What to watch on MUBI in August 2026 – MUBI’s August 2026 highlights are led by Karim Ainouz’s Rosebush Pruning, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Ancestral Visions of the Future and a broad slate of curated cinema collections.
The August lineup leans into MUBI’s core identity: new international cinema, restored or rediscovered classics, filmmaker spotlights and tightly curated collections. For Australian streaming viewers, it is a month built less around volume and more around strong editorial curation.
There is no dedicated MUBI category on TV Central, so this monthly streaming report sits in the Streaming section with the regular MSR tag. The highlights below cover the key premieres, additional arrivals and special collections announced for August.
Rosebush Pruning
Streaming August 21. Karim Ainouz brings Rosebush Pruning to MUBI as a new exclusive release. The Italy, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom co-production stars Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Elena Anaya, Tracy Letts and Pamela Anderson.
The film is described as a bold and unpredictable portrait of a wealthy family shaped by privilege, desire and long-buried secrets. Ainouz is known for films including The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao and Motel Destino, and the release positions Rosebush Pruning as one of his most radical works to date.
Ancestral Visions of the Future
Streaming August 14. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese returns with Ancestral Visions of the Future, a France-Lesotho co-production and global exclusive on MUBI.
Mosese is known for This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. His new film creates a dialogue between past and future, exploring ancestral knowledge, memory and the broken promises of modern life through a poetic and immersive style.
The Assistant
Streaming August 14. Kitty Green’s The Assistant joins MUBI in August. The 2019 film follows Jane, a recent college graduate working as the youngest assistant at a major New York film production company.
Led by Julia Garner, the film tracks a single workday through quiet details, routine tasks and the constant presence of power. It remains a precise and unsettling study of workplace complicity, institutional silence and the cost of speaking up.
Additional arrivals
- Solo Sunny (1980) – streaming August 1: Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase’s East German landmark follows Sunny, a singer in a struggling variety troupe, as she navigates love, independence and self-determination.
- Linda Linda Linda (2005) – streaming August 1: Yamashita Nobuhiro’s much-loved film follows high school girls racing to learn and perform The Blue Hearts’ Linda Linda Linda at their school festival.
- Army of Shadows (1969) – streaming August 7: Jean-Pierre Melville’s French Resistance classic, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel, stars Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret.
- The Loneliness of Lizards (2025) – streaming August 21: Ines Nunes’s first feature is a Portuguese-Spanish co-production and a new arrival from European independent cinema.
Special collections
MUBI’s August collections include music, kaiju cinema, crime classics, coming-of-age stories and filmmaker spotlights.
- Tuning In: Sonic Journeys – spotlight from August 1: A music-focused collection featuring concert documentaries, musician portraits and films built around inventive soundscapes. Titles include Linda Linda Linda, Solo Sunny, Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul, Pavements and Sirat.
- Jean-Pierre Melville Spotlight – spotlight from August 7: A crime-cinema collection featuring Army of Shadows, Bob le Flambeur, Leon Morin, Priest, The Red Circle and Un Flic.
- Godzilla: King of Monsters – spotlight from August 14: A kaiju collection covering decades of Godzilla films, including Mothra vs. Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters!, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
- Joanna Hogg Spotlight – spotlight from August 14: A collection dedicated to the British filmmaker, including Archipelago, Exhibition, Caprice and Unrelated.
- Causing a Stir: Modern Provocations – spotlight from August 21: A collection including Rosebush Pruning, Crimes of the Future, Liberte, Attenberg, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Dogtooth.
- Athina Rachel Tsangari: A Double Bill – spotlight from August 21: A pairing of Attenberg and The Capsule.
- Hello World? – spotlight from August 25: A coming-of-age collection aimed at teenagers, students and twenty-somethings, featuring titles including Gasoline Rainbow, All These Sleepless Nights, Shiva Baby, Actual People, Tendaberry and Toxic.
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