#FIRSTLOOK: MUBI PRESENT MARCH 2024 PROGRAMMING ADDITIONS

MUBI Canada have announced their March 2024 programming additions including films from female Cinematographers and Oscar winners!

FUNNY PAGES

Funny Pages (Comedy) – Streaming March 1
Dir. Owen Kline, 2022
Aspiring cartoonist Robert believes to be an artist is to suffer. So, he rejects his suburban life and drops out of school to work at a comic store and a public defender’s office. There he meets and becomes besotted by former low-level comic artist Wallace, leading him down a path of misadventures. Owen Kline’s feature directorial debut, Funny Pages, with cinematography by Sean Price Williams and produced by the Safdie Brothers, earned a spot in the 2022 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and received 2 Independent Spirit Award nominations in 2023.

MAMI WATA

Mami Wata (Drama, Fantasy, Thriller) – Streaming Exclusively on MUBI March 22
Dir. C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi, 2023
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land. Mami Wata won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography at Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

CALLING THE SHOTS: WOMEN CINEMATOGRAPHERS

In honour of Women’s History Month, MUBI is spotlighting the expertise and perspective of women working behind the camera in its new film collection CALLING THE SHOTS: WOMEN CINEMATOGRAPHERS. Women’s perspectives help shape diverse stories, and yet, women continue to be underrepresented in cinematography. These films showcase the beauty and technical achievement possible when women craft stories through their lens.

The Wonders (Drama) – Streaming March 8
Cinematography by Hélène Louvart, Dir. Alice Rohrwacher, 2014
An extraordinary summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters, in which the strict rules that hold the family together begin to break: due to the arrival of Martin, a German boy on a youth rehabilitation program, and also the community’s participation in the TV competition “Village Wonders.” The Wonders won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and was nominated for the Plame d’Or.

Thursday Till Sunday (Drama) – Streaming March 8
Cinematography by Bárbara Álvarez, Dir. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, 2012
As she and her family embark on a four-day holiday to the north of Chile, teenager Mazda slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up. Their journey that starts so cheerfully quickly acquires melancholy undertones. This will be their last trip as a family. Thursday Till Sunday won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012.

Madeline’s Madeline (Drama) – Streaming March 8
Cinematography by Ashley Connor, Dir. Josephine Decker, 2018
Sixteen-year-old Madeline has become an active member of an experimental theatre troupe. When its ambitious director pushes Madeline to weave her rich interior world and her troubled relationship with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. Madeline’s Madeline was nominated for 3 Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Female Lead.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

Oscar® night. A time for winners and losers, tears and cheers. A night of sweeps, surprises, and foregone conclusions. MUBI presents AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…, a film collection featuring winners and nominees from Oscars® past. It’s the perfect opportunity to brush up on your awards trivia, fill some of those viewing gaps, or convince yourself again that a certain film or performance was robbed.

Parasite (Drama, Comedy, Thriller) – Streaming March 8
Dir. Bong Joon Ho, 2018
Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed. The son Ki-woo is recommended for a well-paid tutoring job. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the Park family home for an interview. But following this first meeting, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait. Parasite won 4 Academy Awards including Best Director, won Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language at the Golden Globes, and received the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. It was the first non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

No (Drama) – Streaming Now
Dir. Pablo Larraín, 2012
With his first collaboration with Gael García Bernal, Pablo Larraín scored a true art-house hit. Shot on vintage video cameras, the film boasts a rare authenticity and its aesthetic of immediacy is nothing short of genius. No was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the Academy Awards, and won the C.I.C.A.E. Award at Cannes Film Festival.

Amy (Documentary, Biography) – Streaming Now
Dir. Asif Kapadia, 2015
A moving profile of the precocious talent and tragic death of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, this biographical documentary deflates the sensationalism that surrounded Winehouse throughout her short life—focusing instead on its subject’s artistry. Amy won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2016, and was named the National Board of Review’s Best Documentary in 2015.