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Hundreds of Beavers
Opening Date: Tuesday, 31 Dec 2024
A triumph of imagination, Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the ... more
Nosferatu
Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025
Horror maestro Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) directs a striking reimagining of one of the genre’s most iconic tales. NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian v ... more
Paddington in Peru
Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025
Paddington Bear is back for his most thrilling adventure yet in PADDINGTON IN PERU! With the Brown Family in tow, Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. However, a mystery soon plunges th ... more
Emilia Pérez
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) directs Cannes Best Actress winners Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Karla Sofía Gascón in the musical thriller that took the festival season by storm - EMILIA PÉREZ. ... more
Magic Beach
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
Based on Alison Lester's book, MAGIC BEACH features nine children and a dog bringing their imaginative imaginations to life. ... more
Sing Sing
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday January 10, 6.45pm. Be one of the first to see Colman Domingo in Greg Kwedar's indie gem. NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Winner of the 3 Gotham Awards including Outstanding Lead Performance for Colman Domingo, the Festival Favourites Audience ... more
We Live in Time
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
NYE ADVANCE SCREENING: Tuesday December 31, 6.30pm. Bring in the New Year with a glass of bubbles and the much-anticipated romantic drama WE LIVE IN TIME starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in a decades-span ... more
Brutalist, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday January 12, 2.00pm. Be one of the first to see Oscar front-runner THE BRUTALIST at our weekend advance screening. Includes intermission. Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) directs an audacious American epic, starring Adrien Brody (The Piani ... more
Complete Unknown, A
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday January 17, 6.20pm. Be one of the first to see Timotheé Chalamet’s outstanding turn as Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Screening will be followed by a virtual Australian Cinema Exclusive “IN CONVERSATION” with Timothée Chalame ... more
Maria
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday January 16, 6.20pm. Join us for an early look at Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larrain's portrait of opera legend Maria Callas. Angelina Jolie delivers a career-best performance as the world’s greatest female opera singer, Maria Ca ... more
Presence
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Feb 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday February 5, 7.20pm. See Lucy Liu in Steven Soderbergh's thrillingly-original POV horror the night before release! Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape) directs Lucy Liu (Kill Bill) and Julia Fox (Uncut Gems) in a wholl ... more
Queer
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Feb 2025
MELBOURNE PREMIERE: Wednesday January 22, 6.40pm (SOLD OUT) & 7.00pm. Join us for the Melbourne Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s mesmerising drama. Ticket includes a drink on arrival. Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers) and screenwriter Jus ... more
September 5
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Feb 2025
An American Sports broadcasting team covering the event must urgently adapt their live coverage when a group of athletes are taken hostage by terrorists. ... more
Widow Clicquot
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Feb 2025
Based on a true story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne business that began in the late 18th century, Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot - the WIDOW CLICQUOT. ... more
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Feb 2025
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. ... more
Cats of Gokogu Shrine, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 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
Grand Tour
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 2025
Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (Arabian Nights) directs a 20th century Asian odyssey, nominated for the 2024 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives ... more
Last Showgirl, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025
GALA SCREENING: Thursday January 30, 7pm. Be among the first to see Pamela Anderson's outstanding turn in THE LAST SHOWGIRL, weeks before general release. Pamela Anderson gives the performance of her career in Palo Alto director Gia Coppola's THE LAST SH ... more
MACBETH: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025
David Tennant (Dr Who and Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife and Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in ... more
Dahomey
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
Inside
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
Last Journey, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025
Selected as Sweden's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, THE LAST JOURNEY is the most-watched documentary in Swedish history. ... more
Seed of the Sacred Fig, The
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 SEED FIG ... more
Hard Truths
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
Return, The
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
Universal Language
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
I'm Still Here
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025
Celebrated Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) directs a masterful Golden Globe-nominated historical drama. ... more
An Unfinished Film
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
Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The
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
2001: A Space Odyssey
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
Witch, The + Lighthouse, The
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
Who Framed Roger Rabbit + Dick Tracy
Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jan 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! The lines between the cartoon world and ours are blurred in a pair of fantastical crime capers. ... more
Follow That Bird: The Sesame Street Movie
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jan 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. ... more
Coco + Soul
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate the transformative power of music with back-to-back Oscar-winning Pixar animated essentials. ... more
All About Eve
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
75TH ANNIVERSARY! A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingenue (Anne Baxter) gradually inserts herself into the lives of an aging ... more
Batman + Angel With Dirty Faces
Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Jan 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Tim Burton’s shadows and fog vision of Gotham City is followed by a classic James Cagney-led Warner Bros gangster film that inspired its aesthetic. ... more
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) brings his unique brand of adventure to the big screen in Tim ... more
American Psycho
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 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
Grease + Saturday Night Fever
Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Feb 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back hip-shaking movie musicals starring the king of cool – John Travolta. ... more
Flash Gordon
Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Feb 2025
45TH ANNIVERSARY! Mike Hodges (Get Carter) adapts the iconic comic strip of a football player-turned-superhero in a colourful space opera.
