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Abyss, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Jun 2025
MOVIE EPIC! James Cameron’s classic 1989 sci-fi epics returns to the big screen fully restored.
The crew of an experimental, high-tech ... more
Midsommar: Director's Cut
Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Jun 2025
JOIN US FOR A WINTER SOLSTICE SCREENING!
Written and directed by visionary filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary, Beau Is Afraid) comes a ... more
My Beautiful Laundrette
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Jun 2025
40th ANNIVERSARY! Years ahead of its time, Stephen Frears (The Crying Game) directs Daniel Day Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in ... more
Wisdom of Happiness
Opening Date: Friday, 27 Jun 2025
LIMITED SCREENINGS - A deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly 90 years old, ... more
Story of Frank and Nina, The
Opening Date: Sunday, 29 Jun 2025
ESPRESSO CINEMA PRESENTS – THE STORY OF FRANK AND NINA (Opening Night – complimentary drink of Campari or Crodino on arrival) Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Magic Lantern Award, The Story of Frank and Nina is a vibrant and dynamic fable of three ... more
Grand Budapest Hotel + The Royal Tenenbaums
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
Shrouds, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025
From body horror maestro David Cronenberg comes his most personal film yet; THE SHROUDS, a new vision of the future starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce. ... more
Strange Days
Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY! Lenny (Ralph Fiennes), a former cop, faces dangerous challenges when he finds out that Jeriko, a political activist, ... more
Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Jul 2025
DOUBLE BILL! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON.
A ... more
Desperately Seeking Susan
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Starring Madonna in her first major on-screen role, cult classic DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN is a time-capsule of New York in the 80s. ... more
Grande Maison Paris
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025
GRANDE MAISON PARIS is an entertaining and mouthwatering culinary drama from director Ayuko Tsukahara, with the on-set cuisine supervised by Kei Kobayashi, the first Japanese chef to earn three Michelin stars in Paris ... more
Nice Indian Boy, A
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025
PRIDE MONTH ADVANCE SCREENING: Saturday June 28, 7.10pm. When Naveen (Karan Soni) brings his fiancé Jay (Jonathan Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them pla ... more
Stelarc – Suspending Disbelief
Opening Date: Sunday, 13 Jul 2025
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 13, 3.30pm. Melbourne based STELARC burst into prominence in the early 1970s with a series of confronting, and outrageous public art performances. Following his mantra that ‘the body is obsolete’ the Cypriot born Austral ... more
Amélie
Opening Date: Monday, 14 Jul 2025
SAVE THE DATE! Bastille Day Screening: Monday 14 July, 6.50pm. Vive la France! This Bastille Day, we’re playing the classic French whimsical romantic comedy! Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world of her own. Introverted, but with ... more
Breathless + Contempt
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Bastille Day with two French New Wave essentials from revered auteur Jean-Luc Godard. ... more
On Swift Horses
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
Daniel Minahan's new queer period romance ON SWIFT HORSES stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Fresh), Jacob Elordi (Priscilla), Will Poulter (Warfare), Diego Calva (Babylon), and Sasha Calle. In the 1950s, young couple Muriel (Edgar-Jones) and Lee (Poulter) make th ... more
Total Recall
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
35TH ANNIVERSARY! Paul Verhoeven's 1990 science fiction classic TOTAL RECALL stars a dynamite paring of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. ... more
Lady Bird + Dazed & Confused
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-school screening! Beat the back-to-school blues with a night of indie high school hits.
