Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

Cannes Film Festival Official Selection. From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River), AN UNFINISHED FILM blurs the lines between reality and fiction to craft a creative and absorbing portrait of resilience and courage. In January 2020, director Xiaorui ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

Documented for the first time, audiences are afforded a rare behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of Dale Frank, Australia’s most eccentric and reclusive artist ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! Tim Burton's Oscar Winning biopic ED WOOD depicts the fantastical life of cult filmmaker, actor, and novelist, Edward Davis Wood Jr. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

From the producers behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies comes FLAT GRLS, Jirassaya Wongsutin’s beautiful and tender debut. Raised in ‘the flats’, a complex designated for the hundreds of families of police officers, Jane (Kirana Pipityakorn) a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

A subversive take on J.S. Le Fanu's gothic sensation novel, LIES WE TELL shrouds a chilling mystery inside of an Irish period thriller. Ireland, 1864. When her father suddenly dies, the 18-year-old Maud (Agnes O’Casey) inherits his grand and rem ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025

In 19th-century Massachusetts, the women of the March family – the loving matriarch, Marmee, and her four daughters, Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth – must fend for themselves ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 3 May 2025

RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The rise of and resulting PLANET OF THE APES is captured in dual classics 40+ years apart. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025

BJÖRK'S CORNUCOPIA is a documentary concert film by legendary Icelandic artist Björk, capturing her 2023 performance at Lisbon's Altice Arena during her four year-long Cornucopia tour. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, Luca Guadagnino directs Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a sensuous gothic-romance. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

ChalaMAY! A star-making performance by Timothee Chalamet, career-best support by Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg, sunny Italian settings and nostalgic ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

The legendary Mick “Crocodile” Dundee returns to the big screen in CROCODILE DUNDEE: THE ENCORE CUT, a newly restored cut of the Australian classic! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

Born in Paris in 1924 as the son of Armenian refugees, Charles Aznavour’s formative years are spent in poverty, but distinguished by his parents’ passion for music and theatre. Ridiculed for his short stature and raspy tenor voice - traits he would in tim ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

PREMIERE Q&A SCREENING: Friday May 9, 6.25pm. Join Australian underwater cinematographer Tom Park and other guests for a post-film Q&A. After seven decades filming every aspect of the natural world, David Attenborough delivers his greatest message of hop ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

80TH ANNIVERSARY! Alfred Hitchcok's six-time Oscar nominated psychological thriller features the timeless and captivating Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025

Producer Mark Pritchard, songwriter Thom Yorke, and visual artist Jonathan Zawada present TALL TALES – a debut collaborative visual and audio experience a decade in the making. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Stanley Kubrick directs two war classics that are among the legend’s best. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Featuring an array of outstanding performances led by Raúl Briones and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara, LA COCINA is a gripping, exhilarating and truly cinematic new film from acclaimed director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Amidst the lunchtime rush of The Gri ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Greta Gerwig’s impressive directorial debut stars Saoirse Ronan as the seventeen-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, desperate to escape the mundane surrounds of her small Californian town. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

NOVA FILM CLUB: Tuesday May 13, 6.45pm. Join your host, Koko, for an advance screening of Nic Cage-starrer THE SURFER. Then, treat yourself to drink specials and a hosted post-movie chat in the Nova Bar. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, THE SURFER ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway are captivating in Sydney Pollack's taut paranoia thriller THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025

Andrew Scott (All Of Us Strangers, Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 16 May 2025

In a world that has started to forget him, Hector, a widowed Greek fisherman, feels the weight of his solitude. ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 16 May 2025

Encore Screening: Friday May 16, 6.45pm. Director Michael Dillon will introduce the film. Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Africa, a snowy volcano nine thousand feet high, rears up from the sea like a great white whale. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! The original claustrophobic sci-fi horror hit followed by its thrilling prequel!