Although ... more
Mean Streets + After Hours
Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Feb 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Martin Scorsese’s breakout hit following the crime-ridden streets of New York City followed by a hypnotic and hilarious late-night caper of a man unable to escape the city… ... more
Goodfellas
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 2025
35TH ANNIVERSARY! Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s “Wiseguy”, this heart-pumping gangster classic follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in his rise and fall through the ranks of a New York mob. Perhaps the definitive Martin Scorsese picture, GOODFELLAS also features ... more
Blade Runner: The Final Cut + The Matrix
Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Feb 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Ridley Scott and The Wachowski’s 20th century visions of the near future are as visually and conceptually thrilling today as they were upon release. ... more
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Peter Weir’s 1975 Australian classic returns to the cinema screen. ... more
Thin Red Line, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Feb 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) directs an epic adaptation of James Jones’ 1962 novel following the conflict ... more
Mon Oncle + Playtime
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
Paprika + Tokyo Godfathers
Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Mar 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Japanese master Satoshi Kon’s hugely influential animated masterworks are celebrated on the silver screen. ... more
Dog Day Afternoon
Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the ... more
Roman Holiday + To Catch a Thief
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
Eyes Without A Face
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
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Russell Crowe leads Peter Weir's 19th century naval epic. ... more
Wake in Fright
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
Little Shop of Horrors + The Mask
Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Apr 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Comedy legends lead back-to-back cult hits! ... more
Ratatouille + WALL-E
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Apr 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! A foodie rat from Paris and a romantic robot bound for outer space lead modern classics from Pixar. ... more
The Count of Monte-Cristo
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
Memories of Murder + Parasite
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Apr 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s two biggest films back-to-back. ... more
Alien + Aliens
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
Eyes Wide Shut
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Apr 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... more
Rise of the Planet of the Apes +Planet of the Apes
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
Dr Strangelove + Paths of Glory
Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Stanley Kubrick directs two war classics that are among the legend’s best. ... more
The Thing + The Thing (2011)
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
My Own Private Idaho + The Lost Boys
Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Pride Month with back-to-back queer coming-of-age cult favourites! ... more
Grand Budapest Hotel + The Royal Tenenbaums
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
Breathless + Contempt
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Bastille Day with two French New Wave essentials from revered auteur Jean-Luc Godard. ... more
Booksmart + Ladybird
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
8 1/2 + La Strada
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
My Neighbour Totoro + Spirited Away
Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Two iconic Studio Ghibli films back-to-back. ... more
A.I Artificial Intelligence
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
Your Name + Weathering With You
Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Sep 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Makoto Shinkai (Suzume) directs a pair of gorgeous animated romantic fantasies. ... more
Basic Instinct + Mulholland Drive
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
Leopard, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Burt Lancaster leads Luchino Visconti’s 19th century Italian epic. ... more
Howl's Moving Castle + Laputa Castle in the Sky
Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more
Donnie Darko + Nightcrawler
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Oct 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Jake Gyllenhaal delivers two of his finest performances across a pair of chilling psychological thrillers. ... more
Jennifer's Body + Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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
Favourite, The + Poor Things
Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in a pair of Oscar winners. ... more
Kiki's Delivery Service + The Boy and the Heron
Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present two animated Japanese hits. ... more
The Man Who Fell to Earth + The Wicker Man (1973)
Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... more
Dersu Uzala
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
Portrait of a Lady on Fire + Petite Maman
Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Céline Sciamma directs a pair of tender French dramas. ... more
Dressed To Kill + Body Double
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
Nope + Get Out
Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Jordan Peele teams with Daniel Kaluuya for a pair of modern horror classics. ... more
Citizen Kane + The Magnificent Ambersons
Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Orson Welles directs and stars in a pair of cinema classics! ... more
Right Stuff, The
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
Met Opera: Aida
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
Met Opera: Fidelio
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
Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
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
Met Opera: Salome
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
Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
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
NT Live: The Importance of Bring Earnest
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 ... more
Michelangelo: Love and Death
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