Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Mar 2025

From Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape), BLACK BAG is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Mar 2025

MDFF OPENING NIGHT FILM: Tuesday July 15, 6.30pm. MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday March 15, 3.30pm (SOLD OUT). Join director Fiona Cochrane for a post-film Q&A. Screening is in collaboration with the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. A charming portra ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

Winner of over 13 Audience Awards around the world, director Tracie Laymon's acclaimed comic-drama BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by a true story. Eager ... more

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

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 retelling of Odysseus' return home ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday March 20, 7.00pm.The feature is followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with cast member Isabella Tree, Australian Wildlife Conservancy CEO Tim Allard & hosted by Jack Thompson. WILDING tells the story of a young couple that b ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday March 25, 6.40pm. Join us for a special Q&A screening of CARMEN & BOLUDE with writer/actor Michela Carattini. Best friends CARMEN AND BOLUDE must travel from NYC to Sydney, Australia, where they have ten days ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Russell Crowe leads Peter Weir's 19th century naval epic. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday March 16, 4.20pm. See an early screening of the meditative THE CATS OF GOKOGU SHRINE. 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 ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Directed by Will Horwarth and Tom McKeith, IN VITRO is a gripping Australian-made thriller ripped straight from tomorrow's headline's. Layla (Talia Zucker) and her husband Jack (Ashley Zukerman) ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

Richard Gere and Paul Schrader are back together in OH, CANADA for the first time since American Gigolo! Director Leonard Fife (Gere), can feel his life slipping away after being diagnosed ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Apr 2025

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

Making her acting debut, musician Benee stars alongside Ed Oxenbould (The Visit) in HEAD SOUTH, a touching New Zealand coming of age set in the itoxicating scene of 70s post-punk. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

25TH ANNIVERSARY! The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

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! Detectives Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and Mills (Brad Pitt), one a seasoned cop, the other a relatively new one, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday March 30, 2.40pm. Be one of the first to witness Cillian Murphy's outstanding performance in director Tim Mielants’ historical drama SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE. Returning to the screen for his first role since his Oscar ... 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

MEET THE FILMMAKER Q&A: Sunday March 30, 5.30pm. Join Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste, Kriv Stenders and Carmel Travers at our special Q&A screening of THE CORRESPONDENT. Based on the incredible true story of Australian war correspondent Peter Gre ... 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

Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, THE PENGUIN LESSONS is inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina. The year is 1976. Tom (Coogan) lands in Buenos ... 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

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. In a Georgian border town, retired teacher Lia ... 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 theaters, now digitally re-mastered ... 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 a fi ... 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 ... 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 remote estat ... 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: 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.

When the ... 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

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway are captivating in Sydney Pollack's taut paranoia thriller.

After taking a break for lunch, ... 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 is as sytlish as it is nitghmarish. 

When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), 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: 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 satiristic science fiction-film noir ... 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

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE, the directorial debut of Laura Piani, is a delightful French romantic comedy full of wit and heart. Agathe (Camille Rutherford) lives the rom-com dream: she works in a famous bookstore where customers leave love letters on th ... 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: 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: 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

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: 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: Friday, 28 Mar 2025

The Tall Man is back with a vengeance. Armed with his lethal band of flying silver spheres, the deadly mortician ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Mar 2025

The zombies have returned! The horror begins again as mysterious barrels bounce off an Army transport as it passes through ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

As her brother stands trial for the killing of an outspoken New Orleans professor, inner-city schoolteacher Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan) ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

Remember Ben Willis? He's the fisherman who killed the boy who was driving the car when it went off the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

When Detroit’s descent into chaos is accelerated by a police strike and a new designer drug called “Nuke,” only Robocop ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

The mad Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), the tormented Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and the beheaded Dr. Carl Hill ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

Dorothy finds that her old friends have been turned to stone and that urban blight has struck the Emerald City. ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Mar 2025

From filmmaker Tobe Hooper, the director responsible for 1974's original THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and starring Oscar-nominee Dennis Hopper, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Apr 2025

Based on ex-Navy Seal Ray Mendoza's real-life experiences during the Iraq War. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son ... 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. A ... 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, 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, 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 Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town ... 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