Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Apr 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday April 6, 2.15pm. Join writer/director Jonathan Ogilvie, producer Antje Kulpe and moderator/ journalist Lawrie Zion for a post-film Q&A. Making her acting debut, musician Benee stars alongside Ed Oxenbould (The Visit) in HE ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! The film that's been haunting viewers for 25 years, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM tells the story of four Coney Island people, all haunted and controlled by their addictions. Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of the innate desire that long ... more

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 world for capturing the spirit of Looney Tunes in a micro-budget slapstick comedy. ... 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’ epic adventure ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Close to retirement, detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is tackling one final case with the newly transferred Mills (Brad Pitt). Young and naïve, Mills reflects a side of policing far from Somerset’s considered and thorough approach to ... 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

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker and Neil Young’s wife, Daryl Hannah, NEIL YOUNG: COSTAL offers a glimpse behind the curtain of this unguarded iconoclast, as he navigates a return to the stage post-Covid. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

MATINEE FILM CLUB: Thursday April 10, 10.30am. Join your host, film critic Jan Epstein, for an advance screening of THE PENGUIN LESSONS with complimentary morning tea and post-movie chat. Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, THE PENGUIN LESSONS is inspire ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

Co-Written and co-directed by Alex Garland (Civil War), WARFARE is a visceral, boots-on-the-ground thriller told like never before: in real time and based on memory. ... 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

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Premiering at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere of DR. STRANGELOVE, a stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece. When a rogue U.S General pre-emptively triggers a nuclear attack, a surreal race takes place ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Apr 2025

Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben, returns to theatres, now digitally re-mastered in 4K from the original 35mm footage with enhanced audio. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Apr 2025

Melbourne's OG TWILIGHT SAGA movie marathon returns due to enormous popular demand! It started with Cinema Nova revisiting TWILIGHT for a “one-off” event in March 2022 to celebrate Kristen Stewart's Oscar nomination for Spencer and Robert Pattinson's ar ... 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

Cannes Film Festival Official Selection. Lou Ye's AN UNFINSHED FILM combines fiction and documentary footage to create a singularly astounding film. In January 2020 director Xiaorui (Xiaorui Mao) convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Tim Burton's Oscar Winning biopic ED WOOD depicts the fantastical life of cult filmmaker, actor, and novelist, Edward Davis Wood Jr. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

From the producers behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies comes FLAT GRLS, Jirassaya Wongsutin’s beautiful and tender debut. Raised in ‘the flats’, a complex designated for the hundreds of families of police officers, Jane (Kirana Pipityakorn) a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

A subversive take on J.S. Le Fanu's gothic sensation novel, LIES WE TELL shrouds a chilling mystery inside of an Irish period thriller. Ireland, 1864. When her father suddenly dies, the 18-year-old Maud (Agnes O’Casey) inherits his grand and rem ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

Directorial debut of Samoan-born and Aotearoa-based Miki Magavisa, TINĀ is an uplifting and inspiring story of love and perseverance. Grieving her ... 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: Wednesday, 7 May 2025

BJÖRK'S CORNUCOPIA is a documentary concert film by legendary Icelandic artist Björk, capturing her 2023 performance at Lisbon's Altice Arena during her four year-long Cornucopia tour. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

80TH ANNIVERSARY! Alfred Hitchcok's six-time Oscar nominated psychological thriller features the timeless and captivating Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. ... 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

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

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, THE SURFER is a new psychological thriller featuring a trademark sanity-questioning performance from Nicholas Cage (Pig, Mandy, Dream Scenario). When a man known as The Surfer (Cage) returns to his Australian homet ... 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: 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! 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

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

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: 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

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: 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: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE is a delightful French romantic comedy full of wit ... 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

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 ELLIS PARK. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instru ... 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: 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: 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: 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 indie high school hits.

Greta Gerwig’s LADYBIRD is the ... 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: 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

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 to h ... 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: 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, 10 Jul 2025

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