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Exit 8

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Apr 2026

Based on the hit phenomenon game, EXIT 8 is psychological horror from Genki Kawamura (producer of Monster, Your Name., Weathering with You). When a man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself lost in an endless maze of subway tunnels, he quickly realises that ... more

Gummo

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Apr 2026

KOKO RECOMMENDS! RESTORATION! Nova's Film Club host Koko presents Harmony Korine's directorial debut, which shocked audiences and critics in 1997, two years after Larry Clark's incendiary Kids, written by Korine, took the world by storm. ... more

Jean Valjean

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Apr 2026

Grégory Gadebois and Éric Besnard (Delicious) reunite for JEAN VALJEAN, a new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, charting the origin story of protagonist Jean Valjean. 1815. Provence, France. In the peaceful village of Digne, there’s a rumour th ... more

Back to the Future

Opening Date: Friday, 24 Apr 2026

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE ‘The Comeback Tour’ Event Screenings To celebrate the runaway success of Matt Jonshon’s time-travel homage, we’ll be running limited back-to-back screenings of NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE and BACK TO THE FUTUR ... more

Alien

Opening Date: Sunday, 26 Apr 2026

SAVE THE DATE! Alien Day is here. April 26 celebrates planet LV-426 as where the Xenomorph creatures were first discovered. Original Theatrical Cut re-release! Ridley Scott’s ambitious modern classic blends science fiction, horror and groundbreaking spec ... more

Casino

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Apr 2026

MOVIE EPIC! What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...

Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) directs a tale of greed, deception, money, power, and ... more

Devil Wears Prada 2, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Apr 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday April 29, 6.45pm. To celebrate the return of Runway Magazine, join us from 5:30pm in the Nova foyer for a Zine Market, featuring an array of local artists courtesy of Sticky Institute. After almost twenty years, Meryl Streep, ... more

Hokum

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Apr 2026

Adam Scott leads Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM, a terrifying horror set in the remote Irish countryside. When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) looks to scatter his parents’ ashes at the inn where they had their honeymoon, the staff’s tales of an ancient w ... more

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Apr 2026

From Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg comes IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY, a touching look at a life and legacy of a life cut tragically short. When young star Jeff Buckley released his first album ‘Grace’, he’d taken the world by storm. After ... more

Gore Street, Fitzroy

Opening Date: Sunday, 3 May 2026

MEET THE FILMMKAER: Sunday May 3, 4.15pm. Join filmmaker Zoe Coldham and a panel of guest for a post film discussion. Award-winning filmmaker Zoe Coldham’s documentary GORE STREET, FITZROY traces the history of Fitzroy’s storied residential street, locate ... more

Fifth Element, The

Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Super green! Luc Besson's visually spectacular intergalactic adventure THE FIFTH ELEMENT returns to Cinema Nova for a five-star fifth of the fifth screening event. Since its debut in 1997 THE FIFTH ELEMENT has gone on to become a cult favourite thanks to ... more

I Saw the Devil and A Tale of Two Sisters

Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two horrifying, psychological thrillers from one of Korea’s giants in the genre, Kim Jee-woon.

A dark and thrilling game ... more

All My Sons

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s ... more

DJ Ahmet

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Audience Award, DJ AHMET is a beautifully touching and comedic coming of age about life, love, and music. 15-year-old Ahmet (Arif Jakup) and his brother Naim (Agush Agushev) are growing up in a remote Macedonian village that’s ... more

Don't Be Prey

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

An edge-of-your-seat adventure into one man’s fight to reclaim his life by taking on the world’s most dangerous marathon swims, ... more

Lygon Street + Gore Street, Fitzroy

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Award-winning filmmaker Zoe Coldham’s documentary GORE STREET, FITZROY traces the history of Fitzroy’s storied residential street, located within Melbourne’s oldest suburb. ... more

EO

Opening Date: Friday, 8 May 2026

Save The Date – International Day of the Donkey. Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of the most acclaimed films of the year, EO, following a donkey who encounters all manner of people while journeying through modern Europe. ... more

Birthright

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday May 12, 6.00pm. Join director Zoe Pepper and stars Maria Angelico and Travis Jeffery for a post-film Q&A. Moderated by Flick Ford (RRR). Evicted and jobless, 30-something Cory (Travis Jeffery) and his heavily pregnant wife Jasm ... more

Fight Club and Starship Troopers

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two provocative satires, both overlooked at their time of release, which have endured to become timeless cult classics.

An ... more

Going Down

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Four friends leave their share house to explore the pool rooms, drag shows and bars of Sydney before crash-landing in Bondi. It’s the night before Karli goes to New York and the lives of this tight knit group will change to forever after a Girl ... more

Moulin Rouge!

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Baz Luhrmann's MOULIN ROUGE is a stunning high-wire act of performance, production and music that rewrote the musical rulebook for the 21st century. The year is 1899, and Christian (Ewan McGregor) has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revo ... more

Pike River

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

Melanie Lynskey (Yellow Jackets, The Last of Us) and Robyn Malcolm (Top of the Lake) star in PIKE RIVER, an inspiring true story of adversary in the face of loss. When the Pike River Mine disaster happened in 2010, it was the country’s worst mining disas ... more

Private Life, A

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

MOTHER’S DAY ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday May 10, 2.00pm. Captivatingly led by Jodie Foster, A PRIVATE LIFE is a French mystery co-starring Daniel Auteuil (Caché), Virginie Efira (Benedetta), and Mathieu Amalric (The Phoenician Scheme). ... more

Dreams and Where the Wild Things Are

Opening Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026

Tuck in and see where the night takes you ... more

Franz: Becoming Kafka

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday May 17, 10.45am. Oscar-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Green Border) returns with FRANZ, a chronicling of one of literature’s most studied authors, told through the same audacious surrealism present in his works. Longi ... more

