Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Lynn's (My Cousin Vinny) classic mosaic whodunnit is based on the titular board game, led by the iconoclastic Tim Curry. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) returns after 8-years with A HOUSE OF DYNAMTIE, an ensemble nuclear thriller starring Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Anthony Ramos, Jared Harris, Greta Lee, Tracy Letts, Jason Clarke, and Kaitlyn Dever. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

Meet the Filmmaker: Saturday October 11, 11:40am. Join filmmaker Stephen Soucy for a post-screening Zoom Q&A. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

INTERACTIVE GODDESS EDITION SCREENING! Join us at Cinema Nova on Friday October 10 for an audience-interactive screening of critically derided ... 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: Wednesday, 15 Oct 2025

Cinema Nova is very excited to announce a special event screening of 1998’s cult classic PRACTICAL MAGIC with director Griffin Dunne in-cinema for a live introduction to the film, post-screening Q&A hosted by Brodie Lancaster, and book signing! Ticket ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

From visionary filmmaker and Nova favourite Luca Guadagnino comes AFTER THE HUNT, is a gripping psychological drama starring a career-best Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield. Alma (Roberts), a respected and admired Yale college professor, fi ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

From Edward Berger (Conclave) comes BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, a gambling thriller starring Colin Farrel, Tilda Swinton, and Fala Chen (Lucky Lu). When his past starts to catch up with him, Lord Freddy Doyle (Farrell) a high-stakes gambler, moves to Macau ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Saturday October 11, 7.00pm. From Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) comes ROOFMAN, a charming comedy/crime that's based on a true story, starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, and Peter Dinklage. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

A multidimensional journey into the heart of the Renaissance. The city that was once the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence and the Uffizi Gallery ensure a totally immersive and unique tour of the city that was artistic home of Michelangelo, Leonardo, R ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Oct 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday October 21, 6.30pm. Join anaesthetist and cave diver Dr. Richard ‘Harry’ Harris for a post-film Q&A in-cinema hosted by comedian/presenter Peter Helliar. ... 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: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

Q&A SCREENING: Wednesday October 22, 6:30pm (Sold Out) + 7.15pm. Join musician Marlon Williams for an in-cinema post-film Q&A. Award-winning musician Marlon Williams explores the process of making his first te reo Māori album in MARLON WILLIAMS: TWO W ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

The St Kilda Film Festival Victorian Tour takes the best of the 2025 festival program on the road! Don’t miss this special encore presentation of Australia's Top Short Films, selected from the festival’s biggest ever program. Films presented across two s ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Q&A SCREENING: Sunday October 19, 4.15pm. Join us for a post-film Q&A with guest panellists Dr. Catherine Barrett (Celebrate Ageing), Dr. Medha Gunawardana (Australian Multicultural Community Services) and Kate Dalton (Elderly Rights Australia). Amid ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Five years after Freddy Krueger was defeated, teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) and his family move into Nancy ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday October 22, 7.10pm. James Sweeny’s sophomore feature TWINLESS is an unpredictable comedy about loss and grief, starring Sweeny and Dylan O'Brien (Saturday Night). ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 24 Oct 2025

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025

A cinematic journey framed by the iconic performances of Depeche Mode during their 2023 Memento Mori tour, DEPECHE MODE: M is conceived and directed by award-winning filmmaker Fernando Frías. Capturing the band's three sold-out shows in Mexico City, this ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Andrei Tarkovsky directs a landmark sci-fi adventure. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

FILM CLUB ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday October 29, 6.50pm. Join host Koko for an Advance Screening of BUGONIA. Discussion and drink discounts in the bar after the film. From master filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Lobster) comes a hilarious ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Director George A. Romero returns with the third film in his famed zombie oeuvre, following Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead. Set in Florida, an isolated group of scientists attempt to cure the flesh-eating affliction that h ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

David Gulpili (Walkabout, The Proposition, Charlie’s Country) was one of Australia’s greatest and most well-known actors, and the first Indigenous actor to make an international stamp. A Yolŋu man, Gulpili led a traditional lifestyle in the Arafura Swamp ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast) returns to the movie musical with KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, a dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy starring Deigo Luna, Tonatiuh, and Jennifer Lopez. Argentina, 1983. Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), a gay window dresse ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

GALA SCREENING: Thursday October 23, 6.50pm. Join us for an Advance Q&A Screening with filmmakers Angelo Pricolo and Shannon Swan. Ticket includes the post-film Q&A, a drink on arrival and entry to the after party at Brunetti Carlton. MATINEE FILM C ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 31 Oct 2025

