Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Aug 2024

Robert De Niro, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale lead a tender cross-country road trip that made its premiere at TIFF. Max Bernal (Cannavale) is a stand-up comedian living with his father (De Niro), while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra (intr ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Aug 2024

Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and Cliff Curtis (Avatar: The Way of Water) lead a 19th century New Zealand epic. Set in 1864 Aotearoa New Zealand, KA WHAWHAI TONU tells the story of a pivotal battle in the first New Zealand land wa ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Aug 2024

DOUBLE FEATRURE! Sergio Leone's spaghetti western ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (starring Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson) sees ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Aug 2024

Blake Lively (The Town) leads the first big screen adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. Lily Bloom (Lively) has overcome a traumatic childhood and is embarking on a new life in Boston as she chases a lifelong dream of opening her own business. Soon, a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Aug 2024

60th ANNIVERSARY! Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) takes a bet from Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can transform an ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Aug 2024

The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Aug 2024

From Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott lead an all-star cast in a futuristic thriller set in the years following a nuclear holocaust. Never before released in Australian cinemas! With the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024

DOUBLE BILL! The ghost with the most, BEETLEJUICE turned Tim Burton into one of Hollywood's hottest directors and made Michael ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Aug 2024

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Wednesday August 14, 6.50pm. Join director Daniel Fenech and talent Matt Formston for a post-film Q&A. The inspirational story of Australian Matt Formston (3x World Champion blind surfer) is retraced in a powerful documentary. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Aug 2024

15TH ANNIVERSARY! This August, celebrate the 15th anniversary of the acclaimed stop-motion epic that has enchanted fans across the globe since its release back in 2009. A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Aug 2024

Michael Mann directs Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in a cat-and-mouse thriller of a master thief who continues to evade arrest by police. As he plans his final heist, a dogged detective gradually closes in on the thief and his gang. Master criminal Neil ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Aug 2024

Following their collaboration on Antoinette in the Cevannes, Caroline Vignal and Laure Calamy reunite for a feel-good French rom-com. Iris (Calamy) is a woman who seemingly has everything: a wonderful husband, two perfect daughters, a successful busine ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Aug 2024

30th ANNIVERSARY! The high-adrenaline thriller that transformed Keanu Reeves into a major movie star, Jan de Bont's action hit is ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 Aug 2024

DOUBLE FEATURE! Guillermo del Toro directs an all-star cast in this romance of a lonely janitor (Sally Hawkins) who forms ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 21 Aug 2024

The St Kilda Film Festival Victorian Tour takes the best of the 2024 festival program on the road! Don’t miss this special encore presentation of 14 of Australia's Top Short Films, selected from the festival’s super-sized 40th anniversary program. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Aug 2024

20th ANNIVERSARY! Nicole Kidman stars in Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer's criminally underseen psychological drama BIRTH.

Ten years after the sudden passing ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Aug 2024

The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Aug 2024

Before there was Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga, there was Judy Garland/James Mason. Marking Garland’s return to cinema after a four year absence, George Cukor’s film of 1954 was a memorable version that, 67 years later, many call the definitive. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Aug 2024

From the producers of Barbarian and Late Night With the Devil comes a breathtaking thriller about the twisted life of a serial killer. Strikingly shot by cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi and starring Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner, writer/director JT ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Aug 2024

Based on the Icelandic best-selling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Baltasar Kormákur’s tender romance lands at Cinema Nova following acclaimed screenings at SFF. A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; TOUCH follows ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 25 Aug 2024

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday August 25, 5.00pm. Join Tim Costello (former CEO of World Vision AUS) and filmmaker Esther Takac for a post-film Q&A. A searching journey into the souls of four people who, after losing family in violent conflict, transform ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024

MOVIE EPIC! Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actress and Supporting Actress, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

Ant Timpson (producer – Mister Organ) directs Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) in a charming New Zealand adventure. 11-year-old Mildred's world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise (Wood), comes to look ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

25th ANNIVERSARY! Doug Liman (Swingers) directs an all-star cast in a comedy written by John August. Starring Sarah Polley, Scott Wolf, William Fichtner, Jay Mohr, Katie Holmes, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

Director Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair)’s sophomore feature is a hypnotic subversion of familiar coming-of-age stories. Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a my ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

Winner of this year’s Audience Award at Sundance, the beginnings of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap are retraced in Rich Peppiatt’s ground-shaking comedy-drama. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life s ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

30TH ANNIVERSARY! A Disney classic returns to Nova Screens. THE LION KING is the extraordinary coming-of-age adventure of young lion Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), the heir of his father, Mufasa (James Earl Jones) – King of Pride Rock. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

Acclaimed as the best documentary made about LA, Thom Andersen’s epic film explores how the city has been used, depicted and distorted by the movies made there while also revealing the darkest parts of its history. Consisting mostly of shots from other ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Aug 2024

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday August 25, 4.30pm. Get an early look at the long-awaited biopic at our advance screening. The story of The Beatles' manager is recounted in a colourful biopic. When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 19 ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo tale of an oddball journalist (Johnny Depp) and his psychopathic lawyer (Benicio Del Toro) ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Sep 2024

15TH ANNIVERSARY! Tilda Swinton leads Luca Guadagnino's (Challengers) grandiose family drama. At a dinner - during which her husband learns that he and his son are about to assume control their family's lucrative business - Emma (Swinton) meets a chef ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Sep 2024

With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) proves she's as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion. A remarkably nuance ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Sep 2024

