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After the Wedding
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2019
PRIVILEGE MEMBER ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday 17 October, 8.30pm $13 tickets! On sale now! Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore and Billy Crudup lead in ... more
Blinded by the Light
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2019
A heart-warming coming-of-age story of a teenager being helped through his formative years with the help of Bruce Springsteen, BLINDED ... more
Ready or Not
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2019
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, READY OR NOT is a guts-and-all romp that might make you rethink your ... more
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2019
Meet the Filmmaker - Tuesday October 29 – 6.45pm Tickets on sale below Join director Paul Downs Colaizzo and star Jillian Bell ... more
Happy Sad Man
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2019
HAPPY SAD MAN is a charming and uplifting insight into the lives of five very different Australian men. Following her ... more
Little Monsters
Opening Date: Friday, 1 Nov 2019
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o stars in this hilarious zombie-comedy from Australian filmmaker Abe Forsythe. LITTLE MONSTERS follows Dave (Alexander ... more
CineTrivia
Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 Nov 2019
No politics, sport or geography - just cinema! Film buffs unite, Cinema Nova brings you a monthly movie trivia event. ... more
At the Coliseum Deluxe
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2019
EVENT SCREENING: Thursday November 7, 6.30pm. Join Australian filmmaking legend Bruce Beresford in conversation following an event screening. Tickets on sale ... more
Emu Runner
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2019
The story of an Indigenous family dealing with the death of a mother is explored in Imogen Thomas’ debut feature, ... more
Pain & Glory
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2019
Pedro Almodóvar teams up again with his long-time collaborators Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in PAIN AND GLORY, a nostalgic ... more
Ford v Ferrari
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Nov 2019
Academy Award-winners Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in FORD v FERRARI, based on the remarkable true story of the ... more
Report, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Nov 2019
Limited event season! Oscar-nominee Adam Driver (BlackKklansman, Paterson) stars in gripping political thriller THE REPORT, in the vein of Zero ... more
Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest
Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Nov 2019
Across 2017/2018 Depeche Mode embarked on their Global Spirit Tour, in which they performed to more than 3 million fans ... more
Judy & Punch
Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Nov 2019
Acclaimed Australian actors Mia Wasikowska (Tracks) and Damon Herriman (Once Upon A Time . . . In Hollywood) star in ... more
Official Secrets
Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Nov 2019
Oscar nominee Keira Knightley stars in the true story of Katharine Gun – British intelligence specialist and ultimate whistleblower – ... more
By the Grace of God
Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2019
WINNER of the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear - Grand Jury Prize! The highly anticipated new film from acclaimed ... more
Knives Out
Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2019
Director Rian Johnson (Looper, The Brothers Bloom) turns his hand to whodunnit: murder mystery flick KNIVES OUT is his latest ... more
Walking on Water
Opening Date: Sunday, 1 Dec 2019
Espresso Cinema event Sunday December 1 – 6.30pm Sponsored by Campari. Show your ticket at the Bar to receive a discounted Campari ... more
Good Liar, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2019
Career con artist Roy Courtney (Ian McKellen) can hardly believe his luck when he meets wealthy widow Betty McLeish (Helen ... more
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2019
Nova exclusive! Described by both friends and enemies as ruthless, unscrupulous and flamboyant, lawyer Roy Cohn was a master manipulator ... more
Ideal Palace, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2019
Based on true events, director Nils Tavernier (The Finishers) paints a love story set in the late 19th century south ... more
Non-Fiction
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2019
Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds Of Sils Maria) reteams with leading lady of the latter, Juliette Binoche, for his new ... more
Wild Goose Lake, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2019
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam. ... more
Home Alone
Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Dec 2019
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by ... more
Love Actually
Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Dec 2019
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all ... more
Jojo Rabbit
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2019
Comedy maestro Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do In The Shadows) returns with another slice of oddball hilarity – ... more
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2019
A slow-burning and exquisitely shot two hours that details the relationship that builds between a painter, Marianne (Noémie Merlant) and ... more
Sorry We Missed You
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2019
Ken Loach (I Am Daniel Blake) returns with a raw drama representing the heart of modern Britain - and indeed ... more
Truth, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2019
Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Nobody Knows) makes his non-Japanese language debut with a Paris set all-star drama. Fabienne ... more
Biggest Little Farm
Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jan 2020
A documentary tackling environmental issues whilst following two farmers and their homestead, Apricot Lane Farm, BIGGEST LITTLE FARM shows us ... more
Just Mercy
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2020
A powerful and thought-provoking true story from director Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) about a young lawyer and his ... more
Peanut Butter Falcon, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2020
From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz in their first full-length feature, ... more
Lodge, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2020
Following up the trend of psychological horror films that worm their way into your brain and stay there, the Veronica ... more
Professor and the Madman, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2020
Screen stalwarts Mel Gibson and Sean Penn team up to tell the incredible true story of Professor James Murray and ... more
Motherless Brooklyn
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2020
Private detective Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton) is dealing with a lot: he’s unlucky in love, his friend Frank Minna (Bruce ... more
