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DJ Ahmet

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Audience Award, DJ AHMET is a beautifully touching and comedic coming of age about life, love, and music. 15-year-old Ahmet (Arif Jakup) and his brother Naim (Agush Agushev) are growing up in a remote Macedonian village that’s ... more

Sheep Detectives, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026

In this irresistably witty mystery, shepherd George (Hugh Jackman) reads detective novels to his beloved flock every night, assuming they couldn't possibly understand him. ... more

Birthright

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026

WIN $10,000 cash with Coposit! Buy a ticket to our BIRTHRIGHT Q&A on Tuesday May 12, 6pm to go in the draw! Director Zoe Pepper and stars Maria Angelico and Travis Jeffery will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A. Moderated by Flick Ford (RRR). ... more

Fight Club and Starship Troopers

Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two provocative satires, both overlooked at their time of release, which have endured to become timeless cult classics.

An ... more

Going Down

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Four friends leave their share house to explore the pool rooms, drag shows and bars of Sydney before crash-landing in Bondi. It’s the night before Karli goes to New York and the lives of this tight knit group will change to forever after a ... more

Moulin Rouge!

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! Baz Luhrmann's MOULIN ROUGE is a stunning high-wire act of performance, production and music that rewrote the musical rulebook for the 21st century. The year is 1899, and Christian (Ewan McGregor) has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revo ... more

Pike River

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

Melanie Lynskey (Yellow Jackets, The Last of Us) and Robyn Malcolm (Top of the Lake) star in PIKE RIVER, an inspiring true story of adversary in the face of loss. When the Pike River Mine disaster happened in 2010, it was the country’s worst mining disas ... more

To Sir, with Love

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 May 2026

Idealistic, yet unemployed, Black American Engineering graduate Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) takes on a temporary position teaching a group of rambunctious White high school students from London's East End slum neighborhood ... more

Dreams and Where the Wild Things Are

Opening Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026

Tuck in and see where the night takes you... Akira Kurosawa directs DREAMS, a movie inspired by the master filmmaker's own subconscious experiences. Packed with dazzling imagery steeped in Japanese culture, an enormous cast (including Martin Scorsese as ... more

Franz: Becoming Kafka

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday May 17, 10.45am. Oscar-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Green Border) returns with FRANZ, a chronicling of one of literature’s most studied authors, told through the same audacious surrealism present in his works. Longi ... more

From All Sides

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Bina Bhattacharya’s family drama FROM ALL SIDES explores the search for identity, culture, and sexuality in the outer suburbs of Sydney. Happily married parents Anoushka (Monique Kalmar) and her bisexual husband Pascal (Max Brown) lead a covert life navi ... more

In the Heat of the Night

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Winner of 5 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay! Black Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town. After being clea ... more

Richest Woman In The World, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Isabelle Huppert stars as a fictionalised version of billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt in THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. Marianne Farrère (Huppert), head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte ... more

www.RachelOrmont.com

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026

Rachel Ormont (Betsey Brown) lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled, craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency ... more

G'DAY MAY! Zoe Coldham’s documentary GORE STREET, FITZROY traces the history of Fitzroy’s storied residential street through a series of interviews with longstanding residents. 30th ANNIVERSARY! The trouble with love is you never know when it’s going to s ... more

Somersault

Opening Date: Friday, 22 May 2026

KOKO RECOMMENDS! RESTORATION! Nova Film Club host Koko presents Cate Shortland's feature debut starring Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington and Lynette Curran in a gothic Australian drama of a young woman who settles in a small mountain community after fleeing ... more

Eugene Onegin: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 23 May 2026

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the ... more

Heat

Opening Date: Tuesday, 26 May 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Michael Mann directs Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in a cat-and-mouse thriller of a master thief who continues to evade arrest by police. As he plans his final heist, a dogged detective gradually closes in on the thief and his gang. ... more

Backrooms

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026

Based on the web series which took the world by storm, Kane Parsons makes his feature debut with BACKROOMS, a psychological horror set in a world on the edge of reality. Furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on the brink of closing his busine ... more

H is for Hawk

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026

Q&A SCREENING: Wednesday May 13, 6.30pm. Experience the film at our special virtual Q&A with author Helen Macdonald on 13 May, before it hits cinemas on 28 May. Not to be missed! Based on a true story and a memoir of the same name, H IS FOR HAWK is a soar ... more

Power Ballad

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday May 22, 7.15pm. Join us for an Advance Screening of POWER BALLAD and enjoy a choice of a Guinness or sparkling wine on arrival. From writer/director John Carney (Sing Street, Begin Again) comes POWER BALLAD, a comedy about music, ... more

