Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

60TH ANNIVERSARY! Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard's satirist science fiction-film noir ALPHAVILLE is back with a newly released restoration! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025

The phenomenal Adèle Exarchopoulos (Passages) and François Civil (The Three Musketeers), devour the screen in BEATING HEARTS. Gilles Lellouche’s vibrant, genre-spanning romantic epic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! A double dose of Witches!

Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Jun 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY! The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Jun 2025

GRAND 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

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Jun 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday June 1, 10.40am. Get a first look at Jessica Lange in THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL, directed by Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award winner Michael Cristofer. With an undeniable tour-de-force performance from Jessica Lange (All That J ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Jun 2025

A triumph of imagination, Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the world for capturing the spirit of Looney Tunes in a micro-budget slapstick comedy. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Jun 2025

THE ROOM is an audience interactive event complete with a Room Guide, loud cheering, quoting along lines, yelling at the screen and throwing LOTS of (eco friendly) spoons at the screen. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Pride Month with back-to-back queer coming-of-age cult favourites! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday June 7, 6.00pm. Join musician and star Warren Ellis for a post-film Q&A. Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary with the fly-on-the-wall documentary ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 2025

Capturing an extraordinary live performance of some of Zimmer's most revered compositions, HANS ZIMMER & FRIENDS: DIAMOND IN THE DESERT ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Jun 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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Jun 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Dive into Hayao Miyazaki’s magic with this fantasy adventure double feature of anime classics PRINCESS MONONOKE and NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman), and Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: NT LIVE. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

10TH ANNIVERSARY! Director Todd Haynes' Oscar nominated romantic drama starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Carrie Brownstein and Sarah Paulson returns ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 20 Jun 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Jul 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Wednesday June 18, 6.30pm. Join director Gabrielle Brady and producer Rita Walsh for a post film Q&A, moderated by AIDC's CEO and Creative Director Natasha Gadd. A young nomadic couple, Davaa and Zaya, live in the Mongolian desert wit ... more

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Celebrate Bastille Day with two French New Wave essentials from revered auteur Jean-Luc Godard. ... more

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2025

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two iconic Studio Ghibli films back-to-back. ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 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

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 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

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

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 accountant, told in reverse: from his death ... more

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

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

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

Opening Date: Friday, 5 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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Makoto Shinkai (Suzume) directs a pair of gorgeous animated romantic fantasies. ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! A Matthew Broderick double feature featuring the star in two of his most iconic roles. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Burt Lancaster leads Luchino Visconti’s 19th century Italian epic. ... more

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the ... 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: Thursday, 16 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: 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: Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... 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: 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: 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: 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, 24 Jul 2025

Based on Niall Williams' best-selling novel. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Jun 2025

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the ... more

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

Opening Date: Friday, 4 Jul 2025

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Jul 2025

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a ... more

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