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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
Björk’s Cornucopia
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
Bones and All
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, Luca Guadagnino directs Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a sensuous gothic-romance. ... more
Call Me by Your Name
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
ChalaMAY! A star-making performance by Timothee Chalamet, career-best support by Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg, sunny Italian settings and nostalgic ... more
Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
The legendary Mick “Crocodile” Dundee returns to the big screen in CROCODILE DUNDEE: THE ENCORE CUT, a newly restored cut of the Australian classic! ... more
OCEAN with David Attenborough
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
PREMIERE Q&A SCREENING: Friday May 9, 6.25pm. Join Australian underwater cinematographer Tom Park and other guests for a post-film Q&A. After seven decades filming every aspect of the natural world, David Attenborough delivers his greatest message of hop ... more
Spellbound
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
Tall Tales
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
Producer Mark Pritchard, songwriter Thom Yorke, and visual artist Jonathan Zawada present TALL TALES – a debut collaborative visual and audio experience a decade in the making. ... more
Crocodile Dundee + Love of an Icon: The Legend...
Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Re-visit the Australian classic fully restored followed by unseen behind-the-scenes footage and the making of the iconic film.
The ... 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
La Cocina
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
Surfer, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025
NOVA FILM CLUB: Tuesday May 13, 6.45pm. Join your host, Koko, for an advance screening of Nic Cage-starrer THE SURFER. Then, treat yourself to drink specials and a hosted post-movie chat in the Nova Bar. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, THE SURFER ... more
Three Days of the Condor
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
Aegean, The
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
Great White Whale, The
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
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
Dressed to Kill
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
Hot Summer Nights
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
Universal Language
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
Enemy
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
Hereditary
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
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
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
Spring Breakers
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
Uncut Gems
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
Apocalypse Now Final Cut
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
Alphaville
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
Beating Hearts
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
Fleabag: NT Live
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
Irena's Vow
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
Love Witch, The + Suspiria (1977)
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
Brokeback Mountain
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
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
Doom Generation, The
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
Ellis Park
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 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
Princess Mononoke + Nausicaa of the Valley of the
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
A Streetcar Named Desire: NT Live
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
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025
The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE is a delightful French romantic comedy full of wit ... more
One to One: John & Yoko
Opening Date: Friday, 20 Jun 2025
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One ... more
Abyss, The
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
Midsommar: Director's Cut
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
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
Strange Days
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
Wolves Always Come at Night, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025
Davaa and Zaya are a young nomadic couple in the vast Bayanhongor region of Mongolia who are in the throes of animal birthing season when a seismic event suddenly changes their lives ... more
Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The
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
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
Total Recall
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
Lady Bird + Dazed & Confused
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
Sense and Sensibility
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
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
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
Before Sunrise + Before Sunset
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
American Psycho
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
Life of Chuck, The
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
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
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
Inter Alia: NT Live
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
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
Ferris Bueller's Day Off + Election
Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! A Matthew Broderick double feature featuring the star in two of his most iconic roles. ... 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
Man Who Fell to Earth, The + 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
PFF Yalla Parkour
Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025
When filmmaker Areeb was four, she travelled to Gaza and saw the sea for the first time. That moment—the magic ... more
PFF Thank You for Banking with Us
Opening Date: Friday, 9 May 2025
THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US is a compelling story of two sisters fighting to claim their inheritance amidst patriarchal ... more
PFF To A Land Unknown
Opening Date: Friday, 9 May 2025
TO A LAND UNKNOWN, directed by Mahdi Fleifel, is a powerful exploration of the emotional and social challenges faced by ... more
PFF Gazan Tales
Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025
GARZEN TALES, directed by Mahmoud Nabil Ahmed, is a deeply moving documentary that offers an intimate portrayal of the everyday ... more
PFF Passing Dreams
Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025
In Bethlehem, Sami meets his uncle Kamal, who runs a souvenir shop. With Kamal and his reporter daughter Miriam, they ... more
PFF The Teacher
Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025
THE TEACHER is a powerful political drama that explores the deep emotional and moral complexities of resistance, loss, and survival ... more
PFF A Fidai Film
Opening Date: Sunday, 11 May 2025
In the summer of 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Beirut, the Israeli army raided the Palestinian Research Centre, looting its ... more
PFF From Ground Zero
Opening Date: Sunday, 11 May 2025
In November 2023, Gaza-born Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi (Passing Dreams [PFF’25], Falastine Stereo, Leila’s Birthday) founded the Masharawi Fund to ... 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
Enter The Void
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
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
Holy Mountain, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
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
Piano Teacher, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix in addition to Best Actress and Best Actor for its two leads, Michale Haneke’s psychological drama has become a staple of his filmography, and a film that still dominates discussion today. ... more
Tears of the Black Tiger
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
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 2001. ... more
Vanishing, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
Praised upon release, George Sluizer's psychological thriller THE VANISHING descends into the mind of a serial killer, culminating in a conclusion that critics call "one of the scariest endings of all time". ... 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
Female Trouble
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
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