tangerine and Mark Jenkin Shorts
- 23 October: Shot Reverse Shot, Alex Ross Perry: Fact and Fiction and the returning Halloween Sleepover collection
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