EXCLUSIVE: Mubi is heading to the Windy City with its 3rd Mubi Fest, which will host the Chicago premiere of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Running July 10-12 in Chicago, Mubi Fest 2026 will feature writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, as part of this year’s ‘Better Together’ programming, “a series of cinematic pairings that reflect and refract one another, exploring relationships as a shifting bond shaped by loyalty, intimacy and power. Each film might echo or even complicate the other, but they’re always better together.”
The festival highlights also include a preview of Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning, starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning and Pamela Anderson; as well as a live score performance of Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind with composer Rob Mazurek; plus a special scented screening of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (a la John Waters’ Odorama screenings).
Also on the weekend’s schedule are special repertory 35mm screenings of Lurker, featuring a Q&A with director Alex Russell; a 10th anniversary singalong of Lonely Island’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping; and a 25th anniversary screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven.
Mubi Fest Chicago will once again be hosted at The Salt Shed, The Music Box Theatre and the Gene Siskel Film Center, with the outdoor Mubi Market returning to the Salt Shed, featuring local businesses and an exclusive Mubi merch pop-up. Tickets and the full schedule are available online. More cities will be announced soon.
Jamie Bell, Tracy Letts, Riley Keough, Lukas Gage and Callum Turner in ‘Rosebush Pruning’ (2026)
The event comes one year after Mubi came under fire for a $100 million investment from Sequoia Capital, a private equity firm that also invested in Israeli defence-tech startup Kela. In a statement, Mubi CEO Efe Cakarel emphasized that Sequoia has no oversight with the British streaming service, nor does Mubi fund Kela.
“We condemn all acts that harm innocent civilians and reaffirm the right of all people to live in peace and safety. The immense suffering, displacement, and starvation of the Palestinian people is a humanitarian catastrophe that must end,” said Cakarel. “We stand firmly against war and tyranny in all forms, and in support of the dignity and freedom of all people.”