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Ghostlight
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
Kelly O’Sullivan (writer – Saint Frances) and Alex Thompson (director – Saint Frances) co-direct a compelling tale of grief. When melancholic construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers communi ... more
Greedy People
Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Oct 2024
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) lead a Coen-esque crime-comedy caper. When a small-town cop (Gordon-Levitt) and his rookie partner (Patel) discover a dead body and a million dollars next to the body, they try to sol ... more
Thing, The + Videodrome
Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Oct 2024
DOUBLE BILL! Head back to the early 80s for a double feature highlighting two of the greatest genre filmmakers of ... more
Assassin's Plan
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
Hollywood royalty Michael Keaton directs and stars in a heart-racing thriller. When a contract killer is diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, he is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son ... more
Cat Video Fest 2024
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, ... more
From Hilde With Love
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
Celebrated German filmmaker Andreas Dresen (Cloud 9) directs a stirring biographical drama that was nominated for the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. In the summer of Berlin 1942, Hilde falls madly in love with Hans and b ... more
Hidden Fortress, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
AKIRA KUROSAWA RESTORED CLASSICS! A grand-scale adventure, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with ... more
High and Low
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
AKIRA KUROSAWA RESTORED CLASSICS! Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of ... more
Interstellar
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
10TH ANNIVERSARY! 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
Memoir of a Snail
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
From Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max), MEMOIR OF A SNAIL is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday l ... more
Throne of Blood
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
AKIRA KUROSAWA RESTORED CLASSICS! A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, THRONE OF BLOOD, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale ... more
Scream (1996) + Scream (2022)
Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Oct 2024
DOUBLE BILL! The horror hit that reignited a genre plus the acclaimed homage that reignited the franchise.
Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney ... more
Different Man, A
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024
NOVA FILM CLUB: Wednesday October 16, 6.45pm. Join your host, Koko, for an advance screening of the darkly comedic A DIFFERENT MAN. Then, treat yourself to drink specials and a hosted post-movie chat in the Nova Bar. Sebastian Stan is transformed in an A2 ... more
Lee
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024
MATINEE FILM CLUB: Thursday October 17, 10.30am. Join your host, film critic Jan Epstein, for an advance screening of LEE with complimentary morning tea and post-movie chat. Kate Winslet portrays Vogue model-turned-war correspondent Lee Miller in award-w ... more
Eyes Without A Face
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
HALLOWEEK SCREENINGS! Deranged Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) attempts to replace the disfigured visage of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) with ... more
Lake Mungo
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
HALLOWEEK SCREENINGS! One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – a mockumentary that is equal parts ghost story and family drama ... more
Left Write Hook
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Tuesday October 29, 6.15pm. Join filmmakers Donna Lyon and Shannon Owen for a post-film Q&A. For eight survivors of childhood sexual abuse, a groundbreaking program turns into a journey of recovery, transformation and friendship in th ... more
Saving Private Ryan
Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024
MOVIE EPIC! Steven Spielberg directs an all-star cast led by Tom Hanks in the wartime drama that changed cinema forever.