Greta Gerwig’s LADYBIRD is the ... more
Roger Waters This Is Not A Drill: Live From Prague
Opening Date: Wednesday, 23 Jul 2025
Roger Waters, founding member and creative force behind the legendary Pink Floyd, brings to the screen his live show, Roger ... more
Four Letters of Love
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025
FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE is a moving and heartbreaking romance starring an extraordinary ensemble cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne, and Pierce Brosnan ... more
Sense and Sensibility
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY! The exceedingly handsome SENSE AND SENSIBILITY was scripted by Emma Thompson and was Ang Lee's first English feature. The impeccable cast includes Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. ... more
2001: A Space Odyssey
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
Friend, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
THE FRIEND is a moving ode to friendship, grief, and healing, starring Academy Award nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, and in his debut role, Bing, a 150-pound Great Dane. ... more
Stolen Painting, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
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 discovery of a long-lost masterpiece. ... more
Together
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 13, 6.00pm. Join writer and director Michael Shanks for a post-film Q&A. The feature debut of Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, TOGETHER is a squishy, fleshy body horror starring real life couple Alison Br ... more
CatVideoFest 2025
Opening Date: Saturday, 2 Aug 2025
The world's #1 cat video festival is back with screenings in cinemas across the Australia, New Zealand and around the ... more
8 1/2 + La Strada
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
American Psycho
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Aug 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
My Neighbour Totoro + Spirited Away
Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Two iconic Studio Ghibli films back-to-back. ... more
Irena's Vow
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Aug 2025
Based on the Broadway play that was inspired by an incredible true story, IRENA'S VOW follows Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdyke, portrayed by Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), who hid Polish Jews during World War II. Employed as a house keeper by Nazi Ger ... more
Life of Chuck, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Aug 2025
ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday July 31, 7.00pm. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at the Toronto Film Festival! A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella, THE LIFE OF CHUCK details the life of Chuck Kranz, an ordinary ... more
Before Sunrise + Before Sunset
Opening Date: Tuesday, 19 Aug 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Richard Linklater's first two installments of the 'Before Trilogy' return to the screen for a romantic double feature.
Jesse ... more
A.I Artificial Intelligence
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
The Sleeper - The Lost Caravaggio
Opening Date: Sunday, 31 Aug 2025
ESPRESSO CINEMA PRESENTS – THE SLEEPER: THE LOST CARAVAGGIO
When an 80-year-old-woman from Madrid takes an old painting from her living ... more
Witch, The + Lighthouse, The
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
Sorry, Baby
Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025
From the Oscar Winning producers Adele Romanski (Aftersun) and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), comes SORRY, BABY, the directorial debut of writer and star Eva Victor. ... more
Your Name + Weathering With You
Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Sep 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Makoto Shinkai (Suzume) directs a pair of gorgeous animated romantic fantasies. ... more
Lesbian Space Princess
Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Sep 2025
An introverted space princess is forced to leave her home planet on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her ex-girlfriend from ... more
Basic Instinct + Mulholland Drive
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
Ferris Bueller's Day Off + Election
Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! A Matthew Broderick double feature featuring the star in two of his most iconic roles. ... more
Inter Alia: NT Live
Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025
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
Leopard, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
MOVIE EPIC! Burt Lancaster leads Luchino Visconti’s 19th century Italian epic. ... more
Twilight + New Moon
Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA SCREENING: Tuesday September 30, 6.50pm. To celebrate twenty years of sparkling vampires and spider monkeys, we’ve partnered with Readings to present a double feature of (the best films in the franchise) TWILIGHT and NEW MOON. We’ll ... more
Howl's Moving Castle + Laputa Castle in the Sky
Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more
Donnie Darko + Nightcrawler
Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Oct 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Jake Gyllenhaal delivers two of his finest performances across a pair of chilling psychological thrillers. ... more
Jennifer's Body + Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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
Favourite, The + Poor Things
Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in a pair of Oscar winners. ... more
Kiki's Delivery Service + The Boy and the Heron
Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present two animated Japanese hits. ... more
Man Who Fell to Earth, The + The Wicker Man (1973)
Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... more
Wicked: For Good
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
Dersu Uzala
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
Portrait of a Lady on Fire + Petite Maman
Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Céline Sciamma directs a pair of tender French dramas. ... more
Dressed To Kill + Body Double
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
Nope + Get Out
Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Jordan Peele teams with Daniel Kaluuya for a pair of modern horror classics. ... more
Citizen Kane + The Magnificent Ambersons
Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025
DOUBLE FEATURE! Orson Welles directs and stars in a pair of cinema classics! ... more
