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MUBI's April Lineup Brings Three Award-Winning Films and More to Stream this Spring
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From left to right: Ksenia Mironova in My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 (2024), Sope Dirisu in My Father's Shadow (2025), and Susanne Wuest in Sound of Falling (2025). Now streaming this April on MUBI.
MUBI is opening in April with a lineup that goes well beyond the usual streaming fare. Three films arriving this month each carry serious festival credentials, and each tells a story that most platforms would never touch.
The first, Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 Last Air in Moscow, is available now. Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature My Father's Shadow follows on April 10, and Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling closes the month on April 24.
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Ksenia Mironova in a scene from My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow. Image Courtesy of MUBI
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1- Last Air in Moscow arrives at a moment when its subject feels impossible to ignore. Loktev spent months with the journalists of TV Rain, an independent Russian news station labeled a foreign agent by the Kremlin.
The film follows them through their final days in Moscow and into exile after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It won Best Documentary from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Gotham Awards, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards. A second part, titled Exile, is expected later this year.
Godwin Egbo, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, and Sope Dirisu in a scene from My Father's Shadow (2025). Image Courtesy of MUB.
My Father's Shadow made history before it even reached streaming. The film became the first Nigerian production ever selected in the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it earned a Camera d'Or Special Mention.
Directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and starring Sope Dirisu (Slow Horses), the story follows two young brothers and their estranged father as they navigate Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. It went on to win the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut and two Gotham Awards.
Hanna Heckt, Susanne Wuest, and Lena Urzendowsky in a scene from Sound of Falling (2025. Image Courtesy of MUBI.
Sound of Falling, arriving April 24, won the Jury Prize at Cannes and served as Germany's official submission for the Academy Awards.
Director Mascha Schilinski follows four girls, each from a different era spanning the 1910s to the 2020s, all connected to the same farmhouse in northern Germany. The film holds a 95 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 91 on Metacritic.
MUBI April 2026 Programming
April 1
Suspended Time, directed by Olivier Assayas
Bamako, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Bye Bye Brazil, directed by Carlos Diegues
Clifford, directed by Paul Flaherty
UHF, directed by Jay Levey
Dear Diary, directed by Nanni Moretti
Something Wild, directed by Jonathan Demme
See You Next Tuesday, directed by Drew Tobia
Thank You Very Much, directed by Alex Braverman
State of Grace, directed by Phil Joanou
Showgirls, directed by Paul Verhoeven
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Under the Sun, directed by Vitaly Mansky
Close Relations, directed by Vitaly Mansky
Putin's Witnesses, directed by Vitaly Mansky
Gorbachev. Heaven, directed by Vitaly Mansky
Eastern Front, directed by Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko
April 3
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, directed by Julia Loktev
April 10
Lizard, directed by Akinola Davies Jr.
My Father’s Shadow, directed by Akinola Davies Jr.
April 15
Tatsumi, directed by Eric Khoo
April 17
Cold Tropics, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Eletrodoméstica, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Green Vinyl, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Friday Night Saturday Morning, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Atropia, directed by Hailey Benton Gates
Endless Cookie, directed by Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
April 22
Submarino, directed by Thomas Vinterberg
April 24
Son Long, My Son, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Sound of Falling, directed by Mascha Schilinski
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