August 11, 2026 – MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has unveiled the first set of stills for Andrew Haigh's (All of Us Strangers, 45 Years) highly anticipated new feature film A Long Winter, starring Fred Hechinger (Thelma, Gladiator II), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear, The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Caitríona Balfe (Belfast, Ford v Ferrari, Outlander), Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Warfare, Rocketman), and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Warfare, Reservation Dogs). The film will be screened later this Fall at the New York Film Festival (New York Premiere) and the Toronto International Film Festival (Canadian Premiere).
Set in the mountains as autumn draws to a close and a family prepares for the long winter ahead, A Long Winter has been adapted by Haigh from Colm Tóibín's acclaimed short story of the same name, and also stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, David Furr and Martin Freeman.
A Long Winter was shot on location in Alberta, Canada, with a creative team including cinematographer André Turpin (Mommy, Incendies), production designer Emmanuel Fréchette (Wayward, The North Water) and editor Jonathan Alberts (All of Us Strangers, 45 Years).
The film is produced by Tristan Goligher for The Bureau, Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev for Calgary-based Nomadic Pictures, and Michael Elliott. It was developed by MUBI and is co-financed by MUBI and Film4.
Andrew Haigh is an award-winning writer-director, whose critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers from Searchlight Pictures, received six BAFTA nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Haigh. The film won Best Picture and six other awards out of fourteen British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Haigh, and Best Supporting Actor for Paul Mescal. All of Us Strangers was also the recipient of four Gotham and three Independent Spirit Awards nominations. The LA Film Critics Association awarded Haigh with Best Screenplay for the film, while both The Guardian and EMPIRE named it the Best Film of 2024. Haigh's previous feature films include A24's Lean on Pete (2017), IFC's Sundance Selects' 45 Years (2015) for which Charlotte Rampling earned an Academy Award nomination, and his breakout hit, Weekend (2011).
For television, Haigh served as an executive producer, as well as the lead writer-director on HBO show Looking (2014-2016), starring Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett. He also directed all five episodes of the 2012 limited series The North Water for BBC & AMC, starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell.
Upcoming projects include an adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s book “Leonardo Da Vinci” for Universal which Haigh will write and direct. For television, he is set to write and direct a series about iconic American artist Keith Haring, based on Brad Gooch’s biography “Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring”, with Working Title producing.
A Long Winter will be released in cinemas in the US.
About Bureau
The Bureau is a BAFTA-winning production company known for its work with some of the UK’s most distinctive filmmakers — including Asif Kapadia, Harry Wootliff, Aleem Khan, and Andrew Haigh.
Past films include Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci; After Love, for which Joanna Scanlan won a BAFTA for Best Actress; and True Things, starring Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke. The Bureau previously produced Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, for which Charlotte Rampling received an Academy Award nomination. The Strays, produced for Netflix, launched at number one on the platform in the UK and spent its opening weeks in the top ten across 89 territories.
Queen at Sea, directed by Lance Hammer and starring Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, recently premiered in Competition in Berlin, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize and the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, shared by Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall. The film will be released in UK cinemas by Curzon.
Upcoming projects include Rhys Marc Jones’ debut feature Black Church Bay, a mystery drama starring Tom Cullen and Joe Locke, which has been acquired by Vertigo for UK and Ireland release; Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter, an adaptation of a Colm Tóibín story, starring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, produced for MUBI and co-financed by Film4; and Corinna Faith’s Unspeakable, with Eliza Scanlen and Essie Davis, which recently finished production.
About MUBI
MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI creates, curates, acquires and champions visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world.
MUBI is a place to discover ambitious films, from both iconic directors and emerging auteurs. All carefully chosen by MUBI’s curators. With MUBI GO, members in select countries can get a free ticket every week to see the best new films in cinemas. And Notebook explores all sides of cinema culture — both in print and online.
Some previous and upcoming MUBI Releases include: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow, Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, Ira Sachs’ Passages, Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves, and Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave.
MUBI Productions include Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland starring Sandra Hüller, Andrew Haigh's A Long Winter, Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother, Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind starring Josh O'Connor and Felix van Groeningen's Let Love In.
Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, MUBI is the biggest community of film lovers anywhere, with members across 190 different countries. MUBI is headquartered in London, with 15 offices across the world and over 400 employees.
MUBI also owns The Match Factory, a premier international sales company for independent cinema, acquired in 2022. The Match Factory operates alongside MUBI, focusing on world sales for exceptional films that fall outside MUBI's own distribution slate.
MUBI additionally owns a majority stake in leading Benelux film distributor Cinéart.
About Film4
Film4 Productions is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Publicly owned yet commercially funded, Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most distinctive and innovative talent in UK and international filmmaking, both new and established. Since its inception in 1982 Film4’s films have won a collective 43 Oscars® and 97 BAFTAs.
In recent years Film4’s critically acclaimed projects include Oscar®, BAFTA and Venice Golden Lion winning Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos), Oscar®, BAFTA and Cannes Grand Prix winning The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer), Savanah Leaf’s BAFTA winning Earth Mama, Molly Manning Walker’s Un Certain Regard winning How to Have Sex, and Andrew Haigh’s BIFA winning All of Us Strangers.
Recent releases include Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, which won the Silver Lion at Venice, Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, Philippa Lowthorpe’s H is for Hawk, Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound, Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, box office hit We Live in Time (John Crowley) and Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding. Upcoming cinema releases include Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, Molly Manners’ Extra Geography, Ashley Walters’ Animol, and Rafael Manuel’s Filipinana.
New productions include debuts by Alice Birch (Sweetsick), Jonathan Schey (Everybody Wants To F**k Me), Shalini Adnani (Our Share of Sand), Bijan Sheibani (The Arrival), as well as new films by Andrew Haigh (A Long Winter), Mike Leigh (Tender Loving Care), Tomas Alfredson (Séance on a Wet Afternoon) and Lenny Abrahamson.
Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most ground-breaking and successful UK films including Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Asif Kapadia’s Amy, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Sarah Gavron’s Rocks, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch, Chris Morris’ Four Lions, Shane Meadows’ This is England, and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin.
For more information visit: https://www.film4productions.com/
About Nomadic Pictures
Chad Oakes & Mike Frislev founded Nomadic Pictures in 1995. Their feature film debut, “Hugo Pool” (Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr.) was the audience’s favourite at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, they have developed, financed and produced over Ninety Seven (97) television & film projects worth a combined $1.5 Billion in production and remains one of the most active production companies in North America.
In addition to their Seventy-One (71) Emmy Nominati[;ons and countless awards, Oakes and Frislev have won Three Emmy Awards, including “The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie” (Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers) (Showtime), AMC's first scripted Original mini-series, “Broken Trail” (Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church), and an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, Television Critic’s Award and a Producers Guild Award for Best Mini-series with “Fargo” (Billy Bob Thorton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Alison Tolman) (FX/MGM). Some of Nomadic’s other notable productions are “House of David” (Amazon/Wonder), “One Mile” (Republic/Kapital), “My Life With The Walter Boys” (Sony/Netflix), “Wilderness” (Amazon), “Hell On Wheels” (AMC), “Van Helsing”, “The Order”, “The I-Land”, “Wu Assassin’s”, “Ghost Wars”, “The Imperfects” (all for Netflix), “Copper” (BBC America )“LAND" (Focus Features) and “Klondike” (Discovery).
2026 will see the release of “House of David” Season 2 (Amazon/Wonder) and Andrew Haigh’s CDN/UK feature “A Long Winter” (Mubi/Film4).
