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First Light
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
Set in the remote mountains of the Philippines, Sister Yolanda (Ruby Ruiz) leads a peaceful existence at a convent in northern Luzon, helping the sick and dying at a local hospital. But when she reads a young man his last rites following a construction ac ... more
Invite, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
ADVANCE SCREENING: Saturday July 4, 6.45pm. Olivia Wilde directs and stars in THE INVITE, a fiercely energised dinner party dramedy filled with insecurities, ... 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
Highlander
Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Initially a box office bomb which was later discovered by audiences on home video, Christopher Lambert stars as ... 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
Colours Of Time (La Venue De L’Avenir)
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
Moving between contemporary Normandy and the final years of the 19th century, COLOURS OF TIME is a French drama that brings together family, history, and artistic curiosity. When four estranged cousins inherit a long-abandoned house in Normandy, their in ... more
Common Wealth
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 6:40pm Join us for a post-film discussion live on stage with director Kane Guglielmi and special guests Rayna Fahey (Prosper Australia), Thomas Walker (Think Forward), and Kane Jackson (moderator). An intimate yet gl ... more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: NT Live
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
Academy Award-nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation ... more
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
One voice. One unforgettable spectacle. Sia: Nostalgic for the Present - a bold, genre-defying experience that trades pop pageantry for pure ... more
Tenor: My Name is Pati
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
From New Zealand documentarian Rebecca Tansley, TENOR: MY NAME IS PATI is bursting with humour, heart and soaring performances. Starting off in the churches of South Auckland and finding themselves on the stages of Paris, Pene and his brother Amitai Pati ... more
Tokyo Drifter
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
60TH ANNIVERSARY! Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo (Tetsuya Watari) is free of his bloody life after his boss decides to dissolve ... more
Wizard of the Kremlin, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026
A political thriller about the behind-the-scenes rise of Vladimir Putin, THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN stars Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, and Jude Law. In the early 1990’s, the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse made Russia both a space of chaos and filled with ... 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
Blue Trail, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026
ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday July 24 & SaturdayJuly 25, 5.00pm & 8.45pm, and Sunday July 26, 7.50pm. Winner of the Silver Bear at Berlin, THE BLUE TRAIL is a beautifully shot adventure through the heart of the Amazon. In a not-so-distant dystopian future, w ... more
Bon Voyage, Marie
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026
Starring a charming cast led by Hélène Vincent (When Fall is Coming) and Pierre Lottin (The Stranger), BON VOYAGE, MARIE is a tender and heartwarming story of a family coming together. When 80-year-old Marie (Vincent) announces a family trip to Switzerla ... more
Le Samouraï
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026
RESTORATION! A classic staple of French noir, LE SAMOURAÏ follows the enigmatic Jef (Alain Delon) after he’s witnessed carrying out ... more
Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026
This feature documentary from Fiona Cochrane (Whoopie Blues) charts Rod Quantock’s five-decade career and his tireless efforts to communicate the perils of neoliberalism and the urgency of climate change through humour. His journey illustrates the buildin ... 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
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Aug 2026
MELBOURNE PREMIERE SCREENING: Wednesday July 29, 6.00pm, 6.15pm (Selling Fast!). Be one of the first to see Jane Schoenbrun’s new slasher TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (your ticket includes a Camp Miasma collectable VHS candy box and themed cocktai ... more
Cities of Tomorrow
Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Aug 2026
A four-part documentary that reframes the climate crisis not as a distant catastrophe, but as an urgent urban reality. With cities responsible for over 70% of global emissions, they are both the frontline of environmental collapse—and the crucible of its ... more
Blade Runner: Final Cut + Dune (1984)
Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2026
Iconic science fiction from the early 80s ... more
Blue Velvet
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026
40th ANNIVERSARY! A psychological horror starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern, David Lynch's acclaimed 1986 neo-noir has been called 'a masterpiece' by both fans and critics. The discovery of a severed human ear foun ... more
CatVideoFest 2026
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026
CatVideoFest is a hilarious, family friendly, feature length compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours ... more
Sex
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026
Screening as part of the Oslo Trilogy (LOVE, SEX, and DREAMS) Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically connected films are reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colour’s Trilogy. Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their ... more
Taxi Driver and Raging Bull
Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 2026
The ultimate collabs of DeNiro and Scorsese ... more
Boogie Nights
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
RESTORATION! Everyone's given one special thing...
