The Oscar-nominated The Secret Agent, the BAFTA-winning My Father’s Shadow, and Sound Of Falling lead the movies on MUBI this April.
Get ready for some brilliant movies on MUBI. April brings a remarkable collection of new cinema. The platform will showcase award‑winning international storytellers and distinctive voices from around the world. Highlights include Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gripping, political thriller The Secret Agent. In addition, see Akinola Davies Jr.’s powerful and deeply personal debut, My Father’s Shadow. There is also Mascha Schilinski’s haunting multi‑generational epic Sound of Falling, Germany’s official Academy Award submission. Documentary lovers can dive into Julia Loktev’s urgent and intimate My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow. Meanwhile, animation fans will be moved by the inventive and deeply heartfelt Endless Cookie.
This month also features a celebration of Christian Petzold’s cinema with Love Is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold, plus a curated trio of Jonathan Demme classics in Windows to the Soul. Rounding out the lineup is Cord Jefferson’s sharp, funny, and compassionate American Fiction.
MUBI RELEASES: THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Academy Award-nominated The Secret Agent (2025) is a gripping political thriller set in Brazil in 1977, at the height of the military dictatorship. The film follows Marcelo (Wagner Moura), a former professor who arrives in Recife hoping to reunite with his son while attempting to evade persecution in an increasingly authoritarian climate.
Premiering in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the film won Best Director for Mendonça Filho and Best Actor for Wagner Moura, and has since earned four Academy-Award nominations, including Best Picture, alongside Golden Globe wins for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor.
The Secret Agent (Filho, 2025) – April 17
MUBI RELEASES: MY FATHER’S SHADOW
From filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. comes his acclaimed debut feature My Father’s Shadow (2025), a semi-autobiographical drama set against the political turmoil of Nigeria’s 1993 election crisis. Following an estranged father and his two sons, family tensions unfold against a city on the edge of political upheaval as they navigate Lagos over the course of a single turbulent day,
Premiering in Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a Caméra d’Or Special Distinction, Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies were also awarded the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Set against a defining moment in Nigeria’s modern history, it offers an intimate portrait of a family shaped by political upheaval.
My Father’s Shadow (Davies Jr., 2025) – April 10
MUBI RELEASES: SOUND OF FALLING
A haunting, multi-generational chronicle, Sound of Falling (2025) by Cannes Jury Prize-winner Mascha Schilinski traces the lives of four girls, who each grow up on the same farm in northern Germany across different periods of the twentieth century. As the house changes over time, echoes of earlier lives begin to surface, linking the girls’ experiences across generations.
Premiering in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the film was later selected as Germany’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Expansive in scope yet rooted in a single place, Sound of Falling masterfully dissects memory and the ways history lingers in the spaces we inhabit.
Sound of Falling (Schilinski, 2025) – April 24
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow (2024) is a riveting vérité chronicle of independent journalism under siege. Structured in five chapters, the documentary follows reporters at the Russian independent broadcaster TV Rain as the country slides further toward authoritarian control in the months surrounding the invasion of Ukraine.
Filmed with the urgency and intimacy of Loktev’s handheld camera, the film captures journalists navigating mounting censorship and the threat of being labelled “foreign agents”. Premiering at the Berlinale and New York Film Festival, it went on to win Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was Oscar-shortlisted and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Chapters 1-3 | My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Loktev, 2024) – April 3
Chapters 4-5 | My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Loktev, 2024) – April 3
LOVE IS A LABORATORY: THE FILMS OF CHRISTIAN PETZOLD
Elegantly spare and always emotionally resonant, Love Is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold explores love as a testing ground, where desire and circumstance rarely align. Petzold’s characters rift through worlds shaped by history, displacement, and quiet upheaval, searching for connection while wrestling with guilt, memory, and reinvention. With cool precision and an undercurrent of melancholy, Petzold crafts intimate dramas that treat romance not as fantasy, but as a fragile, revealing force that exposes who we are when certainty falls away.
Transit (Petzold, 2018) – Now Streaming
Jerichow (Petzold, 2008) – April 17
Barbara (Petzold, 2012) – April 17
Phoenix (Petzold, 2014) – April 17
Undine (Petzold, 2020) – April 17
Afire (Petzold, 2023) – April 17
LATEST & GREATEST: ENDLESS COOKIE
A heartfelt and wildly inventive animated documentary, Endless Cookie (2025) explores the bond between two half-brothers — one Indigenous, one white — whose lives stretch from 1980s Toronto to the remote First Nations community of Shamattawa. Through a collage of stories, memories, and conversations, the film traces a family history shaped by survival, humour, and the realities of Indigenous life in Canada.
Premiering at Sundance 2025 and later screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Endless Cookie is structured as an unfolding conversation, with the film’s anecdotes brought vividly to life through psychedelic animation that responds playfully to every digression and voice.
Endless Cookie (Scriver & Scrivener, 2025) – April 17
WINDOWS TO THE SOUL: THREE BY JONATHAN DEMME
Windows to the Soul: Three by Jonathan Demme demonstrates Demme’s uncanny ability to illuminate human nature in all its wondrous complexity. From the bone-chilling presence of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to the offbeat energy of New York romance in Something Wild (1986) and the raucous chaos of mob life in Married to the Mob (1988), Demme examines the soul of humanity through his eccentric creations.
The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) – Now Streaming
Something Wild (Demme, 1986) – April 1
Married to the Mob (Demme, 1988) – April 1
AMERICAN FICTION
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction (2023) follows Black writer Thelonius “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) as he skewers the absurdities of the publishing world with a rageful sense of wit and mischief. Equal parts satire and heartfelt comedy, Jefferson looks at how race shapes art and audience, capturing Ellison’s journey through family, love, and self-discovery with both humour and empathy.
American Fiction (Jefferson, 2023) – April 1
MUBI UK & IRELAND APRIL 2026
01/04/2026 | Married to the Mob | Jonathan Demme | Windows to the Soul: Three by Jonathan Demme
01/04/2026 | Something Wild | Jonathan Demme | Windows to the Soul: Three by Jonathan Demme
01/04/2026 | This Is Not a Film | Mojtaba Mirtahasebi, Jafar Panahi | Cinema by Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
01/04/2026 | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson
03/04/2026 | My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow | Julia Loktev, Anna Nemzer
10/04/2026 | Lizard | Akinola Davies Jr.
10/04/2026 | My Father’s Shadow | Akinola Davies Jr. | MUBI Releases
14/04/2026 | Revanche | Götz Spielmann
15/04/2026 | Tatsumi | Eric Khoo
17/04/2026 | Jerichow | Christian Petzold | Love is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold
17/04/2026 | Barbara | Christian Petzold | Love is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold
17/04/2026 | Phoenix | Christian Petzold | Love is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold
17/04/2026 | Undine | Christian Petzold | Love is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold
17/04/2026 | Afire | Christian Petzold | Love is a Laboratory: The Films of Christian Petzold
17/04/2026 | The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | MUBI Releases
17/04/2026 | Endless Cookie | Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | Latest & Greatest
22/04/2026 | Submarino | Thomas Vinterberg
24/04/2026 | Sound of Falling | Mascha Schilinski | MUBI Releases
24/04/2026 | Agon | Giulio Bertelli
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