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I Love Boosters

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday November 6, 7:00pm. A truly singular odyssey through the world of high-fashion, I LOVE BOOSTERS is a heist adventure from Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You), starring Keke Palmer, Taylour Paige, Naomi Ackie, and Demi Moore. ... more

Yellow Letters

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2026

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, YELLOW LETTERS is an exploration of censorship and political persecution by İlker Çatak (The Teachers’ Lounge). After the premiere of their new play, professional and romantic partners ... more

Grey Gardens and Sans Soleil

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Twentieth century documentaries that broke the mould and pushed the genre into new spaces.

GREY GARDENS is a documentary ... more

Bad Apples

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

A thrilling comedy led by Saoirse Ronan (Little Women), BAD APPLES is a darkly satirical look at the education system and plight of teachers. Struggling to wrangle a particularly disruptive student in her class, primary school teacher Maria (Ronan) finds ... more

Blue Heron

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

Sophy Romvari’s debut feature BLUE HERON is a gentle, touching, and semi-autobiographical coming-of-age about a family in turmoil, and the feelings that linger long after growing up. ... more

Chopin

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

A vividly energetic and playful portrait of the revered composer, CHOPIN is the story of France’s most known romantic pianist. Paris, 1835. Renowned composer Frédéric Chopin (Eryk Kulm) navigates high society, performing concerts, and teaching for income ... more

Erupcja

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

NOVA EXCLSUIVE! Charli xcx leads ERUPCJA, an intimate, bittersweet portrait of connection, identity, and Warsaw. When Bethany (Charli) travels to Warsaw, Poland with her boyfriend Rob (Will Madden), he belie ... more

Golden Boy: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday November 15, 1:00pm. Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic. ... more

Pan's Labyrinth

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

20TH ANNIVERSARY! In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an undergr ... more

Eyes Wide Shut

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2026

MOVIE EPIC! Stanley Kubrick directs Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in his final film. ... more

Fox, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Wednesday November 18, 6.30pm Join director Dario Russo, star Emily Browning, and moderator Michael Cusack (creator of Smiling Friends) for a very special in-cinema post-screening Q&A. Drawing on Japanese and Korean folktales, Dario ... more

GIANT – The Play

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

A world-famous children's author under threat, a battle of wills in the wake of scandal, and one chance to make amends, GIANT tells the story of Roald Dahl (John Lithgow) and the true controversy that challenged his legacy. It's the summer of 1 ... more

Grey Gardens

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

RESTORATION! A film as endearing as it is enduring, GREY GARDENS is an iconic and eclectic testament to originality and individualism. In an old decaying mansion in East Hampton reside the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy; a mother and her middle-age ... more

Incomer, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

Set amongst the rolling hills of a remote Scottish isle, THE INCOMER is a charming Sundance-awarded comedy about love, self-acceptance, and the importance of human connection. Living their lives in solitude on an otherwise uninhabited island, siblings Is ... more

Only Living Pickpocket in New York, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Nov 2026

A send-up of the character-driven crime films of the 70s and 80s, THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK is a charmingly woven story of love and theft powered by a career-best John Turturro. Harry Lehman (Turturro) is an aging pickpocket who plies his tr ... more

Touch of Evil and Double Indemnity

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Dec 2026

Revenge thriller masterpieces from Welles and Wilder TOUCH OF EVIL is a political neo-noir from Orson Welles. When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins h ... more

Behemoth!

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2026

A gifted cellist, Alex Serian (Pedro Pascal), returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which ... more

Boss Cat

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2026

After her mother dies, a woman with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) must campaign against the plans of her estranged grandmother ... more

Ghost World

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2026

25TH ANNIVERSARY! With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in ... more

Look Back

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2026

Palme d’Or-winning director Koreeda Hirokazu (Shoplifters) brings his signature humanism to LOOK BACK, a deeply moving adaptation about the wild emotional swings of childhood friendship, and the process of finding your voice through art. ... more

Ray Gunn

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2026

Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, The Iron Giant) brings you a whole new world to investigate in RAY GUNN. In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn (Sam Rockwell) is drawn ... more

