Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

From visionary director Trey Edward Shults (Waves, It Comes At Night) comes HURRY UP TOMORROW, a fever-dream odyssey about the trappings of fame, starring Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd), Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Featuring an array of outstanding performances led by Raúl Briones and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara, LA COCINA is a gripping, exhilarating and truly cinematic new film from acclaimed director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Amidst the lunchtime rush of The Gri ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Greta Gerwig’s impressive directorial debut stars Saoirse Ronan as the seventeen-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, desperate to escape the mundane surrounds of her small Californian town. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) returns with the sharp, sinister, and slyly funny thriller MISERICORDIA. In the autumnal, woodsy village of Saint-Martial, Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker, has returned to his hometown after the death of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway are captivating in Sydney Pollack's taut paranoia thriller THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Andrew Scott (All Of Us Strangers, Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 16 May 2025

In a world that has started to forget him, Hector, a widowed Greek fisherman, feels the weight of his solitude. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 16 May 2025

Encore Screening: Friday May 16, 6.45pm. Director Michael Dillon will introduce the film. Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Africa, a snowy volcano nine thousand feet high, rears up from the sea like a great white whale. ... 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

WHAT THE FEST! Written and directed by Jeff Lieberman (Squirm), BLUE SUNSHINE is the creepy psychological horror from 1977 that preyed upon the jackknife political contrasts between the 'Flower Power' generation of the 1960s and the self interest and mate ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! David Cronenberg's daring CRASH is an unmatched psychological and erotic journey featuring an all-star cast of 1990s talent, including James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, and Elias Koteas. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

45TH ANNIVERSARY! Brian De Palma's luxurious erotic thriller DRESSED TO KILL is as stylish as it is nightmarish. When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a sex worker, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), she finds herself ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible in Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult classic EL TOPO. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Gaspar Noe's dream project, ENTER THE VOID, is a fantastical and psychological out-of-body experience set in and above the neon-lit nightclubs of Tokyo ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! An unnerving and hypnotic psychological mystery, Ryan J. Sloan’s debut GAZER premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Afflicted with a rare and fatal condition that affects her ability to perceive time and causes sudden blackouts, single ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! A deeply allegorical exploration of the human condition, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN is a rich, surreal, and symbolic work directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Jodorowsky. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Elijah Bynum directs Timothée Chalamet and Maika Monroe in a coming-of-age crime thriller about a sheltered teen who discovers a way to get rich quick during a wild summer in Cape Cod ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix in addition to Best Actress and Best Actor for its two leads, Michael Haneke’s psychological drama has become a staple of his filmography, and a film that still dominates discussion today. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Based on the award-winning book Scala Cinema 1978-1993 , SCALA!!! documents the history of a former cinema turned nightclub and live music venue in Pentonville Road, London, England. and a testament to the power of cinemas. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Packed with exuberant sets, stunning shots, a stirring soundtrack, Wisit Sasanatieng's Thai 'western' TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival, premiering in ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! A commercial disappointment upon its release, John Carpenter's adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr's Who Goes There has since become one of cinema's most influential films, referenced in Sinners, Together, Stranger Things, The Hateful Eight a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Matthew Rankin’s absurdist triptych UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE was the 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 interwea ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Rex and Saskia are enjoying a holiday in France. When the pair stop for fuel, Saskia disappears without a trace... Praised upon release, George Sluizer's psychological thriller THE VANISHING descends into the mind of a serial killer, buildi ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Battling entrenched tradition, the duo dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Denis Villeneuve's (Dune, Prisoners) second English-language feature ENEMY is a tense doppelganger thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain), Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds), and Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Conclave) ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Causing a sensation upon its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, HEREDITARY has already been called one of the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Adapted from the series of animated short films, Dean Fleischer-Camp's MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON features the voices of Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini in a critically acclaimed, profound and heartwarming tale. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Harmony Korine writes and directs visceral and stylish coming-of-age comic thriller SPRING BREAKERS. Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine star as four college students who travel to Florida for Spring Break, only to fall in with ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Adam Sandler gives the performance of his career in Benny & Josh Safdie's UNCUT GEMS, an anxiety inducing thriller about a jeweller who gambles with his life. ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025

