Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

Anne Fontaine’s (The Innocents) BOLÉRO is a powerful story about the creation of an orchestral masterpiece; one that would come to define music within ballet. Starring an incredibly committed Raphaël Personnaz (Anna Karenina) and Jeanne Balibar (Cold War ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

Nova Exclusive! Bringing to life the remarkable story of the Australian-born Geraldine Flower through a suitcase full of passionate, heartfelt ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

60TH ANNIVERSARY! The hills are alive with the sound of music, and so too are the flats of Carlton – for one night at least! Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in career-defining roles and THAT first shot; you know the drill. A soon-to-be nun, Maria (A ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

One of the world’s greatest singers, Andrea Bocelli has a voice that transcends genres and generations.  

Documentarian Cosima Spender follows ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

EVENT SCREENING: Sunday September 21, 3:15pm. Pre-recorded introduction from filmmaker David Redmon to play before feature. Physical media reigns supreme in KIM'S VIDEO, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

Q&A SCREENING: Tuesday September 23, 6.45pm. Join musicians David Bridie and Telek for a post-film Q&A. Sir George Telek MBE, aka Telek, is a band, a man and in some parts of the world, a legend. His four decade career has been inextricably linke ... 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: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! “As if!” snarks Cher with just the right amount of disdain and sardonic eye-roll in iconic film of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

From director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights) comes a darkly comic thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and newcomer Chase Infiniti. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA SCREENING: Tuesday September 30, 6.50pm (SOLD OUT) + 7.10pm (SOLD OUT). To celebrate twenty years of sparkling vampires and spider monkeys, we’ve partnered with Readings to present a double feature of (the best films in the franchise ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

RESTORATION! Kevin Smith’s provocative comedy DOGMA was both beloved and hated upon release, immediately becoming a cult favourite and one of Smith’s most appreciated films. When two fallen angels (a charismatic pairing of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) are ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

Meet the Filmmaker: Saturday October 11,11:40am. Join filmmaker Stephen Soucy for apost-screening Zoom Q&A. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

THE SMASHING MACHINE tells the story of Mark Kerr (Johnson), a pioneer of mixed-martial arts and UFC, detailing his personal and professional hardships on the way to becoming a champion. Supported by his devoted yet tormented wife Dawn Staples (Blunt), Ke ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

15TH ANNIVERSARY! Continually prescient and timely, David Fincher’s masterpiece only grows in stature and reputation, cementing itself as one of the most important films of the century. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: Saturday October 4, 10.40am. These school holidays, join us to celebrate 85 years of this Walt Disney classic - and the long, rich history of Lygon Street’s Italian cultural heritage - with this Anniversary Screening of 1940’s anima ... 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: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Lynn's (My Cousin Vinny) classic mosaic whodunnit is based on the titular board game, led by the iconoclastic Tim Curry. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

INTERACTIVE GODDESS EDITION SCREENING! Join us at Cinema Nova on Friday October 10 for an audience-interactive screening of critically derided ... 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: Wednesday, 15 Oct 2025

Cinema Nova is very excited to announce a special event screening of 1998’s cult classic PRACTICAL MAGIC with director Griffin Dunne in-cinema for a live introduction to the film, post-screening Q&A hosted by Brodie Lancaster, and book signing! Ticket ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

A multidimensional journey into the heart of the Renaissance. The city that was once the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence and the Uffizi Gallery ensure a totally immersive and unique tour of the city that was artistic home of Michelangelo, Leonardo, R ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Oct 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday October 21, 6.30pm. Join anaesthetist and cave diver Dr. Richard ‘Harry’ Harris for a post-film Q&A in-cinema. Lauded documentarian Jennifer Peedom explores Thair cave rescuer Dr. Richard ‘Harry’ Harris’ return to t ... 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: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

Award-winning musician Marlon Williams explores the process of making his first te reo Māori album in MARLON WILLIAMS: NGĀ AO E RUA - TWO WORLDS, a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Williams’ most ambitious project to date. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

The St Kilda Film Festival Victorian Tour takes the best of the 2025 festival program on the road! Don’t miss this special encore presentation of Australia's Top Short Films, selected from the festival’s biggest ever program. Films presented across two s ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Five years after Freddy Krueger was defeated, teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) and his family move into Nancy ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday October 22, 7.10pm. James Sweeny’s sophomore feature TWINLESS is an unpredictable comedy about loss and grief, starring Sweeny and Dylan O'Brien (Saturday Night). ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 24 Oct 2025

