We recently joined forces with the International Booker Prize, global film distributor and streaming service MUBI and the award-winning bookseller Foyles for a very special live event and screening.

The organisers of the International Booker Prize, which celebrates the best in fiction translated into English from another language, want to encourage people who love translated fiction to explore more global cinema, and vice versa, so they have invited the team at MUBI to match six great films from around the world with the books on the shortlist for this year’s prize. The curated films reflect the themes or tone of the relevant book and have been approved by each author.

On May 26, we hosted a special live event: an intimate Q&A featuring the winners of this year’s International Booker Prize 2023: Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter, and the book’s translator, Angela Rodel. The Q&A, hosted by writer and editor Sarah Shaffi, was followed by a screening of One Fine Morning, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (France, Germany, 2022), which MUBI has paired with Time Shelter.