Following ... more
Moogai, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
HALLOWEEN OPENING NIGHT: Thursday October 31, 7.20pm. This Halloween, get a frightening look at the Australian horror from the producers of The Babadook and Talk To Me – THE MOOGAI. Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires) gives a career-best performance in Jon Bel ... more
Mozart's Sister
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
MEET THE FILMMAKER Q&A: Sunday October 27, 2pm. Hear from director Madelaine Hetherton-Miau after a screening of her insightful documentary MOZART’S SISTER. From multi-awarded Director/Producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau and Producer Rebecca Barry, Mozart’s ... more
Paris, Texas
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
40TH ANNIVERSARY! Out of nowhere, a gaunt man in a dark suit and a red baseball cap appears in the burning heat of the desert between the US and Mexico. Travis. He drinks the last sip from his water bottle, then he moves on, doggedly, into the inhospitabl ... more
Saturday Night
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
ADVANCE SCREENING: Saturday October 26, 7pm. Experience the chaotic evening that changed American television forever at our advance screening of SATURDAY NIGHT. At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed tel ... more
Shaun of the Dead (20 Bloody Years)
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
20th ANNIVERSARY! From Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) comes the funniest zombie comedy of all time. When flesh-eating zombies ... more
There's Still Tomorrow
Opening Date: Thursday, 31 Oct 2024
Paola Cortellesi directs, writes, and stars in this comedy-drama that beat Barbie and Oppenheimer at the Italian Box Office. In Rome, during the second half of the 1940s, Delia (Cortellesi) plays exclusively the roles of wife and mother while her husba ... more
Hundreds of Beavers
Opening Date: Friday, 1 Nov 2024
A triumph of imagination, Mike Cheslik's joyously silly HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS has been acclaimed by critics and audiences around the ... more
Great White Whale, The
Opening Date: Sunday, 3 Nov 2024
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday November 3, 4.30pm. Join filmmaker Michael Dillon for a post-film Q&A. 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 Whit ... more
Memories of Murder + Parasite
Opening Date: Tuesday, 5 Nov 2024
DOUBLE FEATURE! Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s two biggest films back-to-back.
MEMORIES OF MURDER follows two detectives in a small Korean ... more
Rumours
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2024
Starring Cate Blanchett and a terrific ensemble cast, Guy Maddin’s latest is an entertainingly biting political satire. At their annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods at night while attemp ... more
Sasquatch Sunset
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2024
Riley Keough (Zola) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) star as Sasquatches in a meditative and humorous glimpse into the lives of the mythical American creatures. In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches ... more
Queens of Concrete
Opening Date: Friday, 8 Nov 2024
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday November 10, 6.45pm. Join director Eliza Cox, producers Gena Lida Riess and CJ Welsh and cast members Hayley and Charlotte for a post-film Q&A. Shot over eight years, QUEENS OF CONCRETE chronicles the journey from childhood t ... more
Casablanca + Maltese Falcon, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 12 Nov 2024
DOUBLE BILL! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON.
A ... more
Aquarius
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Nov 2024
Wendy Champagne directs a fascinating documentary set in 1970s New South Wales. In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small dairy farm for 10 days of social and cultural exploration that ... more
People's Joker, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Nov 2024
Vera Drew directs, writes, and stars in a dark comedy of an aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader. In an autobiographically inspired story, a painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Drew as Joker the Harlequin) ... more
Oldboy + Talk To Me
Opening Date: Tuesday, 19 Nov 2024
DOUBLE BILL! A 'back from the dead' double feature!
Park Chan-wook directs Choi Min-sik in the action mystery that kicked-off the ... more
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Nov 2024
20TH ANNIVERSARY! Winner of the Academy Award for Original Screenplay, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry's comic romance stars ... more
Green Border
Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2024
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from ... more
Heretic
Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2024
Hugh Grant stars in a spine-chilling psychological horror directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Grant), becoming ensnared ... more
Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical
Opening Date: Friday, 29 Nov 2024
Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty, Ridley) and Broadway royalty Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, The Cher Show) lead a ... more
Howl's Moving Castle + Spirited Away
Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Dec 2024
DOUBLE BILL! Two classic animated fantasies directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body ... more
Cars That Ate Paris, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024
50TH ANNIVERSARY! Peter Weir’s directorial debut and a classic of the Australian New Wave is beautifully restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. The residents of a small Australian town, Paris, survive by causing traffic accidents, ... more
Ghost Cat Anzu
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024
A young girl befriends a cheery ghost cat in a gorgeous Japanese animation. 11-year-old Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in a small Japanese town, where her grandfather - a monk - resides. ... more
My Favourite Cake
Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024
Iranian filmmaking duo Maryam Moghadam & Behtash Sanaeeha return with a sweet comedy-drama that was a dual award-winner at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Seventy-year-old Mahin has lived alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her dau ... more
Mean Girls + Clueless
Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024
DOUBLE BILL! Go back to school with two comedies that defined their respective generations.