30th ANNIVERSARY! Winner of the Palme d'Or, Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION is easily one of the best and most influential films in modern cinema. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Sep 2024

Jane Squibb (Nebraska) is a retiree out for revenge in Josh Margolin’s hilarious and heartwarming feature debut. When 93-year-old Thelma (Squibb) falls victim to a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Sep 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Top Gun Tom Cruise will take your breath away in a breathtaking high-octane double feature. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Sep 2024

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday September 12, 6.45pm. Join Academy Award winning costume designer Tim Chappel for a post-film Q&A. In celebration of its 30th anniversary, an Australian icon returns to Nova screens! When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving – T ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Sep 2024

Celebrated filmmaker Martin Provost (Seraphine) directs a Cannes-selected 19th century love story between an aspiring French artist and his aristocratic wife. From the moment that Pierre Bonnard (Vincent Macaigne) and Marthe de Meligny (Cecile de Franc ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Sep 2024

Paul Goldman (Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story) directs the comeback story of a down-on-his-luck boxer in 1970s Western Australia, starring Billy Howle (On Chesil Beach) and Phoebe Tonkin (Boy Swallows Universe). ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Sep 2024

40th ANNIVERSARY! Filmmaker Wes Craven's classic slasher, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, not only launched a long-running franchise but also established a studio, New Line Pictures. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Sep 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated spectaculars screen back-to-back!

Adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved children's tale, George Clooney voices the FANTASTIC ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Sep 2024

20TH ANNIVERSARY! A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Sep 2024

Demi Moore delivers the comeback performance of the year in Coralie Fargeat’s skin-crawling body-horror that won Best Screenplay at Cannes. A fading celebrity (Moore) decides to use a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creat ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Sep 2024

MOVIE EPIC! A comedy that forever changed cinema in the mid 1970s, Robert Altman's utilisation of an ensmble cast empowered ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

The director-writer duo behind The Intouchables return with a climate-change comedy starring Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). Two swindlers, deep in debt, infiltrate a group of climate activists when they are attracted to the free food and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Gene Hackman and Harrison Ford lead Francis Ford Coppola’s classic follow-up to The Godfather. Surveillance expert Harry Caul (Hackman) is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide (Ford) to tail a young couple, Mark (Frederic Forrest ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) realises his 40-years-in-the-making vision of a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Drive ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal) stars alongside newcomer Maisy Stella in Megan Park’s (The Fallout) Sundance hit. In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracki ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 27 Sep 2024

In a castle high on a hill lives Edward; a boy created by an eccentric inventor. When his creator dies ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Oct 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as legendary sleuth Hercule Poirot in a double feature of the detective's most ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Oct 2024

10TH ANNIVERSARY! David Robert Mitchell's critically acclaimed supernatural chiller IT FOLLOWS was declared the scariest horror movie in a generation ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Pack your bags for love and laughs with this crazy rich double feature!

Based on the bestselling novel CRAZY ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong star in Border and Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi's controversial drama inspired by the mentorship ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024

25TH ANNIVERSARY! David Lynch directs the Oscar-nominated drama of Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), a 73-year-old who learns that his estranged brother, Lyle, is critically ill. Unable to drive, Alvin embarks on a journey from Iowa to Mt. Zion, by rid ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Oct 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Head back to the early 80s for a double feature highlighting two of the greatest genre filmmakers of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024

When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form of dementia, he is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024

10TH ANNIVERSARY! 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: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024

From Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max), MEMOIR OF A SNAIL is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday l ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Oct 2024

DOUBLE BILL! The horror hit that reignited a genre plus the acclaimed homage that reignited the franchise.

Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024

Sebastian Stan is transformed in an A24-produced genre-bender that also features Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) and a scene-stealing performance by Adam Pearson (Under the Skin). ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024

Kate Winslet portrays Vogue model-turned-war correspondent Lee Miller in award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras’ (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) feature directorial debut. LEE portrays a pivotal decade in the life of Lee Miller. Miller's sin ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024

Paola Cortellesi directs, writes, and stars in this comedy-drama that beat Barbie and Oppenheimer at the Italian Box Office. In Rome, during the second half of the 1940s, Delia (Cortellesi) plays exclusively the roles of wife and mother while her husba ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024

MOVIE EPIC! Steven Spielberg directs an all-star cast led by Tom Hanks in the wartime drama that changed cinema forever.

Following ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024

From multi-awarded Director/Producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau and Producer Rebecca Barry, Mozart’s Sister is a ‘musical-true-crime’ story that explores the lost talent of Maria-Anna Mozart. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 Nov 2024

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

MEMORIES OF MURDER follows two detectives in a small Korean ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Nov 2024

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, 19 Nov 2024

DOUBLE BILL! A 'back from the dead' double feature!

Park Chan-wook directs Choi Min-sik in the action mystery that kicked-off the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024

MOVIE EPIC! Directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean star in an ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Two classic animated fantasies directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Go back to school with two comedies that defined their respective generations.

Written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! A sophisticated British pairing, can you guess the dark forces that inhabit these classic horror movies?

A married couple ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Dec 2024

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. Some Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi l ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Dec 2024

Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 31 Dec 2024

MOVIE EPIC! Billed as 'the entertainment experience of a lifetime', director William Wyler's adaptation of Lew Wallace's BEN-HUR stars Charlton ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Oct 2024

Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the 2024-25 season, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2024

Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 2024

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Feb 2025

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s ... 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, 7 Nov 2024

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting ... 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, 10 Jul 2025

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