The adult entertainment industry epic that not only identified director Paul Thomas Anderson as the ... more
Chronology of Water, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
Oscar-nominee Kristen Stewart makes her feature debut with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER an unflinching portrait of womanhood, survival, and artistry, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir. Looking to escape her abusive upbringing, Lidia (Imogen Poots) finds ... more
Love
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
Screening as part of the Oslo Trilogy (LOVE, SEX, and DREAMS) Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically connected films are reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colour’s Trilogy. Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), a doctor, and Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), a ... more
Rivals of Amziah King, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
Led by a career-best performance from Matthew McConaughey, THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING is a crowd-pleasing story about honey, family, and music, with a knockout debut performance from Angela LookingGlass. Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, the ch ... more
Tony
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026
Matt Johnson (Blackberry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) adapts Anthony Bourdain’s seminal memoir Kitchen Confidential in TONY, which stars Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) as the renegade chef. In 1976, a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Sessa) has his ... more
Barry Lyndon
Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026
Kubrick directs cinema's finest rise and fall ... more
& Sons
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
Co-written by Oscar-winner Sarah Polley (Women Talking), & SONS is an intimate story of family, identity, and connection starring Bill Nighy (Living), George MacKay (The Beast), and Noah Jupe (Hamnet), based on David Gilbert’s titular novel. World-renown ... more
Boyz n the Hood
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
35th ANNIVERSARY! Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Ice Cube (Friday), and Angela Bassett (Strange Days) deliver breakout performances in writer-director John Singleton’s Oscar-nominated drama set within Los Angeles' gang culture, BOYZ N THE HOOD. Tre (G ... more
Dreams
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
Screening as part of the Oslo Trilogy (LOVE, SEX, and DREAMS) Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically connected films are reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colour’s Trilogy. Johanne (Ella Øverbye) documents her intense crush on her French teacher. Her ... more
I Want Your Sex
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, The Doom Generation) is back with I WANT YOUR SEX, a fresh, fun, and sexy look at art and murder, led by Olivia Wilde (The Invite) and Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza). When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job ... more
On the Road
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Veneno (Victor Prieto Simental), a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco (Osvaldo Sanchez), a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself, and convinces ... more
Palestine 36
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026
In 1936, as villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf moves between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, caught between the world he knows and a future being fought for. As the revolt spreads and the Bri ... 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
Maigret and the Dead Lover
Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026
Writer/director Pascal Bonitzer (The Stolen Painting) brings Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret into the modern age as the detective attempts to ... more
Silenced
Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026
From International Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Selina Miles and Blayke Hoffman, SILENCED is a powerful, emotional and urgent documentary that challenges the devastating flaws maintaining the status quo within the justice system. After #MeToo broke the ... 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
Broken English
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2026
From the inventive documentarian duo Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth, The Extraordinary Miss Flower) comes BROKEN ENGLISH, an intimate and ingenious exploration of rock icon Marianne Faithfull. A posterchild of counterculture and lead ... 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
Possession and The Babadook
Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026
Suspiria (1977) and The Fall
Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2026
Jennifer's Body and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026
DOUBLE BILL: Demonic Double! Join us to watch cult classics JENNIFER’S BODY and the 1992 film BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ... more
Fox, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Oct 2026
Drawing on Japanese and Korean folktales, Dario Russo’s debut THE FOX is an absurdly comic Australian folktale starring Jai Courtney, Emily Browning, and Damon Herriman, as well as the voices of Olivia Colman and Sam Neill. Nick (Courtney) is a small-tow ... more
Pressure
Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Oct 2026
Detailing the tense 72 hours before D-Day, PRESSURE is a powerfully performed exploration of the weather’s involvement in the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history, incredibly led by Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser (Rental Family) and Adam Scott (Blue M ... more
V For Vendetta and Civil War
Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Nov 2026
The ultimate "that could never happen here" double ... more
Lighthouse, The and The VVitch
Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2026
Two folk horror favourites from director Robert Eggers ... more
Grey Gardens and Sans Soleil
Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 2026
DOUBLE FEATURE! Twentieth century documentaries that broke the mould and pushed the genre into new spaces.