Malcolm

Opening Date: Friday, 29 May 2026

G'DAY MAY! 40th ANNIVERSARY! AFI Award winner Colin Friels stars as an eccentric tram enthusiast whose new boarders reveal a secret that could change all their lives. Directed by husband-and-wife team Nadia Tass and David Parker (The Big Steal), MALC ... more

Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The

Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner (Bogart) struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husb ... more

Audience, The: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in encore screenings of the original West End production of The Audience, captured live in London in 2013, and featuring an exclusive new Q&A with key members of the cast a ... more

Christophers, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

The latest film from one of cinema’s most prolific directors, Steven Soderbergh (Black Bag, Ocean’s Eleven), THE CHRISTOPHERS is a richly comedic exploration of art and legacy led by a magnetic paring of Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel (Mother Mary). Clos ... more

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

SAVE THE DATE! Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day advent ... more

North, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

A breathtaking exploration of the Scottish Highlands, THE NORTH is tender exploration of the self and those closet to us, shot entirely on location. Chris (Bart Harder) and Lluis (Carles Pulido) two old friends who were once inseparable, reconnect after ... more

Shortbus

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

20TH ANNIVERSARY! John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and ... more

Sound of Falling

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Jun 2026

Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize-winner SOUND OF FALLING is a beautifully woven tale of memory and girlhood, told across four generations of the same family. At different times throughout recent history, Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angel ... more

Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Petite Maman

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Céline Sciamma directs a pair of tender French dramas. ... more

Colony

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Jun 2026

From the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula, Yeon Sang-ho, comes the South Korean horror COLONY. Professor Se Jeong (Jun Ji-hyun) attends a biotech conference-only to witness it spiral into catastrophe when a rapidly mutating virus is unleashed. As ... more

Mommie Dearest

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Jun 2026

45TH ANNIVERSARY! The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan ... more

Tuner

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Jun 2026

The debut narrative feature from Daniel Roher (Navalny), TUNER is a slick and stylish heist thriller starring up-and-comer Leo Woodall (One Day, Nuremberg), Dustin Hoffman, and Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms). With his once-promising musical career over, Niki ... more

Lost Boys, The and The Hunger

Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Jun 2026

Who knew sucking blood could be so sexy? ... more

Leviticus

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

Adrian Chiarella directs acclaimed supernatural thriller LEVITICUS, a tale of two star-crossed teenage boys living in small-town Australia who must ... more

Maurice

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

RESTORATION! High Grant, James Wilby, Denholm Elliot, Rupert Graves, Simon Callow and Ben Kingsley star in MAURICE, James Ivory’s prize-winning ... more

Last Dream of Frida and Diego, The: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Jun 2026

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, ... more

Challengers and Saltburn

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Jun 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Thirst-trap gems from Luca and Emerald.

From Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All) comes a ... more

Ice Tower, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Jun 2026

A darkly beautiful reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale, THE ICE TOWER is a richly textured meditation on longing, isolation, and desire. In the 1970s, runaway teenage orphan Jeanne (Clara Pacini) flees her isolated, mountainous life to th ... more

Playboy of the Western World, The: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Jun 2026

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play ... more

Midsommar - Director's Cut

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Jun 2026

WINTER SOLSTICE SCREENING: Saturday June 21, 7.30pm. Written and directed by visionary filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary, Beau Is Afraid) comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. After losing her family ... more

100 Nights of Hero

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Jul 2026

Playfully led by trio Maika Monroe, Emma Corrin, and Nicholas Galitzine, 100 NIGHTS OF HERO is a stylish, period-set fantasy adorned with love, lies, and lust. When her neglectful husband leaves their castle for 100 nights, Cherry (Monroe) finds herself ... more

Le Samouri and Tokyo Drifter

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

New Wave noir from France and Japan

French and Japanese languages, English subtitles

... more

MDFF26 From Depression With Love

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 7, 6.45pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A deeply personal exploration of living with and overcoming depression, FROM DEPRESSION WITH LOVE shares intimate stories of struggle, healing, and r ... more

MDFF26 Opening Night Shorts

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

SESSION INTRODUCTION: Tuesday July 7, 8.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. Opening Night Shorts: DAD VS. BEES (20:29, David Quach) — A 79-year-old Asian man battles a bee infestation in his garden while navigating age, language ... more