John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) follows a research ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

45TH ANNIVERSARY! Brian De Palma's luxurious erotic thriller DRESSED TO KILL is as stylish as it is nightmarish. When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a sex worker, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), she finds herself ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Elijah Bynum directs Timothée Chalamet and Maika Monroe in a coming-of-age crime thriller about a sheltered teen who discovers a way to get rich quick during a wild summer in Cape Cod ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Matthew Rankin’s absurdist triptych UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE was the winner of major awards at Cannes, Toronto, and Melbourne Film Festivals. In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interwea ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Battling entrenched tradition, the duo dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Denis Villeneuve's (Dune, Prisoners) second English-language feature ENEMY is a tense doppelganger thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain), Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds), and Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Conclave) ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Causing a sensation upon its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, HEREDITARY has already been called one of the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Adapted from the series of animated short films, Dean Fleischer-Camp's MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON features the voices of Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini in a critically acclaimed, profound and heartwarming tale. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Harmony Korine writes and directs visceral and stylish coming-of-age comic thriller SPRING BREAKERS. Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine star as four college students who travel to Florida for Spring Break, only to fall in with ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Adam Sandler gives the performance of his career in Benny & Josh Safdie's UNCUT GEMS, an anxiety inducing thriller about a jeweller who gambles with his life. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Francis Ford Coppola's iconic Vietnam war epic returns to the cinema screen, revisited by the director to create ... more

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: Thursday, 29 May 2025

See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, filmed live for cinemas from London’s ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 May 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: 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: 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

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 ELLIS PARK. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instru ... 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: Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE is a delightful French romantic comedy full of wit ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 20 Jun 2025

Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One ... 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! The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the ... 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

Davaa and Zaya are a young nomadic couple in the vast Bayanhongor region of Mongolia who are in the throes of animal birthing season when a seismic event suddenly changes their lives ... 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! Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they ... 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: Thursday, 17 Jul 2025

35TH ANNIVERSARY! In the 1990 science fiction film TOTAL RECALL, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks virtual vacation memories of Mars. ... 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

30TH ANNIVERSARY! This exceedingly handsome Jane Austen adaptation was scripted by actor Emma Thompson and was the first feature directed ... 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: 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

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: 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, 7 Oct 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... 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: 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, 8 May 2025

When filmmaker Areeb was four, she travelled to Gaza and saw the sea for the first time. That moment—the magic ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 May 2025

THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US is a compelling story of two sisters fighting to claim their inheritance amidst patriarchal ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 9 May 2025

TO A LAND UNKNOWN, directed by Mahdi Fleifel, is a powerful exploration of the emotional and social challenges faced by ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Re-visit the Australian classic fully restored followed by unseen BTS footage and the making of the iconic film. The ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

GARZEN TALES, directed by Mahmoud Nabil Ahmed, is a deeply moving documentary that offers an intimate portrayal of the everyday ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

In Bethlehem, Sami meets his uncle Kamal, who runs a souvenir shop. With Kamal and his reporter daughter Miriam, they ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

THE TEACHER is a powerful political drama that explores the deep emotional and moral complexities of resistance, loss, and survival ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 11 May 2025

In the summer of 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Beirut, the Israeli army raided the Palestinian Research Centre, looting its ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 11 May 2025

In November 2023, Gaza-born Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi (Passing Dreams [PFF’25], Falastine Stereo, Leila’s Birthday) founded the Masharawi Fund to ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic El Topo ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

An unnerving and hypnotic psychological mystery, Ryan J. Sloan’s debut GAZER premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

A deeply allegorical exploration of the human condition, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN is a rich, surreal, and symbolic work directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Jodorowsky. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix in addition to Best Actress and Best Actor for its two leads, Michale Haneke’s psychological drama has become a staple of his filmography, and a film that still dominates discussion today. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

In Britain’s post-punk Thatcher years, the infamous and legendary Scala cinema showed a diverse range of films, from high art to cult classics, sexploitation, horror, Kung-Fu and LGBTQIA+ ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Packed with exuberant sets, stunning shots, a stirring soundtrack, Wisit Sasanatieng's Thai 'western' TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival, premiering in 2001. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025

Praised upon release, George Sluizer's psychological thriller THE VANISHING descends into the mind of a serial killer, culminating in a conclusion that critics call "one of the scariest endings of all time". ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025

Based on the 1958 science fiction classic, director Chuck Russell and screenwriter Frank Darabont reimagine the tale of a squishy ... 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