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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
Love and Other Catastrophes + Gore Street, Fitzroy
Opening Date: Friday, 22 May 2026
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
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
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
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
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
Suspiria (1977) and The Fall
Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2026
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
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
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





