Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday October 10, 7:00pm. Join us for the exclusive Melbourne premiere of AFTER THE HUNT, with a live post-screening Zoom Q&A between director Luca Guadagnino and moderator Zak Hepburn. From visionary filmmaker and Nova favourite ... more

Charles (Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island in Wales, dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer back together. In a creative crisis and fiscally thin, Herb McGwyer (Basden), one half of the folk duo, acc ... more

A defining comedic voice who wrote and appeared in numerous films and TV productions, and who – in a beloved double act with Bryan Dawe – skewered political hypocrisy for almost 30 years on current affairs shows, John Clarke gave away very little about hi ... more

Starring Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two, The Bikeriders) and Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), Darren Aronofsky’s (The Whale) CAUGHT STEALING is a comedic action-lead time capsule of New York in the 90s. Hank Thompson (Butler) was a high-school baseball phenomeno ... more

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

30TH ANNIVERSARY! “As if!” snarks Cher with just the right amount of disdain and sardonic eye-roll in iconic film of ... more

The cinematic return of the global phenomenon, DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE follows the Crawley family and their staff as ... more

Ari Aster is back with the COVID thriller EDDINGTON, a pressure-cooker look at a town reaching a social boiling point, starring Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid), Pedro Pascal (Materialists), Emma Stone (Poor Things), and Austin Butler (The Bikeriders). ... more

Andrew DeYoung's whip-smart debut feature FRIENDSHIP has quickly become one of the most anticipated comedies of the year, starring Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave), Paul Rudd (Death of a Unicorn, Clueless), and Kate Mara (The Martian). ... more

Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley and a transformed Chris Evans (Materialsts) star in HONEY DON’T! the second solo feature from Ethan Coen (Fargo) after 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls. ... more

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

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

A laugh-out-loud adventure through the far reaches of queer outer space, LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS showcases the incredible talents of debut South Australian writers/directors Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs. ... more

Academy Award nominated director of Past Lives, Celine Song, once again draws from her own past with this tale of a N ... more

From director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights) comes a darkly comic thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and newcomer Chase Infiniti. ... more

A reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, THE ROSES is a black comedy about the bitterness of divorce, scripted by Australian Tony McNamara (The Favourite, Poor Things) and starring a stellar ensemble cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Oli ... more

INTERACTIVE GODDESS EDITION SCREENING! Join us at Cinema Nova on Friday October 10 for an audience-interactive screening of critically derided ... more

From one of the most exciting new voices in filmmaking, Ryan Coogler's (Creed, Black Panther) SINNERS is an adventerous, mystifying, and unpredictable supernatural horror set 1930s Mississippi. ... more

Benny Safdie’s (Uncut Gems, Good Time) solo debut THE SMASHING MACHINE arrives fresh from its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where Safdie won the Silver Lion for best director, and stars a transformed Dwayne Johnson and Emi ... more

From the Oscar Winning producers Adele Romanski (Aftersun) and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), comes SORRY, BABY, the directorial debut of writer and star Eva Victor. Agnes (Victor) is a graduate student who's become a professor at the college she once attend ... more

Starring Dakota Johnson (Materialists), Adria Arjona (Hit Man, Blink Twice), and co-writers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, SPLITSVILLE had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. ... more

The debut feature from Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, TOGETHER is a squishy, fleshy horror of co-dependency starring real life couple Alison Brie (Promising Young Woman) and Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist). ... more

A poignant, funny and heartwarming family story set in Western Australia, THE TRAVELLERS is the new film from acclaimed director Bruce Beresford (Ladies In Black, Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy). ... more

From director Zach Cregger (Barbarian) comes an unpredictable thriller set in a small town where seventeen children disappear in the middle of the night. WEAPONS stars Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong and Amy Madig ... more

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival is delighted to present Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated new drama La Grazia ... more

In 1949, the Italian city of Naples lies in ruins after the devastation of WWII. Amidst the poverty and rubble-strewn streets of the city, two children, Carmine and Celestina (newcomers Antonio Guerra and Dea Lanzaro), try to survive as best they can by h ... more

From Fabio Grassadoni and Antonio Piazza (Sicilian Ghost Story), this fictionalised mafia story features standout performances from Elio Germano and ... more

Narrated by Italian-Australian actress Greta Scacchi, this fascinating documentary written, directed and produced by the creators of LYGON ST - ... more

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

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