Written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay ... more
Cats of Gokogu Shrine, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024
Gokogu is a small, ancient Shinto shrine in Ushimado, Japan. Home to dozens of street cats, it is also known as Cat Shrine. While Gokogu looks peaceful on the surface, it is also the epicentre of a sensitive issue that divides the local community, as som ... more
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Don't Look Now + Wicker Man, The
Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Dec 2024
DOUBLE BILL! A sophisticated British pairing, can you guess the dark forces that inhabit these classic horror movies?
A married couple ... more
Die Hard + Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Dec 2024
DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more
Real Pain, A
Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2024
Jessie Eisenberg (The Social Network) directs, writes, and stars in a comedy-drama roadtrip co-starring Succession’s Kieran Culkin. ... more
Emilia Pérez
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) directs Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón in a musical thriller ... more
Magic Beach
Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
MAGIC BEACH, based on Alison Lester's book, features nine children and a dog bringing their imaginative imaginations to life. ... more
Seed of a Sacred Fig, The
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil) directs a powerful political drama spotlighting the ongoing political unrest in Tehran. Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller centres on a family thrust int ... more
We Live in Time
Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in a decades-spanning romantic drama from director John Crawley (Brooklyn). Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life t ... more
All We Imagine as Light
Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025
The first Indian film to screen in competition at Cannes in 30 years is a melancholic musing of two nurses set against the colourful and charismatic backdrop of modern-day Mumbai. ... more
An Unfinished Film
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025
Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January ... more
Met Opera: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Opening Date: Saturday, 19 Oct 2024
Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the 2024-25 season, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented ... more
Met Opera: Grounded
Opening Date: Saturday, 9 Nov 2024
Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by ... more
Met Opera: Tosca
Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 2024
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De ... more
Met Opera: Aida
Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Feb 2025
American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s ... more
Met Opera: Fidelio
Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025
Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, ... more
Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
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
Met Opera: Salome
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
Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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
IFF Conclave
Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Oct 2024
CLOSING NIGHT (FILM ONLY): Thursday October 17, 6.45pm + 7.00pm (sold out). Be among the first to see the psychological thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci , and Isabella Rossellini and say "arrivederci" to this year's ST ALi Italian Film Fes ... more
IRFF: That They May Face the Rising Sun
Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Oct 2024
An adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned ... more
IRFF: All You Need is Death
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
Anna and Aleks are song collectors–tracking down and recording obscure Irish folksongs to sell them to a network of rich ... more
IRFF: Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
To some it was an unassuming pub on a side street in Dublin’s city centre. To musicians, dancers, singers and ... more
IRFF: Dance First
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering ... more
IRFF: The Guards
Opening Date: Friday, 25 Oct 2024
In this groundbreaking episode, the harrowing realities of domestic violence and coercive control are unveiled through the eyes of the ... more
IRFF: A Greyhound of a Girl
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny ... more
IRFF: Stolen
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
STOLEN reveals how women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ were treated in an Ireland that ... more
IRFF: Verdigris
Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Oct 2024
A powerful story about Marian and Jewel, two very different women who form an unlikely bond. Shabby and unfulfilled, middle-aged ... more
IRFF: Lie of the Land
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with ... more
IRFF: Ó Bhéal
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Ó Bhéal is a cinematic exploration of the rise of Hip Hop and Electronic artists in Ireland embracing oral traditions of ... more
IRFF: Sunlight
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Former addict Leon loves his best friend Iver more than anything else in the world. Iver’s the reason he’s clean ... more
IRFF: Tarrac
Opening Date: Sunday, 27 Oct 2024
Aoife Ní Bhraoin returns home to help her father, Breandán ‘The Bear’ Ó Braoin, recover from a heart attack. Day ... more
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2024
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunders ... more
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. ... more
NT Live: The Importance of Bring Earnest
Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025
Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of ... more
Michelangelo: Love and Death
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