HALOWEEN SCREENING! From the imagination of Tim Burton comes one of the greatest stop motion animated musicals ever made. Featuring ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in a pair of Oscar winners. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

40th ANNIVERSARY! Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend; maverick scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Directed by Robert ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Led by an incredibly committed and fearless performance from Jennifer Lawrence, DIE, MY LOVE is the new film from legendary auteur Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here, We Need to Talk About Kevin). Looking for a quieter life, young author Grace (Law ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday November 7, 7:10pm. Join director & co-producer Sophie Somerville, co-producer Carter Looker, and cast for a post-screening Q&A. Sophie Somerville’s honest and raw debut FWENDS is a Melbourne set festival darling, winning the B ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, and Richard E. Grant, NUREMBERG is the new WWII biopic from Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt. The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Shannon), have been tasked with ensuri ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Going behind the scenes of her administration and her private life, PRIME MINISTER follows Jacinda for seven years as she is catapulted to the top of New Zealand politics, becomes a feminist political icon, resigns suddenly from office and continues to ch ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

From Oscar nominees Clint Bently and Greg Kwedar, the duo behind Sing Sing, comes TRAIN DREAMS, a moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a family man whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th century America. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Nov 2025

Following triumphant performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present two animated Japanese hits. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! In a submerged city, a young girl continues to care for a large egg that she holds preciously ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

Celebrate the 10 year anniversary and see it on the big screen!

The real-life of one of America's foremost founding fathers ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

Looking after her ill daughter while her husband is away for business, Linda (Byrne) is a therapist that’s struggling to hold it all together. When her bedroom ceiling collapses and she’s forced to move into a hotel while caring for her child, the thread ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

In 1937, Kornyev (Alexander Kuznetsov), a young and naïve prosecutor, receives a letter written in blood from a prisoner alleging that the state secret police have abused their power and tortured him. Determined to meet the sender and learn about what’s o ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Nov 2025

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder - shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography... Five years in production, this ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! From multi award-winning filmmaker Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The White Ribbon) comes the classic millennial thriller starring Juliette ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

One week out from shooting his upcoming film, world famous actor Jay Kelly (Clooney), decides to shift gears and visit his family in Europe as he begins to reassess his career. Without a warning, he embarks on the trip, first stopping in Italy to accept a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

WICKED: FOR GOOD is part 2 of John M. Chu's adaptation of the Broadway phenomenon, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and Bowen Yang. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 22 Nov 2025

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco ... 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: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

With strikingly intimate access, MISTRESS DISPELLER explores the work of a ‘mistress dispeller’ – someone who is tasked with infiltrating and ending an affair. When Mrs Li finds out that her husband Mr Li is having an affair with the younger Fei Fei, she ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

Starring an ensemble cast including Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Josh Brolin (Weapons), Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and more, Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Nov 2025

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Al ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday November 30, 3:30pm. Join filmmaker Dawn Jackson and featured dancer Floeur Alder for a post-screening Q&A. POINTE DANCING ON A KNIFE'S EDGE is a captivating and moving documentary about Australian dancer Floeur Alder, daughter ... 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: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

Delving into the quirky yet heartfelt traditions of the sleepy Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge, THE GOLDEN SPURTLE documents the annual World Porridge Making Championships. Each year, local residents and competitors from across the globe gather t ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 13 Dec 2025

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary ... 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: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film MY BROTHER'S BAND follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music, starring a charming paring of Benjamin Lavernhe (Delicious) and Pierre Lottin (The Night of the 12th, When Fall ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) returns with SENTIMENTAL VALUE, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix and starring returning muse Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) alongside Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl) and Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown). Sist ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Dec 2025

From breakout star Harris Dickinson (Babygirl, Triangle of Sadness) comes URCHIN, his debut feature starring Frank Dillane (Harvest) that premiered at Cannes, where it won two awards. Mike (Dillane) is a young homeless man living in London, struggling to ... 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: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, a searing moral thriller that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an unassuming mechanic and former political prisoner, has a chance e ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 17 Jan 2026

