As first reported by our friends at The Film Stage, MUBI has announced the titles arriving on their platform in January 2025. Included is the SVOD premiere of Victor Erice’s acclaimed film CLOSE YOUR EYES, the first digital release of Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’ PEPE, and the music documentary CHARLI XCX: ALONE TOGETHER.

Here’s the full list:

January 1

Little Odessa, directed by James Gray | First Films First

• Synopsis: Long separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.

The Protagonists, directed by Luca Guadagnino | First Films First

• Synopsis: An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

January 10

Pepe, directed by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias: A Double Bill

• Synopsis: A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

Cocote, directed by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Nelson Carlod de los Santos Arias: A Double Bill

• Synopsis: A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ COCOTE follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returning home to attend his father’s funeral. When he discovers that a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes that he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder. It’s an unthinkable act — especially for him, an Evangelical Christian. But as pressure mounts, he sees few ways out. Questions of faith, tradition and honor course through this electrifying film, which, seemingly at the speed of thought itself, jumps between film formats, colors, and aspect ratios, radically envisioning a community torn asunder by senseless violence.

January 17

Buddy, directed by Heddy Honigmann | Animals

• Synopsis: Walking in the forest without being able to see, coming down the stairs or going shopping when one is paralysed, falling asleep with post-traumatic stress disorder: for the protagonists of Buddy, all of this is made possible by the presence of an assistance dog at their side. Edith, 86 years old and blind since adolescence, remembers all of the dogs she has had with her, and their portraits—even if she cannot see them—cover the walls of her house.

Close Your Eyes, directed by Víctor Erice | Latest & Greatest

• Synopsis: Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Los Reyes, directed by Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff | Animals

• Synopsis: Chola and Fútbol are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.

The Watchman, directed by Ali Cherri | Brief Encounters

• Synopsis: Halil spends his nights in a watchtower waiting for an enemy that doesn’t arrive, until suddenly strange lights appear on the horizon. Ali Cherri creates a universe in which a suspended and void time opens the door to ghostly presences from a past made of war. Shot with an extreme and detailed precision of vision and sound, The Watchman is an urgent film that deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the omnipresent war rhetoric.

January 24

Touch of Crude, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn | Four Ads by NWR

• Synopsis: When a woman moves into a new house she is visited by a mysterious entity, a Black Box, which upon peering through its peephole unlocks multiple universes, each viewed from a different woman's perspective. Short film created for the Prada SS23 women's collection.

Beauty is Not a Sin, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn | Four Ads by NWR

• Synopsis: When a young woman attends confession, she admits her fault of resisting temptations, causing the priest to experience a revelation by sharing in her ultimate sin.

The Here After, directed by Magnus von Horn

• Synopsis: When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.

January 28

Charli XCX: Alone Together, directed by Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler | Latest & Greatest

• Synopsis: Discover the process behind Charli XCX’s 2020 quarantine album "how i'm feeling now", created in 40 days during the COVID-19 pandemic, including its semi-collaborative nature with her community of online fans.