Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

Guy Pearce leads an emotionally-raw Australian prison drama from first-time writer-director Charles Williams. A young man (newcomer Vincent Miller) is transferred from juvenile to adult prison, where he is taken under the wing of both Australia’s most de ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

Selected as Sweden's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, THE LAST JOURNEY is the most-watched documentary in Swedish history. When Lars Hammar retires after 40 years as a beloved French teacher in Köping, he envisions a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Under roaring fighting jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya and Andrey stay behind, defiantly finding beauty amid destruction. Armed ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil) directs a powerful political drama spotlighting the ongoing political unrest in Tehran. Shot entirely in secret, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG centres on a family thrust into a life of parano ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

MELBOURNE PREMIERE: National Indian Film Festival of Australia.

Based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, the residents of the town look ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

From the best-selling author of ‘Wonder’, the book that sparked a movement to “choose kind,” comes the inspirational next chapter. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Mar 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Jacques Tati directs and stars in dual French comedy classics as the colourful and clumsy Monsieur Hulot. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! Directed by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead) more then a decade before he changed cinema forever with the release ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday February 21, 6.30pm. Join Writer/ Director Sally Aitken for a post-film Q&A. A film of joy and wonder, EVERY LITTLE THING offers profound truths in a deceptively simple story. What does it mean to care for another, and w ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with HARD TRUTHS; a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

From Oscar winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, The Host, Snowpiercer) comes a satirical science fiction comedy starring Robert Pattinson, ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Mar 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Japanese master Satoshi Kon’s hugely influential animated masterworks are celebrated on the silver screen. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Mar 2025

From Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape), BLACK BAG is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Mar 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Nominated for six Academy Awards and winning for Best Original Screenplay, Sidney Lumet (Network, Serpico) directs Al Pacino ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 14 Mar 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday March 14, 6.30pm. Join directors Tony Wilson and Cam Fink for a post-film Q&A. ANGE AND THE BOSS tells the improbable story of all-time great Hungarian striker Ferenc Puskas and his time in Australia. Barely able to s ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Mar 2025

MDFF OPENING NIGHT FILM: Tuesday July 15, 6.30pm. MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday March 15, 3.30pm (SOLD OUT). Join director Fiona Cochrane for a post-film Q&A. Screening is in collaboration with the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. A charming portra ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Mar 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Enjoy an evening with Hollywood greats Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant across a pair of classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

65TH ANNIVERSARY! Deranged Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to replace the disfigured visage of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) with ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. A wondrous journey, through ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

Reunited for the first time since The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star in THE RETURN, a gritty ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

Matthew Rankin directs an absurdist triptych, winner of major awards at Cannes, Toronto, and Melbourne Film Festivals. In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each othe ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Russell Crowe leads Peter Weir's 19th century naval epic. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

Gokogu is a small, ancient Shinto shrine in Ushimado, Japan. Home to dozens of street cats, it is also known as Cat Shrine. While Gokogu looks peaceful on the surface, it is also the epicentre of a sensitive issue that divides the local community, as som ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Layla (Talia Zucker) and her husband Jack (Ashley Zukerman) live on an isolated cattle property hundreds of miles ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, director Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT finds young teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond) arriving in ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Apr 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Comedy legends lead back-to-back cult hits! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

Making her acting debut, musician Benee stars alongside Ed Oxenbould (The Visit) in this touching New Zealand coming of age/musical.

Christchurch, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

Amidst the lunch rush of a frantic Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Opening Date: Friday, 4 Apr 2025

A triumph of imagination,  Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Apr 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! A coming-of-age tale set in Italy and a romantic robot bound for outer space lead modern classics from Pixar. LUCA is set on the Italian Riviera, where an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disgui ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Detectives Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and Mills (Brad Pitt), one a seasoned cop, the other a relatively new one, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Apr 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s two biggest films back-to-back. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER Q&A: Sunday March 30, 5.30pm. Join Richard Roxburgh and Peter Greste at our special Q&A screening of THE CORRESPONDENT. Based on the incredible true story of Australian war correspondent Peter Greste's arrest and imprisonment. Richard ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! A musician from San Francisco finds meaning to his life when he starts to care for dozens of ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Apr 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The original theatrical cut of Ridley Scott's original outer-space thriller followed by James Cameron's Director's Cut of his chest-bursting sequel, presented back-to-back! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

RESTORATION! Original Theatrical Cut re-release! Ridley Scott’s ambitious modern classic blends science fiction, horror and groundbreaking special effects with a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Apr 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The rise of and resulting PLANET OF THE APES is captured in dual classics 40+ years apart. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

80TH ANNIVERSARY! A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Stanley Kubrick directs two war classics that are among the legend’s best. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The original claustrophobic sci-fi horror hit followed by its thrilling prequel!

