Films showing on Saturday, 9th August

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new story ... more

RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more

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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

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Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) return with the year’s most intense film, starring Sally Hawkins (Paddington) in her most wicked and disturbing performance to-date. ... more

Saturday, 9th August

The world's No. 1 cat video festival is returning to Nova this August!

CatVideoFest 2025 is a compilation of the latest ... more

Saturday, 9th August

Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic adventure ... more

Saturday, 9th August

WHAT THE FEST! David Cronenberg's daring CRASH is an unmatched psychological and erotic journey featuring an all-star cast of 1990s talent, including James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, and Elias Koteas. ... more

Saturday, 9th August

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

Saturday, 9th August

Based on Niall Williams' best-selling novel, FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE is a moving and heartbreaking romance starring an extraordinary ensemble cast including Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, Sweeny Todd), Gabriel Byrne (Miller’s Crossing), and Pierce Brosnan ... more

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A moving ode to friendship, grief, and healing, THE FRIEND stars Academy Award nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, and in his debut role, Bing, a 150-pound Great Dane. ... more

ADVANCE SCREENINGS: Wednesday July 16, 7.00pm. 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, ... more

An inspiring and rollicking journey through Europe, where eight children join Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film, 2040) to better understand the climate crisis. Millions of children around the world are frustrated by the dire lack of action to protect the pla ... more

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The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED M ... more

Saturday, 9th August

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

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

A tender and heartfelt portrayal of queer and cross-cultural love, A NICE INDIAN BOY stars Karan Soni (Deadpool) and Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter, Knock at the Cabin). ... more

After seven decades filming every aspect of the natural world, David Attenborough delivers his greatest message of hope in a spectacular new film, OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. ... more

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Daniel Minahan's period romance ON SWIFT HORSES stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Fresh), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Will Poulter (Warfare), Diego Calva (Babylon), and Sasha Calle. ... more

Saturday, 9th August

From Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scottland) and Sam Rice-Edwards (Meet Me in the Bathroom) comes ONE TO ONE: JOHN AND YOKO, an insightful and expansive look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono' ... more

Saturday, 9th August

Wim Wenders’ directs Koji Yakusho in the graceful and poetic drama PERFECT DAYS. From ‘Paris, Texas’ director Wim Wenders, PERFECT DAYS ... more

Saturday, 9th August

From one of the world's most beloved filmmakers, Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), comes a comic thriller of a wealthy industrialist targeted by nefarious individuals and shady organisations as he sets out to realise his most ambitious project of h ... more

Saturday, 9th August

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Japanese master Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a sixteenth-century Japan historical epic. ... more

Saturday, 9th August

Based on Raynor Winn's 2018 titular memoir, nature, and travel book, THE SALT PATH is a touching and profound story of love, loss, and hope. An honest and life-affirming true story of the healing power of the natural world, Marianne Elliott's di ... more

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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

Saturday, 9th August

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

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Inspired by remarkable true events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s engrossing dramedy, THE STOLEN PAINTING, follows an auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged by the discov ... more

Saturday, 9th August

41st ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION! In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by ... more

Saturday, 9th August

The directorial debut of Samoan-born, Aotearoa-based Miki Magasiva, TINĀ is an uplifting and inspiring story of love and perseverance. ... more

Saturday, 9th August

The debut feature from Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, TOGETHER is a squishy, fleshy horror of co-dependency starring real life couple ... more

Matthew Rankin’s absurdist triptych UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE was the winner of major awards at Cannes, Toronto, and Melbourne Film Festivals! ... more

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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

François Ozon’s darkly funny thriller WHEN FALL IS COMING leads from wild mushrooms to a layered and moving meditation on responsibility, human nature, and the knowability of truth ... more

Saturday, 9th August

Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Battling entrenched tradition, the duo dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. ... more

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