GREY GARDENS is a documentary ... more
Eyes Wide Shut
Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2026
MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... more
Touch of Evil and Double Indemnity
Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Dec 2026
Revenge thriller masterpieces from Welles and Wilder ... more
Howl's Moving Castle + Laputa Castle in the Sky
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026
DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more
Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 2026
DOUBLE BILL: It's a hair-burning, ice-slipping, glass-decoration-crushing, iron-to-the-face double feature as Macauley Culkin stars as Kevin McAllister, the innocent young ... more
Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 2026
DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more
Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical Cut)
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2026
Big Book Club THE ODYSSEY Live
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
Please note that this event has commenced and sales have concluded; this web page remains for the benefit of ticketholders ... more
Big Book Club THE ODYSSEY Online
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
Please note that this event has commenced and sales have concluded; this web page remains for the benefit of ticketholders ... more
MDFF26 Jimmy Somerville: Smalltown Boy + Shorts
Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 3.45pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. The story of frontman Jimmy Somerville, the rebellious singer who became the English voice of gay and minority rights. From Bronski Beat to The Commu ... more
MDFF26 Out Laws + Queer Shorts
Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 5.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Friedel Dausab challenges Namibia’s criminalisation of same-sex love in a landmark court case. The film traces colonial and religious roots of anti-q ... more
MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 3
Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 10.15am. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. CROC COUNTRY (Sinead Reynold 20:05) In tropical North Queensland, locals must share ... more
MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 4
Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 1.10pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. KALEIDOSCOPE (45m) short docs. GOING COASTAL (16:15, Henry Smith) — Couple's simple life climbing, gardening, and birding on remote Flinder ... 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
MDFF26 Bound By Distance
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 8.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Six Australian runners and their support crew tackle the world’s longest, hardest unsanctioned race — the 550km Speed Project from LA to Las Vegas. ... more
MDFF26 Shared Table Regional Heros
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 6.45pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Four unsung migrant heroes in regional Victoria open their kitchens to a travelling film crew. What begins as a quest for connection becomes a deepl ... more
MDFF26 Wide Horizons
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 6.20pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. An intimate portrait of critically acclaimed regional dance company Dancenorth based in tropical North Queensland. The film follows the company on a ... more
MDFF26 Everything We Need Is Here
Opening Date: Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
Drawn by a primal instinct to forage, Tiffany wanders Manitoba’s boreal forests in search of wild mushrooms — and something far deeper. Living with complex PTSD, she finds in Nature a refuge that offers calm, clarity, and connection. In Winnipeg’s threate ... more
MDFF26 How To Kill A Mermaid
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday July 16, 8.50pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A heart-wrenching true-crime documentary re-examining the 2020 death of 18-year-old Linnea Mills during a cold-water scuba dive in Montana’s Glacie ... more
MDFF26 Whistleblower + David McBride: Declassified
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday July 16, 6.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. WHISTLEBLOWER (Marc Bauder, 91 min): Follows Africa’s most important whistleblower Jean-Jacques Lumumba, former NSA intelligence analyst Daniel ... more
MDFF26 Dead Parents Club
Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026
INTRODUCTION: Friday July 17, 6.40pm. Join us for a live in-cinema for an introduction. A hybrid documentary exploring parental loss through real stories interwoven with the orphan trope in popular culture. Participants perform iconic sc ... more
MDFF26 No Limbs No Limits
Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday July 17, 8.30pm. Join the filmmaker live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Born without arms or legs in Melbourne, Nick Vujicic and his family fought Australia’s education system to change disability integration nationwide. T ... more
MDFF26 Spirit Of The Photobooth
Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026
Q&A SCREENING: Friday July 17, 6.15pm. Join two of the Melbourne-based participants in the film - Chris Sutherland and Jessie Norman - live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A of this work-in-progress film. An exclusive, early look at a warm documentary ... more
MDFF26 Docs After Dark
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
SESSION INTRODUCTION: Saturday July 18, 8.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. THE MAN WHO SAW THEM ARRIVE (Zev Howley, 71 min): In January 1968, the quiet life of Melbourne resident Colin Cameron was shattered following a myster ... more
