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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026

One voice. One unforgettable spectacle. SIA: NOSTALGIC FOR THE PRESENT is a bold, genre-defying experience that trades pop pageantry for pure artistry. Awe-inspiring vocals, breathtaking choreography, and iconic performances, captured cinematically and s ... more

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday July 24 & Saturday July 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 futu ... more

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Aug 2026

50TH ANNIVERSARY! In this lauded satire, veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he's being put out to ... more

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2026

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026

Stéphanie (Léa Drucker), an investigator at the French National Police General Inspectorate (IGPN), is assigned Case 137, involving Guillaume Girard ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday August 16, 1:00pm. Join Pet Rescue's James Lolicato and Dr Di for a post-film Q&A discussion. CatVideoFest is a hilarious, family friendly, feature length compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 2026

The ultimate collabs of DeNiro and Scorsese ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Filmed in Technicolor and billed as 'The Wonder Musical of the Future!' (whatever that is), Dr Seuss is the writer behind this 1953 musical fantasy of a boy who travels to a magical world where a diabolical teacher has enslaved children t ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Ken Russell (The Devils, Women In Love) directs ALTERED STATES, an experimental surrealist sci-fi horror from 1980 starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban and Drew Barrymore. Hurt stars as Harvard professor Edward Jessup, who exp ... more

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse) directs CURE; the Japanese answer to David Fincher's Se7en, which was released two ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Luis Buñuel, the father of cinematic surrealism, directs a satirical dark comedy following a group of middle class individuals attempting a seemingly impossible task: dining together. Faced by continual interuptions in an increasingly ill ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! A Palme d'Or nominee, Leos Carax (Annette) directs Denis Lavant (Beau Travail), Edith Scob (Eyes Without A Face), Eva Mendes, Michel Piccoli and Kylie Minogue in a surrealist dark fantasy centred around the mysterious Mr Oscar (Lavant), w ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! David Lynch's surreal psychological thriller returns to the cinema screen fully restored. Defying simple explanation, it has been called both a masterpiece and an enigma. The last feature completed by the filmmaker, Lynch also acted as ci ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday August 6, 6.45pm. 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. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! From The Wachowskis comes one of the most underrated films of the 21st century, SPEED RACER. Based on the classic Japanese anime series from the 1960s, Emile Hirsch is Speed; an eighteen year old race car driver aspiring to become the wor ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Based on Horace McCoy's novel, Sydney Pollack directs the rarely-screened 1969 psychological drama THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? Nominated for 9 Academy Awards, the film stars Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, Susannah York, Michael Sarrazin, Gig ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Winner of the 2021 Palme d'Or, Julia Ducournau (Raw) directs the uncategorizable phantasmagoria of TITANE. Agathe Rousselle stars as Alexia, a seductive and direct dancer working in contemporary France. Emotionally and physically impenet ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Possibly the most unhinged and bizarre film from Tom Cruise's oeuvre since the actor became a major movie star, VANILLA SKY is a psychological thriller directed by Cameron Crowe and based on Alejandro Amenábar's Spanish feature Abre Los O ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 2026

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Friday, 2 Oct 2026

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy. Telling the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026

Various languages, English subtitles

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2026

Visually dazzling adventures from Argento and Tarsem

Various languages, English subtitles

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2026

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ... more

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Nov 2026

The ultimate "that could never happen here" double ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2026

Two folk horror favourites from director Robert Eggers ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2026

Paweł Pawlikowski (COLD WAR, IDA) returns to the screen with FATHERLAND, the third film in his spiritual trilogy on identity, guilt, family, and love in the tumultuous landscape of post War Europe. At the height of the Cold War, writer Thomas Mann (Hanns ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

A world-famous children's author under threat, a battle of wills in the wake of scandal, and one chance to make ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Dec 2026

Revenge thriller masterpieces from Welles and Wilder ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2026

Ingmar Bergman's 4-time Oscar winning masterpiece

Various languages, English subtitles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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