MDFF26 Planet Sun

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

Join Andy Evans, Australian renewable energy pioneer, on a sweeping journey through ten countries where humanity’s bond with the sun has shaped civilisation, science, and survival. PLANET SUN carries viewers from the pyramids of Teotihuacán and Chichén I ... more

MDFF26 Going Dry + Health Shorts

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Jul 2026

SESSION INTRODUCTION: Wednesday July 8, 5.50pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. Leading alcohol-free advocate Andy Ramage guides moderate drinkers across the US, UK, and Canada through a 90-day break from alcohol in GOING DRY. The ... more

MDFF26 Two of Us + Sports Shorts

Opening Date: Wednesday, 8 Jul 2026

After suffering tragedy, Tim Edwards embarks on an epic national walk right across the UK with comedian John May in TWO OF US. Together they confront grief, unravel personal demons, forge unexpected connections, and inspire others to find hope amid profou ... more

Invite, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026

Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Olivia Wilde) are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. ... more

MDFF26 Anxiety Club + Comedy Shorts

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026

SESSION INTRODUCTION: Thursday July 9, 6.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. Stand-up comedians openly share their battles with anxiety, therapy sessions, and daily coping mechanisms. Through humour and honesty, ANXIETY CLUB reve ... more

MDFF26 Coexistence, My Ass

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jul 2026

Comedian and peace activist Noam Shuster Eliassi delivers a sharp, satirical one-woman show that confronts the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Shot between 2019 and 2024, COEXISTENCE, MY ASS follows Eliassi’s stand-up routine while traci ... more

MDFF26 40 Years of F*cking Up

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Jul 2026

40 YEARS OF F*CKING UP is the unbelievable story of how a group of untalented teenage punks became the most successful independent band in history; NOFX. Told with raw energy and humour, the film reveals their haphazard journey filled with chaos, determin ... more

MDFF26 Building The Beatles

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Jul 2026

Featuring never before seen footage of the most seminal rock band in music history, BUILDING THE BEATLES is an unprecedented look at the players who have been left out of the story of The Fab Four’s meteoric rise… until now. Journey back to meet Mona Best ... more

MDFF26 Don't Forget Me

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Jul 2026

The first official biography of rock ’n’ roll pioneer Eddie Cochran. Featuring never-before-seen archival material, dramatic recreations, and powerful testimonies from legends including Keith Richards, Sting, Rod Stewart, and Alice Cooper, DON'T FORGET ME ... more

MDFF26 Acropolis Cats and Other Wondrous Creatures

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 11, 5.00pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Exploring the lives of stray cats in Athens and beyond, ACROPOLIS CATS AND OTHER WONDROUS CREATURES examines the tenderness and tragedies in human- ... more

MDFF26 Brother vs. Brother + Experimental Shorts

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

SESSION INTRODUCTION: Saturday July 11, 6.20pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Inspired by live cinema, BROTHER VERSUS BROTHER is a one-take musical that follows combative twin musicians as the ... more

MDFF26 Eyes Like Diamonds

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 11, 7.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Passionate conservationist Neil Waters embarks on a decade-long search through Tasmania’s wilderness to prove the Tasmanian Tiger still exists. Onc ... more

MDFF26 Maypilama + First Nations Shorts

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 11, 1.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. In a remote Yolŋu island community, Elder Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama works to return birthing to Country. Navigating ancestral laws, colonial resistance, a ... more

MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 1

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 11, 10.15am. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. STRANGER IN THE WORLD (Sturla Pilskog 29.50mins) Follows a filmmaker, his autistic son, and a composer's earth-inspired work. A MAGIC THREAD (15: ... more

MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 2

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 11, 1.00pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. SCRAP (17.01 Noémie Lobry) The corridors of a consciousness invaded by broken cars, where images of the past, present and possible futures coex ... more

MDFF26 Jimmy Somerville: Smalltown Boy + Shorts

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 3.45pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. The story of frontman Jimmy Somerville, the rebellious singer who became the English voice of gay and minority rights. From Bronski Beat to The Commu ... more

MDFF26 Out Laws + Queer Shorts

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 5.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Friedel Dausab challenges Namibia’s criminalisation of same-sex love in a landmark court case. The film traces colonial and religious roots of anti-q ... more

MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 3

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 10.15am. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. KALEIDOSCOPE (40m): Micro shorts from around the world. CROC COUNTRY (Sinead Reynold 20:05) In tropical North Queensland, locals must share the ... more

MDFF26 Shorts Sessions 4

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 12, 1.10pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. KALEIDOSCOPE (45m) short docs. GOING COASTAL (16:15, Henry Smith) — Couple's simple life climbing, gardening, and birding on remote Flinders Island. ... more