Heated Rivalry

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Dec 2026

ALMOST SOLD OUT: Saturday December 5, 1.00pm & 6.40pm, Sunday December 6, 1.00pm The rivalry is coming to the big screen! Experience the global sensation HEATED RIVALRY like never before with a special Season 1 cinema marathon! Relive every episode of th ... more

Howl's Moving Castle + Laputa Castle in the Sky

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki present fantastical animated tales of far-away lands. ... more

Big Girls Don't Cry

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Dec 2026

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! A 2006 period-piece about self-discovery, BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY is a kiwi coming-of-age executive produced by Jane Campion. Over one transformative summer, 14-year-old Sid (Ani Palmer) sets out to reinvent herself. Engaging with the pastime ... more

Yesterday Island

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Dec 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER ADVANCE SCREENING: Tuesday December 1, 7:10pm. Join writer/director Sam Voutas and star Ivan Aristeguieta for an extended introduction before an Advance Screening of the Aussie comedy YESTERDAY ISLAND. A midnight phone call from a frien ... more

A Better Tomorrow

Opening Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 2026

40TH ANNIVERSARY! Sung Tse-Ho is trying to cut all ties with a triad organization and reconnect with his policeman brother. ... more

He Died With A Felafel In His Hand

Opening Date: Sunday, 13 Dec 2026

KOKO RECS Q&A SCREENING: Sunday December 13, 3:40pm. Join us for the 25th anniversary Melbourne premiere of the restored film, followed by a Q&A with director Richard Lowenstein (Mystify: Michael , Dogs In Space) and star Damien Walshe-Howling (un ... more

Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 2026

DOUBLE BILL: It's a hair-burning, ice-slipping, glass-decoration-crushing, iron-to-the-face double feature as Macauley Culkin stars as Kevin McAllister, the innocent young ... more

Dune: Part Three

Opening Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 2026

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes DUNE: PART THREE, bringing Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s epic trilogy to ... more

It's a Wonderful Life

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Dec 2026

80TH ANNIVERSARY! Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge ... more

Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 2026

DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more

A Talent for Murder

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 2026

Q&A ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday December 6, 2:00pm. Join A TALENT FOR MURDER playwright and screenwriter Joanna Murray-Smith for a post-film Q&A following an Advance Screening of the film. Helen Miren, Alden Ehrenreich, and Olivia Cooke star is A TA ... more

Debut, The

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 2026

When Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore) is cast in a bit part at a small community theatre, she transforms from a ... more

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 2026

NOVA EXCLSUIVE! A gorgeously staged piece of magical realism, HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! is a beautiful look at the life, and heart, of a ballroom dancer. Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and her husband Luis (Alejandro Edda) love competing in Tokyo's ballroom dance ... more

Minotaur

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 2026

From master director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless), the powerful new drama MINOTAUR traces the emotional and moral collapse of a Russian businessman under the strain of personal and political upheaval. ... more

Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical Cut)

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2026

Ingmar Bergman's 4-time Oscar winning masterpiece As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve) enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however ... more

I Play Rocky

Opening Date: Friday, 1 Jan 2027

A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a big movie studio ... more

Ink

Opening Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 2027

An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of ... more

Club Kid

Opening Date: Thursday, 14 Jan 2027

A washed-up New York party promoter is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives. ... more

Fjord

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 2027

Cristian Mungiu’s (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) Palme d’Or winning legal drama FJORD stars a career-best Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as parents that face mounting scrutiny from their community. Mihai (Stan) and Lisbet Gheorghiu (Reinsve), a Romani ... more

Hay Fever: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 2027

Directed by Emily Burns and filmed live at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End, this hilarious new production starring Christina Baranski and Richard E. Grant brings the eccentric Bliss family to the big screen. ... more

Paper Tiger

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 2027

A crime-triller from Venice Silver Lion-winner James Gray (The Immigrant, Armageddon Time), PAPER TIGER stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johanson, and Miles Teller. In 1986 New York, devil-may-care former cop Gary Pearl (Driver) pitches a lucrative constructi ... more

