Inaugural Edition Of MUBI Fest London To Take Over Hackney Picturehouse This November

Global distributor, streaming service and production company MUBI is pleased to announce that MUBI FEST London, the immersive cinema event for film lovers, will be coming to London from 13 to 15 November 2026 at Hackney Picturehouse.

MUBI FEST London will be a weekend-long celebration of cinema inviting Londoners to watch exciting previews of MUBI Releases, recent festival highlights, and a curation of iconic cinema gems. Alongside the film programme, guests can hear from leading filmmakers and cultural voices in attendance; experience events that merge music and cinema in innovative new ways; catch free shorts programmes; and eat, drink and dance with good company.

The festival will also bring the cinema experience beyond the screen, with live music, panel talks, social events and more, including a custom-built MUBI Library where you can explore MUBI’s publishing output, including NOTEBOOK magazine and books from MUBI Editions. 

Throughout the weekend, attendees can stock up on snacks and popcorn from the bar, and enjoy award-winning Caribbean food from Original Flava now available at Hackney Picturehouse.

Tickets for all screenings/events are on sale now!

Friday, 13 November

• Kicking off the festival will be one of the first UK screenings of Rose, featuring an award-winning performance by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), followed by a Q&A with director Markus Schleinzer. 
• Also showing is the new 4k restoration of Donnie Darko (2001) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the cult classic, as well as a live podcast recording with the Evolution of Horror on the horror of adolescence. 
• To mark the release of Her Private Hell (2026), join us for a special screening of Nicolas Winding Refn’s breakthrough film Drive (2011), followed by the fourth edition of MUBI and Crack Magazine’s Underscore, a series of music events inspired by film. Through DJs and art, the event will explore Refn’s distinctive marriage of sound and vision, where pulsating synths and stylised pop are as integral to his cinematic world-building as strobed neon and ultraviolence.

Saturday, 14 November

• Enjoy a preview screening of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur (2026), winner of this year’s Cannes Grand Prix, in partnership with the London Review of Books. 
• Fresh from its London Film Festival premiere, Lukas Dhont’s sweeping World War 1 romance Coward (2026) arrives following its joint Best Actor win at Cannes. This special screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-screenwriter Angelo Tijssens and lead actors Valentin Campagne and Emmanuel Macchia.
• Screening highlights also include Sophy Romvari’s tenderly-assembled semi-autobiographical debut Blue Heron (2025), presented in partnership with Irish storytelling platform Seanchoiche, with a curation of stories to be shared after the screening; Park Chan-wook’s erotic thriller masterpiece The Handmaiden (2016), and a special 50th-anniversary screening of Horace Ové’s landmark Pressure (1976), widely regarded as the first Black British feature-length film of the post-war era, accompanied by a panel discussion celebrating five decades of Black British cinema.
• Diego Céspedes will join us for a pre-screening Q&A for his film The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025), before leading a panel for the Gay Times & MUBI Queer Short Film Prize, championing the next generation of LGBTQ+ filmmakers alongside the prize-winning directors Lyndon Henley Hanrahan (Sunday Lunch), Daisy Ifama (Rap Baby) and Caleb J. Roberts (Purebred).
• Free live talks focused on the creative industries, with speakers from Dazed and It’s Nice That, with more information to come.
• A screening of Jack Hazan’s semi-fictionalised biographical documentary centred on David Hockney, A Bigger Splash (1973).
• Michael Patrick Jann’s mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), starring Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards and Brittany Murphy.

Sunday, 15 November

• Closing the MUBI FEST London weekend is a special preview screening of celebrated filmmaker Andrew Haigh’s (All of Us Strangers) latest film, A Long Winter (2026), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
• Also playing is one of the first UK screenings of Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall (2026), capturing Geese frontman Cameron Winter’s solo piano performance at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall. Shot on 35mm and 16mm, this immersive portrait of one of music’s most exciting emerging talents is not to be missed.
• The London premiere of Nuisance Bear (2026), the Sundance-winning documentary exploring human-wildlife conflict, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jack Weisman and Producer Teddy Leifer, alongside the striking animated Bouchra (2025) from Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, exploring queerness and familial expectations from a unique Y2K aesthetic, featuring a pre-recorded Q&A with the filmmakers.
• Marking 100 years since its initial release, a very special screening of Faust F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror featuring a live soundtrack curated by one of contemporary music’s most inventive producers Danny L Harle, who has worked with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and PinkPantheress.  For this one-off performance, Harle reimagines the silent classic through a curated collection of sounds, compositions and musical sketches, drawing on both his own original material and music from his personal collection. 
• A screening of Frederick Wiseman’s observational documentary, The Store (1984), exploring luxury retail and consumerism through an examination of the American department store.
• Get hands-on with our SCRT® cap customisation workshop, an interactive live event hosted by East London-based streetwear brand SCRT, where you can personally style, alter, and modify caps.