EFFA: Grit
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2019
Australia Premiere Winner Best International Documentary 2019 – Ecozine International Film & Environment Festival Winner Excellence in Documentary Production Jury Award ... more
EFFA: This Mountain Life
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2019
MEET THE MAKER EVENT Join us for a post-screening Q&A with Canadian filmmaker Grant Badlwin; award-winning director, cinematographer, editor and music ... more
PFF: Screwdriver
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2019
Ziad Bakri gives an intense, brooding performance as Ziad, who has spent all his adult life in prison for a ... more
PFF: It Must Be Heaven
Opening Date: Saturday, 2 Nov 2019
Elia Suleiman escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise ... more
PFF: Waiting for Faraj Allah
Opening Date: Saturday, 2 Nov 2019
Waiting for FarajAllah (inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot) takes us behind the scenes of a play in the ... more
PFF: Ibrahim: A Fate to Define
Opening Date: Sunday, 3 Nov 2019
In this provocative and personal documentary, director Lina Al Abed searches for traces of her missing father. On the face ... more
PFF: Weldi (Dear Son)
Opening Date: Sunday, 3 Nov 2019
Riadh is about to retire from his work as a forklift operator at the port of Tunis. The life he ... more
PFF: Shorts and Panel Discussion
Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 Nov 2019
A selection of short films and a panel discussion curated in partnership with 2019 Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference. ... more
IFFA: Castle of Dreams
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2019
OPENING NIGHT FILM! Ticket includes afterparty. Australian premiere. When mom is terminally ill at the hospital, dad comes along after ... more
IFFA: Repression
Opening Date: Friday, 8 Nov 2019
After a long time, three sisters come back to their paternal house. They face a caretaker along with their mother ... more
IFFA: Zaferaniyeh, July 5
Opening Date: Friday, 8 Nov 2019
After a two-month trip, Mahrokh, young daughter of Anousheh family, returns home to her wealthy family mansion in the northern ... more
IFFA: Captain Khorshid
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2019
The story takes place in a port town by the Persian Gulf. The captain is a one-armed middle aged loner ... more
IFFA: Labyrinth
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2019
Negar and Amirali are going to immigrate, but in the very last moment, they face a critical situation: their son, ... more
IFFA: My Second Year in College
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2019
There are two close friends, two university girls, going on an excursion to Isfahan. After an accident one of them ... more
IFFA: Tehran: City of Love
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2019
An ex bodybuilding champion now personal trainer, finds secret excitement in his life when he accepts to train a young ... more
NT Live: Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2019
‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths ... more
IFFA: Alive
Opening Date: Sunday, 10 Nov 2019
During Asma’s wedding night, her brother Jamal and her ex-lover’s brother get into a fight. Jamal kills the guy unintentionally ... more
IFFA: Old Men Never Die
Opening Date: Sunday, 10 Nov 2019
One-hundred-year-old Aslan, the head of a death squad in his youth, is living with his other single old fellows in ... more
IFFA: Zero Floor
Opening Date: Sunday, 10 Nov 2019
International Premiere Vahid comes to Tehran to stop the surgery of his four-year-old son Soheil but he finds out ... more
IFFA: Oath, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Nov 2019
Australian Premiere A woman, hell-bent on avenging her sister’s murder, takes 50 men and women from her family on ... more
IFFA: Symphony No. 9
Opening Date: Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019
Rahil is a surgeon and has lost her husband during surgery. She decides to kidnap her husband's body and bury ... more
Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh & Japan
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Nov 2019
“I envy the Japanese” Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. In the exhibition on which this film is ... more
Met Opera: Manon
Opening Date: Saturday, 23 Nov 2019
Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in ... more
Hermitage: The Power of Art
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 Nov 2019
Join us on a visually stunning journey through the daily life of the magnificent Hermitage museum, and retrace two and ... more
KBTC: Winter's Tale, The
Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Dec 2019
★★★★ The Guardian Recorded live at London's Garrick Theatre in 2015, Shakespeare's timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in ... more
NT Live: Hansard
Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Dec 2019
Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and ... more
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2019
Veteran British documentary-maker Nick Broomfield offers a highly personal view on the enduring love affair between Leonard Cohen and Marianne ... more
Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jan 2020
Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero ... more
Frida: Viva la Vida
Opening Date: Saturday, 25 Jan 2020
FRIDA: VIVA LA VIDA is a cinematic documentary that highlights Frida Kahlo’s two souls: the woman, fiercely independent and tormented ... more
NT Live: Present Laughter
Opening Date: Saturday, 1 Feb 2020
Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy PRESENT LAUGHTER. As he prepares to embark ... more
Met Opera: Akhnaten
Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Feb 2020
Met Premiere Director Phelim McDermott returns following his now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title ... more
Met Opera: Wozzeck
Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Mar 2020
New Production After wowing audiences with his astounding production of Lulu, South African artist William Kentridge now focuses his extraordinary visual ... more
Met Opera: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Apr 2020
New Production One of America’s favourite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson’s ... more
Met Opera: Agrippina
Opening Date: Saturday, 2 May 2020
Met Premiere Handel’s tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato ... more
Met Opera: Flying Dutchman, The
Opening Date: Saturday, 30 May 2020
New Production The great bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel returns to the company for the first time since 2012, in the title ... more
Met Opera: Tosca
Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Jun 2020
Soprano Anna Netrebko returns as Puccini’s explosive diva, back by popular demand. Tenors Najmiddin Mavlyanov and Brian Jagde alternate as ... more
Met Opera: Maria Stuarda
Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2020
Soprano Diana Damrau, following her triumph as Violetta in last season’s new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, stars as the ... more