Right Stuff, The
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
Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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
Female Trouble
Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Jul 2025
Scratch & Sniff your way through John Waters' subversive FEMALE TROUBLE with your very own 'Bespoke Scented Souvenir Card' ... more
Michelangelo: Love and Death
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
MDFF Opening Night Shorts
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025
A collection of shorts to kick off the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival on opening night. ... more
MDFF Whoopee Blues
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025
MDFF OPENING NIGHT FILM: Tuesday July 15, 6.30pm. Join filmmaker Fiona Cochrane and artist Mic Conway for a post-film Q&A! A charming portrait of brother-duo Mic and Jim Conway’s passionate journey from humble Jellybean Jug Band to now famed Captain Matc ... more
MDFF Calm The F**k Down + Scars Unseen
Opening Date: Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025
Calm The F**k Down (Dir: Helen Gaynor – 40m)
In Australia, one woman is murdered by her current/former male partner every ... more
MDFF The Social Trap: 5 Women vs The Big 5
Opening Date: Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025
The Social Trap: 5 Women vs The Big 5 (Dir: Elisa Jadot – 80m) Following five women battling tech giants like Meta, The Social Trap exposes the public health crisis of screen addiction and their fight to protect children from digital harm. ... more
MDFF Her Shark Story
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
Her Shark Story (Dir: Ignacio Walker – 76m) A young marine biologist in Galapagos reconnects with her father through their shared ... more
MDFF Hot Water + Lifeblood
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
Hot Water: Investigating Australia's Marine Ecosystem (Dir: Ash Dunn – 51m)
A vibrant journey across Australia’s marine wonders, Hot Water highlights ... more
MDFF Disappear Here
Opening Date: Friday, 18 Jul 2025
Disappear Here (Dir: Ben deHoedt – 91m)
The vexed question of how to live an artistic life is illustrated in DISAPPEAR ... more
MDFF Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Elle
Opening Date: Friday, 18 Jul 2025
Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine (Dir: Alfonso Maiorana – 90m)
The forgotten story of Ellen McIlwaine, the ... more
MDFF Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
Opening Date: Friday, 18 Jul 2025
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin (Dir: Katia de Vidas – 65m)
An emotionally charged portrait of Libertines’ frontman Peter ... more
MDFF A Journey Between the Fires
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
A Journey Between the Fires is a deeply personal and compelling story following Award winning singer songwriter Troy Cassar-Daley as ... more
MDFF Fire at Sea: The HMAS Westralia Disaster
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
Fire at Sea: The HMAS Westralia Disaster (Dir: David Jenkins - 82m) A gripping investigation into the 1998 HMAS Westralia ... more
MDFF Palestinians Don’t Need Sidewalks + The Docto
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
Palestinians Don’t Need Sidewalks (Dir: Jill Pauline Hickson – 71m)
A raw journey through occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, this ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 1
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
The Dolphin Dilemma (Dir: Olivia Andrus-Drennan – 18m)
This film explores an international collaboration that, for the first time, proves that ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 2
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
Memory Collector (20m)
A specific description and director for a short film titled 'Memory Collector' with a runtime of 20 minutes ... more
MDFF Stupa
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Jul 2025
Stupa (Dir: Peter Downey – 52m)
The inside story of outsider art with Boinga Bob, an autistic artistic treasure from Australia ... more
MDFF By Far Kaymakchalan
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
By Far Kaymakchalan (Dir: Boris Trbić and Dragan Gavrilović – 60m)
Uncovering Australia’s forgotten WWI role alongside Serbian forces, By Far ... more
MDFF Reflections of Courage
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
Reflections of Courage (Dir: Janet Shay – 48m)
Reflections of Courage is a poignant 50-minute documentary chronicling the extraordinary journey of ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 3
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
Chasing Roo (Dir: Skye Fitzgerald – 34m)
An investigation into the harvesting of kangaroos in Australia, this film offers an intimate ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 4
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
How to Sue the Klan (Dir: John Beder – 34m)
In 1982, five Black women from Chattanooga successfully sued the Ku ... more
MDFF Space Cowboy
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
Space Cowboy (Dir: Marah Strauch and Bryce Leavitt – 95m)
An emotional odyssey of skydiving cinematographer Joe Jennings, Space Cowboy traces ... more
MDFF The Longer You Bleed
Opening Date: Sunday, 20 Jul 2025
This personal documentary follows displaced Ukrainians in Berlin contending with the traumatic absurdity of watching their homeland burn, in real-time, ... more
MDFF Deep Ecology + Farmacy of Light
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025
Deep Ecology (54m)
Deep Ecology delves into the profound interconnectedness of our personal and collective grief with the ecological and systemic ... more
MDFF Human Race
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025
Human Race (Dir: Simon David de-Tusch Alec – 100m) Following professor Eske Willerslev’s quest to map 5,000 ancient human DNA profiles, ... more
MDFF Johatsu
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025
A haunting documentary about Japan’s “evaporated people” who vanish to escape societal pressures, exploring their stories and the cultural factors ... more
MDFF The Definition of Happiness
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025
As the elusive pursuit of happiness continues to plunge humanity deeper into depression, Tim is forced onto a transformative journey, ... more
MDFF Clear Sky
Opening Date: Wednesday, 23 Jul 2025
Clear Sky (Dir: Michael Del Monte – 76m)
An unflinching portrait of Shawn’s battle with addiction and cultural disconnection, Clear ...
