#FIRSTLOOK: MUBI PRESENT “BETWEEN TIDES: ASIAN AVANT-GARDE” COLLECTION

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service, and production company, evolves its ongoing partnership with CHANEL Culture Fund to launch the new Between Tides: Asian Avant-Garde collection, curated in collaboration with M+—Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong S.A.R.

The collection will spotlight ten avant-garde works from across Asia, brought together through a distinctive curatorial approach. This partnership is the first to bring M+’s moving image initiatives to a global streaming audience, and further deepens CHANEL’s ongoing support for emerging filmmakers and the landscape of cinema in Asia.

Spanning different parts of the region, the collection celebrates pioneering voices that have shaped Asian cinema, featuring numerous filmmakers whose image-making practices extend beyond the confines of commercial convention.

CHANEL Culture Fund has partnered with M+—Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture—since 2022. With the House’s support, M+ has introduced new initiatives: M+ Restored, a film restoration programme dedicated to preserving Hong Kong S.A.R’s cinematic heritage; The Asian Avant-Garde Film Circulation Library, an extensive research and collection-building endeavour that celebrates generations of pioneering Asian artists in the film industry; M+ Rediscoveries, a recurring series that showcases cinematic treasures and restored classics, including emerging Asian artists’ and experimental cinema across Asia, to audiences; and CHANEL also supports the annual Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival.

The Between Tides: Asian Avant-Garde collection will launch globally on MUBI on January 16, 2026.

Yana Peel, President of Arts, Culture & Heritage at CHANEL, said: “CHANEL Culture Fund supports generations of filmmakers across Asia—from preserving Hong Kong’s cinematic heritage with M+, to championing creative freedom and technical innovation at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. It is a tremendous honour to highlight the region’s vital importance in cinema across MUBI’s 190 markets, bringing Asia’s immense filmmaking talent to the international stage and celebrating the moving image across its analogue origins and its digital future.

The Between Tides: Asian Avant-Garde collection features:

Dead Knot (Sek Kei and John Woo – 1968)
Available to stream globally

Untitled 77-A (Han Ok-hee – 1977)
Available to stream globally

Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik – 1977)
Available to stream globally excluding US

Oxhide (Liu Jiayin – 2005)
Available to stream globally

Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2015)
Available to stream globally excluding UK, Switzerland, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Norway

Pebbles (Vinothraj P.S. – 2021)
Available to stream globally excluding India

Tellurian Drama (Riar Rizaldi – 2020)
Available to stream globally

An Asian Ghost Story (Bo Wang – 2023)
Available to stream globally

Notes of a Crocodile (Daphne Xu – 2024)
Available to stream globally

Việt and Nam (Minh Quý Trương – 2024)
Available to stream globally excluding Vietnam, Spain and Ex-Yugo