MDFF26 Love Letter to the Unseen + Sensing Home
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 5.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. LOVE LETTER TO THE UNSEEN (45 min, Josh Murphy) follows youth conservationist Spencer Hitchen on his journey of discovery to understand the imminen ... more
MDFF26 Making Infinity
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
An intimate observation of the creative process of Australian & Chinese artists navigating simmering tensions & their cultural differences; in an attempt to create a contemporary performance ritual that involves the entire audience moving in unison to mak ... more
MDFF26 Silver Screamers
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 6.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary following spirited senior citizens who step far outside their comfort zones to create their own horro ... more
MDFF26 Somewhere After
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 3.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Seven Australians share their isolation hopes, dreams, and fears via video calls early in the pandemic. Three years later they revisit those re ... more
MDFF26 Tycho! + Pushing the Boundaries
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 10.15am. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. TYCHO! Beyond the Baton (Stephan Wellink, 95 min): The little-known personal story of child prodigy Maestro Tommy Tycho — Holocaust survivor, pian ... more
MDFF26 Wim Wenders Retrospective
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026
A retrospective of documentary shorts from acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders (Perfect Days, Paris, Texas). ROOM 666 (1982, 50m) Shot during the ... more
MDFF26 Australian Dream
Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026
Six underdog surfers from a tiny village in Portugal travel to Australia and take on the world elite in one of the country’s most iconic surfing championships, embodying determination and unexpected triumph. ... more
MDFF26 Language Of Light (Session 1)
Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 4.10pm. A program bringing together three distinct photographic voices spanning music culture, feminist social documentary, and contemporary diaspora identity. ... more
MDFF26 Language Of Light (Session 2)
Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 6.20pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A second program featuring powerful photographic storytelling across Indigenous identity, ocean ecosystems, and global conflict zones. ... more
MDFF26 Nova 78
Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026
A time capsule from the underground: restored footage from the legendary 1978 Nova Convention featuring William Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, and other counterculture icons, reimagined for today’s audiences. ... more
MDFF26 Resisting Caste(ism) In Australia
Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 12.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Filmmaker Dr Vikrant Kishore travels 3,500 kilometres across Australian cities, speaking with Dalit community members and allies about persisten ... more
MFW From Dusk Till Dawn
Opening Date: Friday, 31 Jul 2026
This exhilarating collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino starts as a brutal crime thriller before detonating into full-blown horror carnage, as two outlaw brothers take a family hostage and head for the Mexican border.George Clooney, ... more
MFW Mad Max 2
Opening Date: Friday, 31 Jul 2026
Monster Fest is proud to present the film that set the gold standard for post-apocalyptic action. George Miller’s Mad Max 2 is a relentless, high-octane cinematic landmark that shaped a genre and turned its leather-clad drifter into one of Hollywood’s big ... more
MFW Leatherface: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre III
Opening Date: Saturday, 1 Aug 2026
The man in the face mask is back - and his chainsaw is freshly sharpened and hungry for human meat. This criminally underrated sequel builds on the Sawyer family mythos and delivers plenty of kills, cannibals, and corpses in a relentless blast of roadside ... more
MFW Race With The Devil
Opening Date: Saturday, 1 Aug 2026
Satanic cults, high-speed RV chases, and Warren fucken Oates—it doesn’t get any more awesome than RACE WITH THE DEVIL. This white-knuckle blast of ‘70s paranoia turns a fun couples road trip into a relentless fight for survival when they witness a human s ... more
MFW The Hills Have Eyes
Opening Date: Saturday, 1 Aug 2026
Remakes don’t usually hit this hard but Alexandre Aja’s brutal, blood-soaked retelling of Wes Craven’s desert vacay nightmare cranks up the terror, tension, and gore, unleashing a hillbilly mutant free-for-all. Fun for the whole family, guaranteed. When t ... more
MFW Christine
Opening Date: Sunday, 2 Aug 2026
In 1983, John Carpenter and Stephen King, two titans of horror, collided in a nightmarish film about a sentient 1958 Plymouth Fury that becomes fixated on a bullied teen, killing anyone who comes between them… and the world was never the same again.Keith ... more
MFW The Hitcher
Opening Date: Sunday, 2 Aug 2026
No film captured the nightmare scenario of what happens when you pick up the wrong hitchhiker better than Robert Harmon’s relentless, blood-soaked road terror, The Hitcher. Featuring the perfectly cast Rutger Hauer as the world’s worst travelling companio ... more
MFW The Wraith
Opening Date: Sunday, 2 Aug 2026
Charlie Sheen tears through a small desert town leaving behind a trail of dead bodies, mangled cars, and Sherilyn Fenn’s modesty in this action-packed ‘80s tale where supernatural revenge takes the form of a ghostly Dodge Turbo Interceptor.After drifter J ... more