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Margaret Qualley (Honey Don’t), and Andrew Scott (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) star in Richard Linklater’s (Boyhood) ensemble BLUE MOON, which won the Silver Bear at Venice for Best Supporting Performance for Scott ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Winner of Best Actor, Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at Cannes 2025, THE SECRET AGENT is a rousing and tense political thriller led by a captivating performance from Wagner Moura (Civil War). ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. The first new Met production of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hannah (Coleman), a film director, travels with her non-binary teenager Frances (Mason-Hyde) from Australia to Amsterdam to visit her gay father, Jim (Lithgow). But when Frances asks to stay abroad with their grandfather for a year, Hannah is forced to re ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hasan Hadi’s debut film THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE had its world premiere in Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, where won the section’s Audience Award and the Caméra d'Or. In 1990s Iraq, the young Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) lives with her ailing grandmother, Bibi ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 28 Feb 2026

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely? Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power a ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Mar 2026

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 2026

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 23 May 2026

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Jun 2026

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 25 Jul 2026

Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her, but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows, and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godards's "Breathless". ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

In a city ravaged by looting and economic collapse, married couple Esther and Tomás make a desperate choice: flee with their young daughter to their country house, bought in better days, with hopes of selling it quickly and escaping to a safer country. Bu ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

A writer befriends a retired serial killer in a desperate attempt to find inspiration for his next novel and save his marriage. Covering as his marriage counselor, the killer teaches him his methods as reality becomes deadlier than fiction. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

In Deathstalker, the Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege by the Dreadites, heralds of the long-dead sorcerer Nekromemnon. When Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield, he's marked by dark magick and hunted by monstrous a ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

Once a smug former child star, Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter) is now the unfortunate face of a shady megacorporation pushing questionable products in South America. But when Ricky and his misfit companions — the endlessly weird Ernie and idealistic Julie — ta ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

The metalhead splatter insanity returns in the sequel to 2015’s comedy horror hit, DEATHGASM. After thwarting a demon apocalypse (which he helped to create) Brodie is mourning the death of his best friend - the charmingly psychopathic Zakk. Unemployed and ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

In a 17th century Swedish Livonian village, constant rain and drunkenness prevail. When a stolen relic sparks witchcraft accusations, an 80-year-old self-proclaimed werewolf named the Dog of God arrives with a mysterious gift: The Devil’s Balls. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy spiraling into an out of control bender in which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

Calling all gorehounds and genre junkies — think you know your Argento from your Aster? Your slashers from your splatter? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test at Monster Fest Horror Movie Trivia, presented by Melbourne Horror Film Society. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

Murder City’s ambassador of twisted cinema, Dick Dale, returns to Melbourne with his latest Trasharama program, bursting at the screams with the grossest, goriest and greatest short films to grace a Trasharama yet. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi is presented in a brand new ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 17 Oct 2025

OPENING NIGHT GALA: Friday October 17 Celebrate the Opening Night of the Polish Film Festival with a complimentary drink on arrival and post-screening catering provided by Schnitz. A heartwarming, intergenerational road comedy about love and courage to p ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

A poignant exploration of love, vulnerability, and the courage to be your true self. Enriched by a soulful soundtrack that captures the film’s emotional core, PHOTOSENSITIVE is an unconventional love story that invites viewers to see the world through a d ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Oct 2025

In the spirit of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s cinema, an intimate drama starring two legends of Polish acting — Jan Englert and Anna Romantowska. Winner of the Young FIPRESCI award at the Warsaw Film Festival, THE CROSSROADS explores the quiet turning points in ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Oct 2025

From the creators of the Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA-nominated “Loving Vincent” comes a visually stunning adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winning novel ‘The Peasants’ by Władysław Reymont. Told through the changing seasons, the story centers on Jagna, a ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 25 Oct 2025

Smart, sincere, and deeply relatable, BEAUTIFUL is a heartfelt comedy-drama that tenderly unpacks how modern life and unrealistic expectations chip away at our self-worth and happiness. In a world obsessed with perfection, six women — each at a different ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 26 Oct 2025

Blending quiet humour, emotional depth, and cultural insight, MINGHUN is a moving cross-cultural journey through love, loss, and the bonds that transcend borders — and death. Starring one of Poland’s most popular actors, Marcin Dorociński, known internati ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 26 Oct 2025

A witty and masterfully crafted exploration of love, ego, and the fragile architecture of marriage, set against the backdrop of the eccentric world of theatre — where a narcissistic actor’s collapsing personal life eerily mirrors the roles he plays on sta ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

From legendary Polish director Juliusz Machulski — the mastermind behind cult classics “Vabank”, “Sexmission”, and “Kiler” — comes VINCI 2, the highly anticipated legacy sequel to his 2004 smash hit “Vinci”. Featuring an all-star cast including Robert Wię ... more