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

Friday, 22nd May

An isolated couple lose control of a joke about imaginary friends. This darkly funny thriller follows Anna (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) and Jack (Nicholas Denton), a young couple who have recently moved to the country. With the reality of their new situation fai ... more

Friday, 22nd May

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Directed by master anime filmmaker Momoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), ANGEL'S EGG is a rediscovered gem of the Japanese animation genre. ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Evicted and jobless, 30-something Cory (Travis Jeffery) and his heavily pregnant wife Jasmine (Maria Angelico) are forced to move in with the former’s parents at his childhood home. As the young couple’s stay extends, Cory’s parents become worried that th ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Led by a radiant Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), CALLE MÁLAGA is the latest film from Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan). ... more

Friday, 22nd May

After almost twenty years, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci return for THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2. ... more

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

Friday, 22nd May

Mark Sowerby’s life was upended in 2018 when a highly publicised short-selling attack on Blue Sky dismantled his reputation, identity, and self-belief. Turning to the ocean not for glory but for survival. Mark utilises marathon swimming ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson lead Kristoffer Borgli’s (Sick of Myself, Dream Scenario) razor sharp black comedy about a soon-to-be husband and wife. ... more

Featuring long-lost footage from Elvis Presely's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s, Baz Luhrmann’s (Elvis) EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is a concert film like no other. Weaving together moments from Presley’s Vegas residency with rare 16mm foo ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Based on the hit phenomenon game, EXIT 8 is psychological horror from Genki Kawamura (producer of Monster, Your Name., Weathering with You). When a man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself lost in an endless maze of subway tunnels, he quickly realises that ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is an exploration of complicated family ties from director Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Patterson). ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Oscar-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Green Border) returns with FRANZ: Becoming Kafka, a chronicling of one of literature’s most studied authors, told through the same audacious surrealism present in his works. ... more

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday May 24, 3:30pm Join us for a special Q&A screening of the Australian drama FROM ALL SIDES with writer/director Bina Bhattacharya. Bina Bhattacharya’s family drama FROM ALL SIDES explores the search for identity, culture, and ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Friday, 22nd May

Oscar winner: Best Lead Actress! Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao’s (Nomadland) HAMNET is a powerful love story led by Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) and Paul Mescal (The History of Sound), detailing the creation of one of the most timeless masterpiec ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Adam Scott leads Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM, a terrifying horror set in the remote Irish countryside. When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) looks to scatter his parents’ ashes at the inn where they had their honeymoon, the staff’s tales of an ancient w ... more

Led by a brilliant performance from Robert Aramayo (Nocturnal Animals), I SWEAR chronicles the true story of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson. ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Friday, 22nd May

From Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg comes IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY, a touching look at a life and legacy of a life cut tragically short. When young star Jeff Buckley released his first album ‘Grace’, he’d taken the world by storm. After ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Friday, 22nd May

Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA Twigs, and Kaia Gerber star in MOTHER MARY, a thriller about music, fashion, and estranged friends from David Lowery (The Green Knight). ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Oscar winner: Best Documentary Feature! As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and ... more

Friday, 22nd May

The band’s getting back together! Matt Johnson (Blackberry) and Jay McCarrol stars as fictionalised versions of themselves in time-travel mockumentary NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Friday, 22nd May

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 go in the running to win a music and movies themed prize pack (valued at over $5000). Also enjoy a choice of a Guinness or sparkling wine on arrival. From writ ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Captivatingly led by Jodie Foster, A PRIVATE LIFE is a French mystery co-starring Daniel Auteuil (Caché), Virginie Efira (Benedetta), and Mathieu Amalric (The Phoenician Scheme). ... more

Friday, 22nd May

A sci-fi adventure epic from Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Lego Movie, 22 Jump Street), PROJECT HAIL MARY stars Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller. ... more

Friday, 22nd May

Isabelle Huppert stars as a fictionalised version of billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt in THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. ... more

4 Academy Awards nominations incl: Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role, International Feature, and Casting! Winner of Best Actor, Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at Cannes 2025, THE SECRET AGENT is a rousing and tense polit ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize-winning SIRĀT is a true one-of-a-kind experience, set amongst an intense backdrop of military oppression and desert raves. Luis (Sergi López – Pan’s Labyrinth) is travelling through Southern Morocco with his son Esteban (n ... more

Friday, 22nd May

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

Friday, 22nd May

Shot in sensuous black-and-white, THE STRANGER is an adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella from prolific French filmmaker François Ozon (In the House, 8 Femmes). Summer, 1938. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), a quiet and unassuming clerk in his early ... more

Friday, 22nd May

From acclaimed Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah) comes WOLFRAM, a spiritual follow-up to his revered 2017 feature Sweet Country. Set amongst the colonial frontier of 1930s Australia, two swaggering outlaws roll into a mining town a ... more

Friday, 22nd May

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! 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 ad ... more

Friday, 22nd May
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