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Director George A. Romero returns with the third film in his famed zombie oeuvre, following Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead. Set in Florida, an isolated group of scientists attempt to cure the flesh-eating affliction that h ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

David Gulpili (Walkabout, The Proposition, Charlie’s Country) was one of Australia’s greatest and most well-known actors, and the first Indigenous actor to make an international stamp. A Yolŋu man, Gulpili led a traditional lifestyle in the Arafura Swamp ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

Shining a light on the unsung heroes of the Italian migrant experience, SIGNORINELLA – LITTLE MISS is an entertaining, touching and uplifting look at a cultural force that changed Australia forever. Italian women take centre stage as they share personal s ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 31 Oct 2025

HALOWEEN SCREENING! From the imagination of Tim Burton comes one of the greatest stop motion animated musicals ever made. Featuring ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

40th ANNIVERSARY! Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend; maverick scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Directed by Robert ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday November 7, 7:10pm. Join director & co-producer Sophie Somerville, co-producer Carter Looker, and cast for a post-screening Q&A. Sophie Somerville’s honest and raw debut FWENDS is a Melbourne set festival darling, winning the B ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Going behind the scenes of her administration and her private life, PRIME MINISTER follows Jacinda for seven years as she is catapulted to the top of New Zealand politics, becomes a feminist political icon, resigns suddenly from office and continues to ch ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

From Oscar nominees Clint Bently and Greg Kwedar, the duo behind Sing Sing, comes TRAIN DREAMS, a moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a family man whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th century America. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Nov 2025

Following triumphant performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

Celebrate the 10 year anniversary and see it on the big screen!

The real-life of one of America's foremost founding fathers ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

Looking after her ill daughter while her husband is away for business, Linda (Byrne) is a therapist that’s struggling to hold it all together. When her bedroom ceiling collapses and she’s forced to move into a hotel while caring for her child, the thread ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

In 1937, Kornyev (Alexander Kuznetsov), a young and naïve prosecutor, receives a letter written in blood from a prisoner alleging that the state secret police have abused their power and tortured him. Determined to meet the sender and learn about what’s o ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Nov 2025

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder - shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography... Five years in production, this ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

One week out from shooting his upcoming film, world famous actor Jay Kelly (Clooney), decides to shift gears and visit his family in Europe as he begins to reassess his career. Without a warning, he embarks on the trip, first stopping in Italy to accept a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

WICKED: FOR GOOD is part 2 of John M. Chu's adaptation of the Broadway phenomenon, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and Bowen Yang. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 22 Nov 2025

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco ... 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: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

With strikingly intimate access, MISTRESS DISPELLER explores the work of a ‘mistress dispeller’ – someone who is tasked with infiltrating and ending an affair. When Mrs Li finds out that her husband Mr Li is having an affair with the younger Fei Fei, she ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

Starring an ensemble cast including Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Josh Brolin (Weapons), Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and more, Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Nov 2025

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Al ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday November 30, 3:30pm. Join filmmaker Dawn Jackson and featured dancer Floeur Alder for a post-screening Q&A. POINTE DANCING ON A KNIFE'S EDGE is a captivating and moving documentary about Australian dancer Floeur Alder, daughter ... 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: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

Delving into the quirky yet heartfelt traditions of the sleepy Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge, THE GOLDEN SPURTLE documents the annual World Porridge Making Championships. Each year, local residents and competitors from across the globe gather t ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 13 Dec 2025

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary ... 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: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film MY BROTHER'S BAND follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music, starring a charming paring of Benjamin Lavernhe (Delicious) and Pierre Lottin (The Night of the 12th, When Fall ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) returns with SENTIMENTAL VALUE, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix and starring returning muse Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) alongside Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl) and Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown). Sist ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Dec 2025

From breakout star Harris Dickinson (Babygirl, Triangle of Sadness) comes URCHIN, his debut feature starring Frank Dillane (Harvest) that premiered at Cannes, where it won two awards. Mike (Dillane) is a young homeless man living in London, struggling to ... 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: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, a searing moral thriller that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an unassuming mechanic and former political prisoner, has a chance e ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 17 Jan 2026

