Films showing on Monday, 5th May
RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more
Exploring the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise, BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN is told in the band's own words. ... more
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
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
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) directs an audacious American epic, starring Adrien Brody (The Pianist) as a visionary brutalist architect. When ... more
A meditative exercise in filmmaking, THE CATS OF GOKOGU SHRINE is a joyous and thought-provoking observation of coexistence that premiered to great acclaim at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. ... more
Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold's A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history. ... more
On Christmas Eve 2014 in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Australian journalist Peter Greste (Richard Roxburgh) is reporting from the most dangerous city on earth, where daily bloody clashes between student revolutionaries and the government tak ... more
Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic adventure ... more
Documented for the first time, audiences are afforded a rare behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of Dale Frank, Australia’s most eccentric and reclusive artist ... more
From A24 and executive produced by Ari Aster. Alex Scharfman’s debut feature DEATH OF A UNICORN fearlessly blends genre to delightfully bizarre effect, from amusing satire to full-blooded monster horror. ... more
Super green! Luc Besson's visually spectacular intergalactic adventure THE FIFTH ELEMENT returns to Cinema Nova for a five-star fifth of the fifth screening event. Since its debut in 1997 THE FIFTH ELEMENT has gone on to become a cult favourite thanks to ... more
From the producers behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies comes FLAT GIRLS, Jirassaya Wongsutin’s beautiful and tender debut. Raised in ‘the flats’, a complex designated for the hundreds of families of police officers, Jane (Kirana Pipityakorn) ... more
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. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated ... more
Celebrated Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) directs a masterful historical drama based on a true story. ... more
Selected as Sweden's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, THE LAST JOURNEY is the most-watched documentary in Swedish history. When Lars Hammar retires after 40 years as a beloved French teacher in Köping, he envisions a ... more
Pamela Anderson gives the performance of her career in Palo Alto director Gia Coppola's THE LAST SHOWGIRL. After performing in Las Vegas stage production 'Le Razzle Dazzle' for over thirty years, dancer Shelly (Anderson) is startled to learn that the sh ... more
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 rem ... more
A multi-award winning and eye-opening documentary that follows a Palestinian community’s forced expulsion from their homes through the eyes of West Bank lawyer and activist, Basel, and his friend Yuval, an Israeli journalist. ... more
Oscar nominee Steve Coogan stars in THE PENGUIN LESSONS, inspired by the true story of British schoolteacher Tom Michell who made an unlikely friend when working in a school in Argentina. The year is 1976. Tom (Coogan) lands in Buenos Aires to take up a ... more
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 SACRED FIG centres on a family thrust into a life of parano ... more
Returning to the screen for his first role since his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is outstanding in this adaptation of Claire Keegan's Booker Prize nominated novel, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE. Christmas 1985. Bill Furlong (Murphy ... more
The directorial debut of Samoan-born, Aotearoa-based Miki Magasiva, TINĀ is an uplifting and inspiring story of love and perseverance. ... more
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection. From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River), AN UNFINISHED FILM blurs the lines between reality and fiction to craft a creative and absorbing portrait of resilience and courage. In January 2020, director Xiaorui ... more
RESTORATION! Brutal, uncompromising and stunning, director Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT finds young teacher, John Grant (Gary Bond) arriving in ... more
20TH ANNIVERSARY! A musician from San Francisco finds meaning to his life when he starts to care for dozens of ... more