Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025

Weaving together personal anecdotes, a rich television archive, tales from international comedy greats and riches from more than 200 boxes of Clarke’s work and letters, BUT ALSO JOHN CLARKE is a personal insight into a legend of the antipodean screen, and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025

Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another one of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Sep 2025

50TH ANNIVERSARY! One of the most controversial films of all time returns to the screen to shock a whole new ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 5 Sep 2025

Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM first screened at Cinema Nova in February 2010, where it has since become a cult-favourite, expanded into other Australian states, been introduced by co-star and bestselling author Greg Sestero on countless occasions, and adapted i ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 9 Sep 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Makoto Shinkai (Suzume) directs a pair of gorgeous animated romantic fantasies. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Sep 2025

65TH ANNIVERSARY! Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray star in Billy Wilder's acclaimed comedy of Manhattan insurance clerk C.C. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Sep 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday September 10, 6.45pm. 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

Opening Date: Sunday, 14 Sep 2025

After the Second World War, the Australian government decided to accept immigrants from countries other than the British Isles. This ... 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: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

Anne Fontaine’s (The Innocents) BOLÉRO is a powerful story about the creation of an orchestral masterpiece; one that would come to define music within ballet. Starring an incredibly committed Raphaël Personnaz (Anna Karina) and Jeanne Balibar (Cold War), ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

RESTORATION! In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based o ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 19 Sep 2025

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

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

60TH ANNIVERSARY! The hills are alive with the sound of music, and so too are the flats of Carlton – for one night at least! Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in career-defining roles and THAT first shot; you know the drill. A soon-to-be nun, Maria (A ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

One of the world’s greatest singers, Andrea Bocelli has a voice that transcends genres and generations.  

Documentarian Cosima Spender follows ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

EVENT SCREENING: Sunday September 21, 3:15pm. Pre-recorded introduction from filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon to play before feature. Physical media reigns supreme in KIM'S VIDEO, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City ... 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: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

30TH ANNIVERSARY! “As if!” snarks Cher with just the right amount of disdain and sardonic eye-roll in iconic film of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 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, 30 Sep 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Burt Lancaster leads Luchino Visconti’s 19th century Italian epic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA SCREENING: Tuesday September 30, 6.50pm (SOLD OUT) + 7.10pm (SOLD OUT). To celebrate twenty years of sparkling vampires and spider monkeys, we’ve partnered with Readings to present a double feature of (the best films in the franchise ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

15TH ANNIVERSARY! Continually prescient and timely, David Fincher’s masterpiece only grows in stature and reputation, cementing itself as one of the most important films of the century. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: Saturday October 4, 10.40am. These school holidays, join us to celebrate 85 years of this Walt Disney classic - and the long, rich history of Lygon Street’s Italian cultural heritage - with this Anniversary Screening of 1940’s anima ... 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: Wednesday, 15 Oct 2025

Cinema Nova is very excited to announce a special event screening of 1998’s cult classic PRACTICAL MAGIC with director Griffin Dunne in-cinema for a live introduction to the film, post-screening Q&A hosted by Brodie Lancaster, and book signing! Ticket ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Jonathan Lynn's (My Cousin Vinny) classic mosaic whodunnit is based on the titular board game, led by the iconoclastic Tim Curry. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 18 Oct 2025

A multidimensional journey into the heart of the Renaissance. The city that was once the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence and the Uffizi Gallery ensure a totally immersive and unique tour of the city that was artistic home of Michelangelo, Leonardo, R ... 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: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Oct 2025

After visiting a twin bereavement support group, Roman (O'Brien), who’s recently lost his twin brother Rocky (O’Brien), meets fellow survivor Dennis (Sweeney). As the pair develop an unlikely bromance, they both search for solace and an identity without t ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 24 Oct 2025

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025

MOVIE EPIC! Andrei Tarkovsky directs a landmark sci-fi adventure. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

David Gulpili (Walkabout, The Proposition, Charlie’s Country) was one of Australia’s greatest and most well-known actors, and the first Indigenous actor to make an international stamp. A Yolŋu man, Gulpili led a traditional lifestyle in the Arafura Swamp ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Oct 2025

Shining a light on the unsung heroes of the Italian migrant experience, SIGNORINELLA – LITTLE MISS is an entertaining, touching and uplifting look at a cultural force that changed Australia forever. Italian women take centre stage as they share personal s ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in a pair of Oscar winners. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday November 7, 7:10pm. Join director & co-producer Sophie Somerville, co-producer Carter Looker, and cast for a post-screening Q&A. Sophie Somerville’s honest and raw debut FWENDS is a Melbourne set festival darling, winning the B ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Hannah, a mother takes her trans non-binary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jimpa. But Frances’ desire ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Nov 2025

Following triumphant performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present two animated Japanese hits. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 15 Nov 2025

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder - shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography... Five years in production, this ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Back-to-back cult ‘70s horror hits! ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

WICKED: FOR GOOD is part 2 of John M. Chu's adaptation of the Broadway phenomenon, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and Bowen Yang. ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 22 Nov 2025

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco ... 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: Friday, 28 Nov 2025

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Al ... 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: Saturday, 13 Dec 2025