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Margaret Qualley (Honey Don’t), and Andrew Scott (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) star in Richard Linklater’s (Boyhood) ensemble BLUE MOON, which won the Silver Bear at Venice for Best Supporting Performance for Scott ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Winner of Best Actor, Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at Cannes 2025, THE SECRET AGENT is a rousing and tense political thriller led by a captivating performance from Wagner Moura (Civil War). ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. The first new Met production of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hannah (Coleman), a film director, travels with her non-binary teenager Frances (Mason-Hyde) from Australia to Amsterdam to visit her gay father, Jim (Lithgow). But when Frances asks to stay abroad with their grandfather for a year, Hannah is forced to re ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hasan Hadi’s debut film THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE had its world premiere in Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, where won the section’s Audience Award and the Caméra d'Or. In 1990s Iraq, the young Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) lives with her ailing grandmother, Bibi ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 28 Feb 2026

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely? Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power a ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Mar 2026

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 2026

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of ... more

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

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

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: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

A cultural phenomenon and box office sensation in Italy, this emotional drama set in a Rome high school explores the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

Starring popular comic duo Salvatore Ficarra & Valentino Picone (Strangeness IFF23) and festival favourite Toni Servillo (also in La Grazia ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Award-winning filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek returns with this Italian box office hit, a joyous and touching tribute to the costume designers ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Elio Germano delivers a standout performance as Enrico Berlinguer in this meticulous, intelligent biopic of a man for whom life ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Directed by Marco Tullio Giodana, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marco Bellochio and Gloria Malatesta, and inspired by the ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, THE MOUNTAIN BRIDE – VERMIGLIO is an atmospheric, ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

In 1980s-1990s Italy, with his agency Diva Futura, Riccardo Schicchi revolutionises mass culture by turning the hippie utopia of free ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

Cleverly intertwining past and present, fiction and documentary, with this biopic director/co-writer Mimmo Calopresti tells the story of the growth ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

The directorial debut from actress Greta Scarano (The Perfect Dinner IFF22), fun dramedy Siblings is inspired by the true story ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

After the great success of the first two films in the series, 10 Days Without Mamma (IFF19) and When Mum ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 24 Sep 2025

This elegant and moving film from award-winning writer/director Mario Martone (Nostalgia, The King of Laughter) follows a decisive event in ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 24 Sep 2025

In this personal tale, filmmaker Francesca Comencini reflects on her bond with and pays homage to her father Luigi Comencini, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival is delighted to present Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated new drama La Grazia ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Directed by Ivano DeMatteo (Mia IFF24) this compelling drama about forgiveness and parental love that is loosely based on Ciro ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Narrated by Italian-Australian actress Greta Scacchi, this fascinating documentary written, directed and produced by the creators of LYGON ST - ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Sep 2025

From Fabio Grassadoni and Antonio Piazza (Sicilian Ghost Story), this fictionalised mafia story features standout performances from Elio Germano and ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Sep 2025

Jasmine (Marilena Amato) is a hairdresser in her 40s and appears to have everything she ever wanted: a devoted husband, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 27 Sep 2025

Adapted from Rosella Postorino’s bestselling novel At The Wolf’s Table, this gripping historical drama from multi award-winning writer/director Silvio Soldini ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

When Isabella Ducrot (née Antonia Mosca) began to devote herself to art at the age of 55, no one – ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

Starring Ludovica Martino (SKAM Italia) and Marco Leonardi (Cinema Paradiso) My Place Is Here is a compelling tale of a ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Oct 2025

Written and directed by Gianni Amelio (Lord of the Ants IFF22), loosely based on the 2018 novel The Challenge by ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

In her debut feature, director and cowriter Sara Fgaier delivers a lyrical, sensitive and thoughtful drama about the power of ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 3 Oct 2025

Members of a family find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when a pack of coyotes swarms their Hollywood Hills home. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze o ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

A woman’s hope for a cure to her debilitating condition turns into a nightmare when she discovers the true cause, a demonic spirit determined to take revenge on those who have wronged her. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

While visiting a remote island to secure land for wealthy clients, Emily, a successful real estate consultant, becomes the next victim in a series of abductions plaguing a small town. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake (Elisabeth Moss) is invited into the ultra-glamorous world of Zoe Shannon (Kate Hudson), CEO of wellness company SHELL. When SHELL patients begin to go missing, including starlet Benson (Kaia Gerber), Samantha realiz ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

Finally, nature unleashes its revenge! From the pollution of our nuclear waste came the killer we cannot destroy. Our worst nightmares come to life with the terrifying, scaly monster – SILTHIS! ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