Renoir & Love: Exhibition on Screen

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 2027

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the world’s favourite artists; a founding member of the Impressionist movement and a constantly evolving ... more

Mr. Irrelevant

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Feb 2027

Mr. Irrelevant is the inspiring true story of John Tuggle (David Corenswet), the last player selected in the last round ... more

The Motive and the Cue: NT Live

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Feb 2027

Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917) returns to the stage, directing Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play - THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Eli ... more

De Gaulle: Liberté

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Apr 2027

After more than five years in the making, Antonin Baudry’s deftly drawn geopolitical thriller DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ is the second part of a duology about the statesman and former President of France. Charles De Gaulle's (Simon Abkarian) journey as a French ... more

Monet: Exhibition on Screen

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 May 2027

To celebrate Tate Britain’s blockbuster Monet and Time exhibition, Exhibition on Screen is delighted to bring the iconic story of ... more

POLFF26 The Doll

Opening Date: Friday, 27 Nov 2026

Opening Night Event: Friday November 27, 7.00pm A spectacular new adaptation of one of Poland’s greatest literary masterpieces, THE DOLL brings Bolesław Prus’s sweeping story of love, ambition, money and social class to the big screen with an extraordinar ... more

POLFF26 No Ghosts on Good Street

Opening Date: Saturday, 28 Nov 2026

Winner of five awards at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress, the darkly funny and tender debut NO GHOSTS ON GOOD STREET follows four siblings discovering that growing up can change everything — includin ... more

POLFF26 Winter of the Crow

Opening Date: Saturday, 28 Nov 2026

Inspired by a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk, WINTER OF THE CROW, starring Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, The Crown), is a tense political thriller set in December 1981, on the eve of ... more

POLFF26 Ashes and Diamonds

Opening Date: Sunday, 29 Nov 2026

A landmark of post-war European cinema and a defining work of the Polish Film School, ASHES AND DIAMONS has been repeatedly named among the favourite films of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Visually striking and emotionally charged, it features ... more

POLFF26 The Altar Boys

Opening Date: Sunday, 29 Nov 2026

From the producers of the Oscar-nominated ‘Corpus Christi’ and a standout at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, where the film won eight awards, including the Golden Lions for Best Film and the Audience Award, THE ALTAR BOYS is a rebellious coming-of-age ... more

POLFF26 The Love Buzz

Opening Date: Friday, 4 Dec 2026

Can a change of scenery change your life? THE LOVE BUZZ is a warm-hearted comedy celebrating friendship, second chances and the liberating discovery that happiness rarely arrives according to plan. ... more

POLFF26 Lachtara. Longing

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Dec 2026

Told with humour, raw tenderness and understated emotional power, LACHTARA. LONGING is a poignant road movie about finding your way home, both geographically and emotionally. ... more

POLFF26 The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Dec 2026

She lived as boldly as she painted. Born into a wealthy Polish family, Tamara De Lempicka conquered Paris, made her mark in Hollywood and became an icon of modern art. Today, her distinctive Art Deco paintings are coveted by collectors including Madonna, ... more

POLFF26 Brother

Opening Date: Sunday, 6 Dec 2026

Winner of the Audience Award at the Trieste Film Festival and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Warsaw Film Festival, BROTHER is a raw and compelling portrait of brotherhood, resilience and the price of growing up in a fractured world. ... more

POLFF26 Picasso's Mermaid

Opening Date: Sunday, 6 Dec 2026

Inspired by a true story and fresh from the Main Competition at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, PICASSO’S MERMAID is a charming journey into the past, where the discovery of a drawing by Pablo Picasso brings together a young woman, her eccentric elder ... more

Samson et Dalila: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 6 Feb 2027

Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production. Featuring a massive orchest ... more

La Fanciulla del West: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 13 Mar 2027

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Me ... more

Silent Night: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 24 Apr 2027

Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the Fir ... more

Manon: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 May 2027

Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold… Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times)—superstar soprano Nadine Sierra ... more

Otello: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Jun 2027

One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide. Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy also features soprano Ailyn Pérez in her compan ... more

Parsifal: Met Opera

Opening Date: Saturday, 31 Jul 2027

A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns in François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striki ... more

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