MDFF26 The Marbles

Opening Date: Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

THE MARBLES is the story of the greatest art heist in history and the fight to change a great wrong. In 1801, Lord Elgin removed half of the Parthenon, causing a scandal among his contemporaries. What followed was a 200-year battle between Greece and the ... more

Amélie

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

SAVE THE DATE! Bastille Day Screening: Tuesday 14 July, 6.50pm. Vive la France! This Bastille Day, we’re playing the classic French whimsical romantic comedy! Enjoy a sparkling wine on arrival. Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world ... more

Clockwork Orange, A + Full Metal Jacket

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! It's a double feature of two Stanley Kubrick classics. Malcolm McDowell stars in the sci-fi satire based on the novel by Anthony Burgess. Gang leader Alex (McDowell) lives a life filled with crime, sex and the music of Ludwig Van Beetho ... more

MDFF26 Bound By Distance

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 8.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Six Australian runners and their support crew tackle the world’s longest, hardest unsanctioned race — the 550km Speed Project from LA to Las Vegas. ... more

MDFF26 Shared Table Regional Heros

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 6.45pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Four unsung migrant heroes in regional Victoria open their kitchens to a travelling film crew. What begins as a quest for connection becomes a deepl ... more

MDFF26 Wide Horizons

Opening Date: Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday July 14, 6.20pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. An intimate portrait of critically acclaimed regional dance company Dancenorth based in tropical North Queensland. The film follows the company on a ... more

MDFF26 Everything We Need Is Here

Opening Date: Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026

Drawn by a primal instinct to forage, Tiffany wanders Manitoba’s boreal forests in search of wild mushrooms — and something far deeper. Living with complex PTSD, she finds in Nature a refuge that offers calm, clarity, and connection. In Winnipeg’s threate ... more

MDFF26 How To Kill A Mermaid

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday July 16, 8.50pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A heart-wrenching true-crime documentary re-examining the 2020 death of 18-year-old Linnea Mills during a cold-water scuba dive in Montana’s Glacie ... more

MDFF26 Whistleblower + David McBride: Declassified

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Thursday July 16, 6.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. WHISTLEBLOWER (Marc Bauder, 91 min): Follows Africa’s most important whistleblower Jean-Jacques Lumumba, former NSA intelligence analyst Daniel Hal ... more

MDFF26 Dead Parents Club

Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday July 17, 8.40pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A hybrid documentary exploring parental loss through real stories interwoven with the orphan trope in popular culture. Participants perform iconic sc ... more

MDFF26 No Limbs No Limits

Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday July 17, 8.30pm. Join the filmmaker live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Born without arms or legs in Melbourne, Nick Vujicic and his family fought Australia’s education system to change disability integration nationwide. T ... more

MDFF26 Spirit Of The Photobooth

Opening Date: Friday, 17 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday July 17, 6.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A warm celebration of photobooth culture and its enduring role in capturing spontaneous moments, self-expression, and memory across generations. ... more

MDFF26 Docs After Dark

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

SESSION INTRODUCTION: Saturday July 18, 8.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for an introduction. THE MAN WHO SAW THEM ARRIVE (Zev Howley, 71 min): In January 1968, the quiet life of Melbourne resident Colin Cameron was shattered following a myster ... more

MDFF26 Love Letter to the Unseen + Sensing Home

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 5.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. LOVE LETTER TO THE UNSEEN (45 min, Josh Murphy) follows youth conservationist Spencer Hitchen on his journey of discovery to understand the imminen ... more

MDFF26 Making Infinity

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

An intimate observation of the creative process of Australian & Chinese artists navigating simmering tensions & their cultural differences; in an attempt to create a contemporary performance ritual that involves the entire audience moving in unison to mak ... more

MDFF26 Silver Screamers

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 6.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. A heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary following spirited senior citizens who step far outside their comfort zones to create their own horro ... more

MDFF26 Somewhere After

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 3.30pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Seven Australians share their isolation hopes, dreams, and fears via video calls early in the pandemic. Three years later they revisit those record ... more

MDFF26 Tycho! + Pushing the Boundaries

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday July 18, 10.15am. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. TYCHO! Beyond the Baton (Stephan Wellink, 95 min): The little-known personal story of child prodigy Maestro Tommy Tycho — Holocaust survivor, pian ... more

MDFF26 Wim Wenders Retrospective

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Jul 2026

A retrospective of documentary shorts from acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders (Perfect Days, Paris, Texas). ROOM 666 (1982, 50m) Shot during the ... more