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary ... 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: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film MY BROTHER'S BAND follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music, starring a charming paring of Benjamin Lavernhe (Delicious) and Pierre Lottin (The Night of the 12th, When Fall ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) returns with SENTIMENTAL VALUE, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix and starring returning muse Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) alongside Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl) and Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown). Sist ... 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: Saturday, 17 Jan 2026

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Winner of Best Actor, Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize (Fipresci) at Cannes 2025, THE SECRET AGENT is a rousing and tense political thriller led by a captivating performance from Wagner Moura (Civil War). ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. The first new Met production of ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 28 Feb 2026

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely? Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power a ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Mar 2026

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 2026

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of ... more

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

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

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

Uncovers Geraldine Flower's collection of love letters, suggesting a potential double life as a spy. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds gives audiences a behind the scenes glimpse at Williams’ most ambitious ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Golden Globe-nominee Joel ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Nov 2025

The film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge a system during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937 ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

JAY KELLY, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George looney) and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Tells the story of Lorenz Hart's struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 19 Sep 2025

After the global success of 2016’s Perfect Strangers, writer/director Paolo Genovese has struck gold again with Somebody to Love, a ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

In 1949, the Italian city of Naples lies in ruins after the devastation of WWII. Amidst the poverty and rubble-strewn ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

A cultural phenomenon and box office sensation in Italy, this emotional drama set in a Rome high school explores the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

Starring popular comic duo Salvatore Ficarra & Valentino Picone (Strangeness IFF23) and festival favourite Toni Servillo (also in La Grazia ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 20 Sep 2025

Inspired by real events, The Negotiator is a dramatic spy thriller starring Claudio Santamaria and Sonia Bergamasco that delivers a ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Award-winning filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek returns with this Italian box office hit, a joyous and touching tribute to the costume designers ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Elio Germano delivers a standout performance as Enrico Berlinguer in this meticulous, intelligent biopic of a man for whom life ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Directed by Marco Tullio Giodana, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marco Bellochio and Gloria Malatesta, and inspired by the ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 21 Sep 2025

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, THE MOUNTAIN BRIDE – VERMIGLIO is an atmospheric, ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

In 1980s-1990s Italy, with his agency Diva Futura, Riccardo Schicchi revolutionises mass culture by turning the hippie utopia of free ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

Cleverly intertwining past and present, fiction and documentary, with this biopic director/co-writer Mimmo Calopresti tells the story of the growth ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

The directorial debut from actress Greta Scarano (The Perfect Dinner IFF22), fun dramedy Siblings is inspired by the true story ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

After the great success of the first two films in the series, 10 Days Without Mamma (IFF19) and When Mum ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 24 Sep 2025

This elegant and moving film from award-winning writer/director Mario Martone (Nostalgia, The King of Laughter) follows a decisive event in ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 24 Sep 2025

In this personal tale, filmmaker Francesca Comencini reflects on her bond with and pays homage to her father Luigi Comencini, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival is delighted to present Oscar-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s highly anticipated new drama La Grazia ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Directed by Ivano DeMatteo (Mia IFF24) this compelling drama about forgiveness and parental love that is loosely based on Ciro ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Narrated by Italian-Australian actress Greta Scacchi, this fascinating documentary written, directed and produced by the creators of LYGON ST - ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Sep 2025

From Fabio Grassadoni and Antonio Piazza (Sicilian Ghost Story), this fictionalised mafia story features standout performances from Elio Germano and ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Sep 2025

Jasmine (Marilena Amato) is a hairdresser in her 40s and appears to have everything she ever wanted: a devoted husband, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 27 Sep 2025

Adapted from Rosella Postorino’s bestselling novel At The Wolf’s Table, this gripping historical drama from multi award-winning writer/director Silvio Soldini ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

When Isabella Ducrot (née Antonia Mosca) began to devote herself to art at the age of 55, no one – ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

Starring Ludovica Martino (SKAM Italia) and Marco Leonardi (Cinema Paradiso) My Place Is Here is a compelling tale of a ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Oct 2025

Written and directed by Gianni Amelio (Lord of the Ants IFF22), loosely based on the 2018 novel The Challenge by ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 2 Oct 2025

In her debut feature, director and cowriter Sara Fgaier delivers a lyrical, sensitive and thoughtful drama about the power of ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 4 Oct 2025

While visiting a remote island to secure land for wealthy clients, Emily, a successful real estate consultant, becomes the next ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

CHARLIE (Jeanette Coppolino) and her companions initiate an inspiring quest, representing a hero's journey both physically and metaphorically, displaying unrelenting ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

In a small, declining Oregon town, excitement has been building for days. A Hollywood studio is holding a test screening ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Oct 2025

A writer befriends a retired serial killer in a desperate attempt to find inspiration for his next novel and save ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

In Deathstalker, the Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege by the Dreadites, heralds of the long-dead sorcerer Nekromemnon. When Deathstalker ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 10 Oct 2025

Once a smug former child star, Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter) is now the unfortunate face of a shady megacorporation pushing ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

The metalhead splatter insanity returns in the sequel to 2015’s comedy horror hit, DEATHGASM. After thwarting a demon apocalypse (which ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 11 Oct 2025

A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy spiraling into an out of control bender in which ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, all-star Australian classic coming-of-age drama Looking For Alibrandi is presented in a brand new ... more