WHAT THE FEST! Based on the 1958 science fiction classic, director Chuck Russell and screenwriter Frank Darabont reimagine the tale of a squishy yet deadly outer space mass which invades a small town before its citizens and a secretive government science ... 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! Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard's satirist science fiction-film noir ALPHAVILLE is back with a newly released restoration! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

The phenomenal Adèle Exarchopoulos (Passages) and François Civil (The Three Musketeers), devour the screen in BEATING HEARTS. Gilles Lellouche’s vibrant, genre-spanning romantic epic. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, filmed live for cinemas from London’s ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one ... 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: Thursday, 5 Jun 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Jun 2025

Chef Obana (Takuya Kimura), acclaimed in Japan for his spectacular cuisine, opens a restaurant in Paris with the goal of ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Jun 2025

A triumph of imagination, Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the world for capturing the spirit of Looney Tunes in a micro-budget slapstick comedy. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Jun 2025

THE ROOM is an audience interactive event complete with a Room Guide, loud cheering, quoting along lines, yelling at the screen and throwing LOTS of (eco friendly) spoons at the screen. ... 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: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday June 7, 6.00pm. Join musician and star Warren Ellis for a post-film Q&A. Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary with the fly-on-the-wall documentary ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

Capturing an extraordinary live performance of some of Zimmer's most revered compositions, HANS ZIMMER & FRIENDS: DIAMOND IN THE DESERT ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow ... 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: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman), and Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: NT LIVE. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

10TH ANNIVERSARY! Director Todd Haynes' Oscar nominated romantic drama starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Carrie Brownstein and Sarah Paulson returns ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

MATINEE FILM CLUB: Thursday June 12, 10.30am. Join your host, film critic Jan Epstein, for an advance screening of JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE with complimentary morning tea and post-movie chat. The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 20 Jun 2025

From Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scottland) and Sam Rice-Edwards (Meet Me in the Bathroom) comes ONE TO ONE: JOHN AND YOKO, an insightful and expansive look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono' ... 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, 24 Jun 2025

JOIN US FOR A WINTER SOLSTICE SCREENING!

Written and directed by visionary filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary, Beau Is Afraid) comes a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Jun 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the ... 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: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Lenny (Ralph Fiennes), a former cop, faces dangerous challenges when he finds out that Jeriko, a political activist, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Wednesday June 18, 6.30pm. Join director Gabrielle Brady for a post film Q&A. A young nomadic couple, Davaa and Zaya, live in the Mongolian desert with their four children, sheep and horses. Their loving and harmonious lifestyle is th ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 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: Thursday, 10 Jul 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: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! Paul Verhoeven's 1990 science fiction classic TOTAL RECALL stars a dynamite paring of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025

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

Greta Gerwig’s LADYBIRD is the ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025

The exceedingly handsome SENSE AND SENSIBILITY was scripted by Emma Thompson and was Ang Lee's first English feature. The impeccable cast includes Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. ... 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: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Japanese master Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a sixteenth-century Japan historical epic. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

The feature debut of Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, TOGETHER is a squishy, fleshy body horror starring real life couple Alison Brie (Promising Young Woman) and Dave Fraco (The Disaster Artist). ... 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: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! Mary Harron’s bloody satire of ’80s New York yuppie culture stars Christian Bale as iconic serial killer Patrick Bateman. A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from h ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

Based on the Broadway play that was inspired by an incredible true story, IRENA'S VOW follows Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdyke, portrayed by Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), who hid Polish Jews during World War II. Employed as a house keeper by Nazi Ger ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at the Toronto Film Festival! A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella, THE LIFE OF CHUCK details the life of Chuck Kranz, an ordinary accountant, told in reverse: from his death ... 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: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least. 

When a beloved friend visits on ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 5 Sep 2025

Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) makes her National Theatre debut in INTER ALIA: NT LIVE, a searing new play from the team behind Prima Facie. ... 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: 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: Friday, 4 Jul 2025

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Jul 2025

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a ... 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