MUBI, the global streaming service, film distributor, and production company, has announced a North American theatrical re-release of Amores Perros, the seminal debut feature from five-time Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman, 21 Grams). The film will be released in select theaters on June 12, followed by a nationwide expansion on June 19.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, a newly restored 4K version of Amores Perros premiered in the Cannes Classics selection at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where MUBI acquired worldwide rights, with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and actor Gael García Bernal in attendance. The restoration was carried out by the Criterion Collection, Estudio Mexico Films, and Altavista Films, with color supervision by Iñárritu and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon, Brokeback Mountain, Babel), and a new 5.1 surround mix by Jon Taylor at NBCUniversal StudioPost.
Widely regarded as one of the most important films of 21st-century cinema, Amores Perros premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, where it won the Grand Prize of the Critics’ Week, launching Iñárritu’s international career. A visceral, multi-narrative portrait of love, loss, and survival in Mexico City, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and remains a landmark in contemporary cinema.
A visceral portrait of love, loss, and survival in Mexico City, Amores Perros explores human chaos and tenderness through three disparate lives linked by a single fatal car crash: Octavio (Gael García Bernal), a teenager who enters the underground dog-fighting scene to flee with his sister-in-law; Valeria (Goya Toledo), a supermodel whose career is upended by the collision; and El Chivo (Emilio Echeverría), an ex-guerrilla turned hitman who witnesses the wreck, altering all of their fates in its aftermath.
Iñárritu says: “It’s incredible that these wild dogs are still barking 25 years later. I’m very excited that MUBI is bringing Amores Perros back to the big screen, especially for younger generations who never had the chance to experience it in theaters. This film changed the lives of all of us who made it.”
Beyond the screen, the anniversary expands with Sueño Perro, a multisensory installation resurrecting never-before-seen 35mm archival footage, currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) until July 26, 2026. Accompanying the celebration is a definitive retrospective artbook published by MACK, which compiles rare on-set photography, original storyboards, and Iñárritu’s handwritten production notes alongside text contributions from renowned filmmakers Denis Villeneuve and Walter Salles—offering a rich insight into the practice and process of one of the world’s leading filmmakers.