Love and Other Catastrophes + Gore Street, Fitzroy

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Zoe Coldham’s documentary GORE STREET, FITZROY traces the history of Fitzroy’s storied residential street through a series of interviews with longstanding residents. 30th ANNIVERSARY! The trouble with love is you never know when it’s going to s ... more

Richest Woman In The World, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Isabelle Huppert stars as a fictionalised version of billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt in THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. Marianne Farrère (Huppert), head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte ... more

www.RachelOrmont.com

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Rachel Ormont (Betsey Brown) lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled, craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency ... more

Eugene Onegin: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 23 May 2026

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the ... more

Heat

Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 May 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Michael Mann directs Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in a cat-and-mouse thriller of a master thief who continues to evade arrest by police. As he plans his final heist, a dogged detective gradually closes in on the thief and his gang. ... more

H is for Hawk

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026

Q&A SCREENING: Wednesday May 13, 6.30pm. Experience the film at our special virtual Q&A with author Helen Macdonald on 13 May, before it hits cinemas on 28 May. Not to be missed! Based on a true story and a memoir of the same name, H IS FOR HAWK is a soar ... more

Power Ballad

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026

From writer/director John Carney (Sing Street, Begin Again) comes POWER BALLAD, a comedy about music, friendship, and the price of ambition starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. When Rick (Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star D ... more

Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The

Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON.

A ... more

Audience, The: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in encore screenings of the original West End production of The Audience, captured live in London in 2013, and featuring an exclusive new Q&A with key members of the cast a ... more

Colony

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

From the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula, Yeon Sang-ho, comes the South Korean horror COLONY. Professor Se Jeong (Jun Ji-hyun) attends a biotech conference-only to witness it spiral into catastrophe when a rapidly mutating virus is unleashed. As ... more

Sound of Falling

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize-winner SOUND OF FALLING is a beautifully woven tale of memory and girlhood, told across four generations of the same family. At different times throughout recent history, Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angel ... more

Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Petite Maman

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Céline Sciamma directs a pair of tender French dramas. ... more

Lost Boys, The and The Hunger

Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Jun 2026

Who knew sucking blood could be so sexy? ... more

Leviticus

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

Adrian Chiarella directs acclaimed supernatural thriller LEVITICUS, a tale of two star-crossed teenage boys living in small-town Australia who must ... more

Last Dream of Frida and Diego, The: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Jun 2026

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, ... more

Challengers and Saltburn

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Thirst-trap gems from Luca and Emerald.

From Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All) comes a ... more

Playboy of the Western World, The: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Jun 2026

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play ... more

Midsommar - Director's Cut

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Jun 2026

Written and directed by visionary filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary, Beau Is Afraid) comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. ... more

100 Nights of Hero

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Jul 2026

Playfully led by trio Maika Monroe, Emma Corrin, and Nicholas Galitzine, 100 NIGHTS OF HERO is a stylish, period-set fantasy adorned with love, lies, and lust. When her neglectful husband leaves their castle for 100 nights, Cherry (Monroe) finds herself ... more

Le Samouri and Tokyo Drifter

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

New Wave noir from France and Japan

French and Japanese languages, English subtitles

... more

Invite, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026

Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Olivia Wilde) are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. ... more

MDFF26 The Marbles

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

THE MARBLES is the story of the greatest art heist in history and the fight to change a great wrong. In 1801, Lord Elgin removed half of the Parthenon, causing a scandal among his contemporaries. What followed was a 200-year battle between Greece and the ... more

Amélie

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

SAVE THE DATE! Bastille Day Screening: Tuesday 14 July, 6.50pm. Vive la France! This Bastille Day, we’re playing the classic French whimsical romantic comedy! Enjoy a sparkling wine on arrival. Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world ... more

Clockwork Orange, A + Full Metal Jacket

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! It's a double feature of two Stanley Kubrick classics. Malcolm McDowell stars in the sci-fi satire based on the novel by Anthony Burgess. Gang leader Alex (McDowell) lives a life filled with crime, sex and the music of Ludwig Van Beetho ... more

Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich

Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two Academy Award winning, mind-bending black comedies from Charlie Kaufman

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND stars Jim Carrey ... more

Les Liaisons Dangereuses: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation ... more

Frida Kahlo

Opening Date: Saturday, 25 Jul 2026

Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her, but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows, and ... more

2001: A Space Odyssey

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Arguably one of the greatest films ever made, over 50 years ago director Stanley Kubrick released his ground-breaking sci-fi epic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The seminal classic has since been fully restored so a new generation of Novagoers can di ... more

North By Northwest and Strangers On A Train

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Aug 2026

DOUBLE BILL! Alfred Hitchcock directs two must-see thrillers that forever changed cinemas.

Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, ... more

Blade Runner: Final Cut + Dune (1984)

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2026

Iconic science fiction from the early 80s ... more

Taxi Driver and Raging Bull

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 2026

The ultimate collabs of DeNiro and Scorsese ... more

Barry Lyndon

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026

Kubrick directs cinema's finest rise and fall ... more

Wild At Heart and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 2026

The ultimate road trips from the trippiest directors ... more

Wake In Fright and Razorback

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 2026

In the outback, no one can hear you scream ... more

Donnie Darko and Leon: The Professional

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Star-making cult classics ahead of their time.

Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a dysfunctional, upper-middle ... more

Solaris and Persona

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! A science fiction epic, and a psychological drama from two of Europe’s greatest arthouse filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS ... more

Interstellar

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2026

MOVIE EPIC! In director Christopher Nolan’s vision of the future, the Earth is no longer a reliable source of food as crops continue to die out due to environmental catastrophe. One-time pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) discovers a plan by NASA to ... more