In 1897, in a back alley in the seedy Pigalle district of Paris, a former chapel turned performance space became a theatrical institution forged in naturalism, controversy and grisly spectacle. Over the next 65 years, it would actively provoke revulsion, ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

A claustrophobic and psychological horror film about two competitive siblings alone in their new house. Newly widowed Cata attends a party, leaving her two young sons, Mati and Emi, alone at their new house. As the brothers attempt to find their games con ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

In the 15th century, Prince Vladimir denied God after the brutal and cruel loss of his wife. He then inherits a curse: eternal life. He becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander through the centuries, he will have only one hope, that of finding his lost love. ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

Something evil is happening in the sleepy fishing village of Noyo. Fish-like humanoid creatures, spawned by mutant DNA, begin rising from the ocean, looking to spawn with the local women. ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

Lake Mungo Revisited is a deep dive documentary that explores the production of Lake Mungo and its enduring impact, with inteviews from both the cast & crew of the film along with with Justin Kurzel, Mike Flanagan, Eduardo Sánchez, David Dastmalchian and ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

Charlie (Jeanette Coppolino) and her companions initiate an inspiring quest, representing a hero's journey both physically and metaphorically, displaying unrelenting strength and sacrifice as they embark upon an epic trek toward personal growth and awaren ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

Monster Fest serves up Fresh Cuts, a fearless selection of student-made horror shorts. These inventive filmmakers push boundaries, blending dark humour, perforated tension, and unsettling storytelling in compact, unforgettable jolts of terror. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods - but every cure has costs. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

Brace yourself for Nightmare Fuel, a bone-chilling collection of short-form horror guaranteed to haunt your dreams. From monstrous beasts to vengeful ghosts, relentless zombies, and deranged killers, this program delivers terror in every imaginable form. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

In a small, declining Oregon town, excitement has been building for days. A Hollywood studio is holding a test screening of a new blockbuster movie in the local cinema. Could it be the new John Carpenter, the latest Steven Spielberg, or another STAR TREK? ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 2025

Get ready to die...die laughing! Zing! Bloody Funny delivers a wickedly entertaining selection of horror-comedy shorts where black humour meets grisly mayhem. From the truly shocking to the truely bizarre, these films prove that terror can be hilarious. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 2025

A small town troupe of theatre actors attempt to produce their own movie version of Dracula, but is their charismatic leader an asset or really another blood sucking vampire? ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 2025

In the dark streets of Melbourne, vampire Chisuki finds love with fiery empath Isabel. But when death looms, turning Izzy binds them in passion and hunger. As bloodlust rises, can their love survive the darkness? ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Oct 2025

Monster Fest presents Sinister Visions, a globe-spanning showcase of thrilling short-form horror nasties. From Austria to India, Saudi Arabia to the United States and our very own backyard, these chilling tales deliver fear, suspense, and twisted terrors ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

In a city ravaged by looting and economic collapse, married couple Esther and Tomás make a desperate choice: flee with their young daughter to their country house, bought in better days, with hopes of selling it quickly and escaping to a safer country. Bu ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

A writer befriends a retired serial killer in a desperate attempt to find inspiration for his next novel and save his marriage. Covering as his marriage counselor, the killer teaches him his methods as reality becomes deadlier than fiction. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

In Deathstalker, the Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege by the Dreadites, heralds of the long-dead sorcerer Nekromemnon. When Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield, he's marked by dark magick and hunted by monstrous assass ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

Once a smug former child star, Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter) is now the unfortunate face of a shady megacorporation pushing questionable products in South America. But when Ricky and his misfit companions — the endlessly weird Ernie and idealistic Julie — ta ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

The metalhead splatter insanity returns in the sequel to 2015’s comedy horror hit, DEATHGASM. After thwarting a demon apocalypse (which he helped to create) Brodie is mourning the death of his best friend - the charmingly psychopathic Zakk. Unemployed and ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

In a 17th century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named the Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil’s Balls. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy spiraling into an out of control bender in which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

Calling all gorehounds and genre junkies — think you know your Argento from your Aster? Your slashers from your splatter? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test at Monster Fest Horror Movie Trivia, presented by Melbourne Horror Film Society. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

Murder City’s ambassador of twisted cinema, Dick Dale, returns to Melbourne with his latest Trasharama program, bursting at the screams with the grossest, goriest and greatest short films to grace a Trasharama yet. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi is presented in a brand new ... more