John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) follows a research ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

45TH ANNIVERSARY! A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Francis Ford Coppola's iconic Vietnam war epic returns to the cinema screen, revisited by the director to create ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

60TH ANNIVERSARY! Lemmy Caution, an American secret agent, is sent to ALPHAVILLE, a futuristic city on another planet. His mission ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! A double dose of Witches!

Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Pride Month with back-to-back queer coming-of-age cult favourites! ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Dive into Hayao Miyazaki’s magic with this fantasy adventure double feature of anime classics PRINCESS MONONOKE and NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Jun 2025

MOVIE EPIC! James Cameron’s classic 1989 sci-fi epics returns to the big screen fully restored.

The crew of an experimental, high-tech ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Jul 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Step into the wonderful world of Wes with two of the Nova favourite’s biggest hits. ... more

Opening Date: Monday, 7 Jul 2025

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

A ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Bastille Day with two French New Wave essentials from revered auteur Jean-Luc Godard. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-school screening! Beat the back-to-school blues with a night of contemporary high school hits. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025

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: Tuesday, 5 Aug 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Join us for a festival of Fellini as two essentials from the Italian master return to the silver screen. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two iconic Studio Ghibli films back-to-back. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 19 Aug 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Richard Linklater's first two installments of the 'Before Trilogy' return to the screen for a romantic double feature.

Jesse ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 Aug 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Steven Spielberg fulfills Stanley Kubrick’s vision of technological change that is as prevalent today as it was upon release. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! "Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?" Idiosyncratic director Robert Eggers declared his unique approach to filmmaking with his dread-soaked feature debut THE WITCH (a breakout Cinema Nova exclusive) in 2015 before hoisting his relentle ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Makoto Shinkai (Suzume) directs a pair of gorgeous animated romantic fantasies. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Everything is not as it seems in a pair of auteur-driven erotic-thrillers that take cues from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! A Matthew Broderick double feature featuring the star in two of his most iconic roles. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Burt Lancaster leads Luchino Visconti’s 19th century Italian epic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Oct 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Jake Gyllenhaal delivers two of his finest performances across a pair of chilling psychological thrillers. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Oct 2025

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, 28 Oct 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Andrei Tarkovsky directs a landmark sci-fi adventure. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in a pair of Oscar winners. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present two animated Japanese hits. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Nov 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Akira Kurosawa directs a powerful drama, winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1976 Academy Awards. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Brian De Palma (Scarface) directs a pair of arrestingly stylish ‘80s erotic thrillers as only he can. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Jordan Peele teams with Daniel Kaluuya for a pair of modern horror classics. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Orson Welles directs and stars in a pair of cinema classics! ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Dec 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Philip Kaufman (writer – Raiders of the Lost Ark) directs a four-time Oscar-winning historical adventure. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Mar 2025

The Tall Man is back with a vengeance. Armed with his lethal band of flying silver spheres, the deadly mortician ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Mar 2025

The zombies have returned! The horror begins again as mysterious barrels bounce off an Army transport as it passes through ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

As her brother stands trial for the killing of an outspoken New Orleans professor, inner-city schoolteacher Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan) ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

Remember Ben Willis? He's the fisherman who killed the boy who was driving the car when it went off the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

Danny Glover leads this electrifying sequel as a police lieutenant grappling with a pileup of mangled bodies found by his ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

The mad Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), the tormented Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and the beheaded Dr. Carl Hill ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

Dorothy finds that her old friends have been turned to stone and that urban blight has struck the Emerald City. ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

From filmmaker Tobe Hooper, the director responsible for 1974's original THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and starring Oscar-nominee Dennis Hopper, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Jun 2025

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Jul 2025

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this ... more