MDFF26 Australian Dream

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026

Six underdog surfers from a tiny village in Portugal travel to Australia and take on the world elite in one of the country’s most iconic surfing championships, embodying determination and unexpected triumph. ... more

MDFF26 Language Of Light (Session 1)

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 4.10pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Three different Australian photographers, each with a different photographic style, discuss their lives and their work. Tony Mott – Rock ‘n roll pho ... more

MDFF26 Language Of Light (Session 2)

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 6.20pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Three different Australian photographers, each with a different photographic style, discuss their lives and their work. Ruth Maddison - Feminist Pho ... more

MDFF26 Nova 78

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026

A time capsule from the underground: restored footage from the legendary 1978 Nova Convention featuring William Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, and other counterculture icons, reimagined for today’s audiences. ... more

MDFF26 Resisting Caste(ism) In Australia

Opening Date: Sunday, 19 Jul 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday July 19, 12.15pm. Join the filmmakers live in-cinema for a post-screening Q&A. Filmmaker Dr Vikrant Kishore travels 3,500 kilometres across Australian cities, speaking with Dalit community members and allies about persistent ca ... more

Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich

Opening Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two Academy Award winning, mind-bending black comedies from Charlie Kaufman

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND stars Jim Carrey ... more

Colours Of Time (La Venue De L’Avenir)

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026

Moving between contemporary Normandy and the final years of the 19th century, COLOURS OF TIME is a French drama that brings together family, history, and artistic curiosity. When four estranged cousins inherit a long-abandoned house in Normandy, their in ... more

Les Liaisons Dangereuses: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 2026

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation ... 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

2001: A Space Odyssey

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 2026

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

North By Northwest and Strangers On A Train

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Aug 2026

DOUBLE BILL! Alfred Hitchcock directs two must-see thrillers that forever changed cinemas.

Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, ... more

Blade Runner: Final Cut + Dune (1984)

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2026

Iconic science fiction from the early 80s ... more

Taxi Driver and Raging Bull

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 2026

The ultimate collabs of DeNiro and Scorsese ... more

Barry Lyndon

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026

Kubrick directs cinema's finest rise and fall ... more

Wild At Heart and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 2026

The ultimate road trips from the trippiest directors ... more

Wake In Fright and Razorback

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 2026

In the outback, no one can hear you scream ... more

Donnie Darko and Leon: The Professional

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Star-making cult classics ahead of their time.


Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a dysfunctional, upper-middle ... more

Solaris and Persona

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! A science fiction epic, and a psychological drama from two of Europe’s greatest arthouse filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS ... more

Interstellar

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2026

MOVIE EPIC! In director Christopher Nolan’s vision of the future, the Earth is no longer a reliable source of food as crops continue to die out due to environmental catastrophe. One-time pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) discovers a plan by NASA to ... more

Possession and The Babadook

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026

Various languages, English subtitles

... more

Suspiria (1977) and The Fall

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2026

Visually dazzling adventures from Argento and Tarsem

Various languages, English subtitles

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Jennifer's Body and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026

DOUBLE BILL: Demonic Double! Join us to watch cult classics JENNIFER’S BODY and the 1992 film BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ... more

Shining, The

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2026

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ... more

V For Vendetta and Civil War

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Nov 2026

The ultimate "that could never happen here" double ... more

Lighthouse, The and The VVitch

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2026

Two folk horror favourites from director Robert Eggers ... more

Grey Gardens and Sans Soleil

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Twentieth century documentaries that broke the mould and pushed the genre into new spaces.

GREY GARDENS is a documentary ... more

Eyes Wide Shut

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... more

Touch of Evil and Double Indemnity

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Dec 2026

Revenge thriller masterpieces from Welles and Wilder ... more

Howl's Moving Castle + Laputa Castle in the Sky

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026

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

Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 2026

DOUBLE BILL: It's a hair-burning, ice-slipping, glass-decoration-crushing, iron-to-the-face double feature as Macauley Culkin stars as Kevin McAllister, the innocent young ... more

Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 2026

DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more

Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical Cut)

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2026

Ingmar Bergman's 4-time Oscar winning masterpiece

Various languages, English subtitles

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Big Book Club THE ODYSSEY Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

Introducing The Readings Big Book Club. Bringing thinkers and readers together to explore great works of literature. Our inaugural five-part ... more

Big Book Club THE ODYSSEY Online

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

Introducing The Readings Big Book Club. Bringing thinkers and readers together to explore great works of literature. Our inaugural five-part ... more

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