Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2024

Encore screenings! KUSAMA: INFINITY returning to Cinema Nova in celebration of her blockbuster NGV show! ... 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: 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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jan 2025

From acclaimed director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) comes all-star dramatic thriller following one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) are dynamite in BABYGIRL, a hair-raising erotic-thriller from director Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies). ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday February 12, 6.50pm. Join us for an early look at Barry Keoghan in Andrea Arnold's gritty British drama - her first fiction feature since American Honey (2016). Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Ta ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

Amidst the lunch rush of a frantic Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. ... 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 ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

In Sydney, Australia, newlyweds Vir and Nitya have been happily married for a year. Their relationship is tested when Vir ... more

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

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

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, 1 May 2025

Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January ... 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, 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, 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, 7 Jan 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The lines between the cartoon world and ours are blurred in a pair of fantastical crime capers. ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate the transformative power of music with back-to-back Oscar-winning Pixar animated essentials. ... more

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Jan 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Japanese master Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a sixteenth-century Japan historical epic. ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Feb 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back hip-shaking movie musicals starring the king of cool – John Travolta. ... more

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Peter Weir’s 1975 Australian classic returns to the cinema screen. ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

RESTORATION! In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Mar 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Japanese master Satoshi Kon’s hugely influential animated masterworks are celebrated on the silver screen. ... more

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

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

65TH ANNIVERSARY! Deranged Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to replace the disfigured visage of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) with ... 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

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: 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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Apr 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s two biggest films back-to-back. ... 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: Tuesday, 29 Apr 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... 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: Tuesday, 13 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Stanley Kubrick directs two war classics that are among the legend’s best. ... 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: Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Pride Month with back-to-back queer coming-of-age cult favourites! ... 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, 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 contemporary high school hits. ... 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 ... 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