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MDFF Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe
Opening Date: Wednesday, 23 Jul 2025
Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe (Dir: Anthony Kelly – 53m)
A powerful portrait of Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe, Our ... more
MDFF A River in the Middle of the Sky
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025
MDFF NYAA WA
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025
NYAA WA (Dir: Charlie Braces – 60m) NYAA WA 'Take Care' is a Music Documentary featuring Naarm-based artist Charlie Needs ... more
MDFF Bonegilla - The Migrants Journey
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Jul 2025
Bonegilla - The Migrant's Journey (Dir: Simon Reich – 86m) After the Second World War, the Australian government decided to accept ... more
MDFF Before 1770: The Journey Home
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
Before 1770: The Journey Home (Dir: Wahyu Al Mardhani and Chris C.F. – 96m)
Challenging colonial narratives, ‘Before 1770’ uncovers the ... more
MDFF Dancing Against the Odds
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
Dancing Against the Odds (Dir: Matt Byrne – 64m)
In a stunning documentary accompanying the dance film Counterpoise, Dancing Against the ... more
MDFF Ferrari: Fury and the Monster
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
Ferrari: Fury and the Monster (Dir: Steve Hoover – 80m)
Ferrari: Fury And the Monster tells the story of Mauro Forghieri ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 5
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
Frozen Water (Dir: Anastasia Fetisov - 25m) Frozen Waters chronicles the awe-inspiring journey of endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh as he becomes the first person to swim beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. In this historic feat, Pugh swims 1 kilometre through su ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 6
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
The Broken Goddess (Dir: Ximena Pereira – 21m)
The myth of María Lionza, a Venezuelan jungle deity, intertwines with a migrant ... more
MDFF The Big Sea
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jul 2025
Exposing surfing’s toxic link to Neoprene and Cancer Alley, The Big Sea uncovers environmental racism and corporate greenwashing, urging the ... more
MDFF Noyce - The Not So Quiet Australian
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
Noyce - The Not So Quiet Australian (Dir: Ted McDonnell – 103m)
A sentimental homage to filmmaker Phillip Noyce, this documentary ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 7
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way (Dir: Stephanie Lane – 21m)
A family prepares for their mother's 60th birthday party while ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 8
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
WASKA: The Forest Is My Family (Dir: Nina Gualinga – 15m)
Set in a world post-environmental collapse, the film follows a ... more
MDFF Shorts Session 9
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
The Falcons (14m)
The Falcons is an intimate, observational documentary that explores the Tshakhruk Ethnoband in the highlands of Armenia, a ... more
MDFF The New Peasants
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
The New Peasants (Dir: Jordon Osmond – 66m)
An intimate portrait of a family’s 20-year transition to a sustainable, simple life, ... more
MDFF The Nicholas Building
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Jul 2025
The Nicholas Building (Dir: Mark Newbold – 90m)
The Nicholas Building in Melbourne's CDB has housed a community of artists and ... more
MDFF Piquancy Silent Heroes + Unlocking the Potent
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025
Piquancy Silent Heroes (Dir: Nandita Chakraborty - 54m)
Celebrating 16 unsung heroes from Melbourne’s diverse communities, Piquancy Silent Heroes highlights their ... more
MDFF Union
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025
A documentary directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing that chronicles the grassroots efforts of Amazon workers at the JFK8 ... more
MDFF After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come
Opening Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 2025
After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home (Dir: Sarah McCarthy – 80m)
Deep in a forest by the Baltic Sea, ... more
MDFF Left Behind
Opening Date: Wednesday, 30 Jul 2025
Left Behind (Dir: Anna Toomey – 76m)
Left Behind is the inspiring story of a group of determined and passionate moms ... more
MDFF The Invisible Doctrine
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
The Invisible Doctrine (Dir: Pete D Hutchison – 75m) George Monbiot deconstructs the roots, secretive propagation and deep impact of a ... more
MDFF The Strongman and the Last Days of the Khmer
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025
The Strongman and the Last Days of the Khmer Rouge (Dir: James Gerard – 110m)
A revealing portrait of Cambodia’s Hun ... more
MDFF Love in the Walls
Opening Date: Wednesday, 6 Aug 2025
Love in the Walls (Dir: Samuel Kostevc - 1hr)
In a Melbourne social housing community, this moving 60-minute documentary explores residents’ ... more
Caravaggio
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
Frida Kahlo
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