Closed Caption & Audio Described Sessions
A variety of film session times providing AUDIO DESCRIPTION (AD) through custom headphones and CLOSED CAPTIONS (CC) through subtitles (projected onto purpose-made glasses and companion battery pack) play at Cinema Nova. These are available through the link below and tickets can be purchased to these sessions online or at the box office. These are regular sessions however they screen in auditoriums equipped to use the AD and CC technology.
We request that users of the AD and CC facilities allow for 10 minutes prior to the start of the session to acquaint themselves with the technology. Once a ticket has been purchased please proceed to the CANDY BAR and indicate to a staff member you wish to use the AD or CC facilities. A brief personal tutorial will be given by a staff member to the user. Written instructions are also available.
Due to the expense of this technology the user will be required to leave a valid credit card as a deposit with the staff member. Upon the return of the items the credit card will be returned. In the unlikely event the item has been damaged by the user Cinema Nova reserves the right to charge the user for any required repairs.
CC & AD sessions
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new story ... more
Academy Award nominated director of Past Lives, Celine Song, once again draws from her own past with this tale of a N ... more
BUSH HERITAGE Q&A screening Thursday October 2, 6.45pm. Bush Heritage presents a post-screening discussion of the ecological themes of nature and sustainability. ... more
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, ... more
The debut feature from Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, TOGETHER is a squishy, fleshy horror of co-dependency starring real life couple Alison Brie (Promising Young Woman) and Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist). ... more
Starring Dakota Johnson (Materialists), Adria Arjona (Hit Man, Blink Twice), and co-writers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, SPLITSVILLE had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. ... more
A reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, THE ROSES is a black comedy about the bitterness of divorce, scripted by Australian Tony McNamara (The Favourite, Poor Things) and starring a stellar ensemble cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Oli ... more
Oscar winner Riz Ahmed (The Sound of Metal, Nightcrawler) and Lily James (The Iron Claw, Baby Driver) lead David McKenzie's (Hell or High Water) RELAY, a tense thriller inspired by conspiracy films of the 70s. ... more
The cinematic return of the global phenomenon, DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE follows the Crawley family and their staff as ... more
NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) play an estranged son and grieving widow in this haunted gothic thriller set amongst the gorgeous backdrop of Aotearoa's South Island. When his estranged mother Elizabet ... more
