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Jay Kelly

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

One week out from shooting his upcoming film, world famous actor Jay Kelly (Clooney), decides to shift gears and visit his family in Europe as he begins to reassess his career. Without a warning, he embarks on the trip, first stopping in Italy to accept a ... more

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

In 2024, acclaimed Iranian director Sepideh Farsi tried to enter Gaza to document the living conditions amidst Israel's war on Palestine. Unable to secure a passage to the city via Cairo, a Palestinian refugee in Cairo introduced Farsi to Fatma Hosanna, a ... more

Sisu: Road to Revenge

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2025

Returning to what was once his family home on the Soviet Finnish border in 1946, Aatami Korpi dismantles his now empty house and sets out to rebuild it somewhere safer in their honour. But when the Red Army learns of Aatami’s existence, they dispatch Igor ... more

Dersu Uzala

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

Edge of Life

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

The doorway to death is the last great frontier in human life. Intellectually, we all know our lives will end, and yet - in the Western world at least - we act as if death is a mirage, disappearing the closer we move towards it. Two doctors in Australia a ... more

Lurker

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday November 23, 6.15pm The debut feature of director Alex Russell, LURKER follows Los Angeles loner Matthew (Theodore Pellerin) as a chance encounter with recording artist Oliver (Archie Madekwe) catapults him into a seductive world ... more

Mistress Dispeller

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! With strikingly intimate access, MISTRESS DISPELLER explores the work of a ‘mistress dispeller’ – someone who is tasked with infiltrating and ending an affair. ... more

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday November 26, 6.40pm. Starring an ensemble cast including Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Josh Brolin (Weapons), Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and more, Danie ... more

Fifth Step, The: NT Live

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

Pointe: Dancing on a Knife's Edge

Opening Date: Sunday, 30 Nov 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday November 30, 3:30pm. Join filmmaker Dawn Jackson and featured dancer Floeur Alder for a post-screening Q&A. POINTE DANCING ON A KNIFE'S EDGE is a captivating and moving documentary about Australian dancer Floeur Alder, daughter ... more

Portrait of a Lady on Fire + Petite Maman

Opening Date: Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Céline Sciamma directs a pair of tender French dramas. ... more

Careless

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

A funny, heartfelt and fiercely political documentary about growing old in Australia, and what happens when aged care is handed ... more

Eternity

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with ... more

Nuremberg

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

ADVANCE SCREENINGS: Saturday November 29, 6.30pm + Sunday November 30, 3.00pm. Starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, and Richard E. Grant, NUREMBERG is the new WWII biopic from Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt. ... more

Pellegrinis

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Wednesday December 3, 7.00pm. Join director Frank Lotito for a post-film Q&A. From its humble beginnings in 1954 to its revered status as one of Melbourne’s most beloved institutions, Pellegrinis – A Melbourne Legacy chronicles the Es ... more

Santa Claus: The Movie

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. ... more

The Doors: When You’re Strange

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of America’s most influential rock bands. With rare footage shot from ... more

Twiggy

Opening Date: Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday December 3, 6.45pm. An intimate, star-studded dive into the birth of an icon, and everything that followed. A look at the life of the greatest it-girl of all time. ... more

Dressed To Kill + Body Double

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

Golden Spurtle, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

Delving into the quirky yet heartfelt traditions of the sleepy Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge, THE GOLDEN SPURTLE documents the annual World Porridge Making Championships. Each year, local residents and competitors from across the globe gather t ... more

Holiday, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

Amanda (Cameron Diaz) lives in LA and is a movie trailer editor. Iris (Kate Winslet) lives in Surrey and is ... more

Love Actually

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

Merry Christmas! Richard Curtis' beloved 2003 Yuletide romance following the lives of eight very different couples during the frantic month ... more

Time Masters, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 11 Dec 2025

RESTORATION! Directed by René Laloux (Fantastic Planet), THE TIME MASTERS (Les Maîtres du temps) is a spectacular intergalactic adventure filled ... more

Arabella: Met Opera

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

Nope + Get Out

Opening Date: Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Jordan Peele teams with Daniel Kaluuya for a pair of modern horror classics. ... more

History of Sound, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 18 Dec 2025

Lead by a captivating pairing of Josh O’Connor (La Chimera) and Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Oliver Hermanus’ (Living) THE HISTORY OF SOUND is a gentle and touching exploration of love and longing. ... more

Citizen Kane + The Magnificent Ambersons

Opening Date: Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025

DOUBLE FEATURE! Orson Welles directs and stars in a pair of cinema classics! ... more

My Brother's Band

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

Orwell: 2+2=5

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! From Academy Award-nominated director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, ORWELL 2+2=5 crafts a definitive portrait of the writer alongside an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophe ... more

Rental Family

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday November 30, 1.30pm. Join us for an Advance Screening of RENTAL FAMILY followed by a zoom Q&A with director Hikari. Set against modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find pur ... more

Sentimental Value

Opening Date: Thursday, 25 Dec 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday December 4, 6.45pm. Join us for an Advance Screening of Joachim Trier’s new drama SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Enjoy a Fjellbekk cocktail on arrival (included with your ticket). Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) returns with ... more

Housemaid, The

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Dec 2025

Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous ... more

Urchin

Opening Date: Friday, 26 Dec 2025

From breakout star Harris Dickinson (Babygirl, Triangle of Sadness) comes URCHIN, his debut feature starring Frank Dillane (Harvest) that premiered at Cannes, where it won two awards. Mike (Dillane) is a young homeless man living in London, struggling to ... more

Right Stuff, The

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

Song Sung Blue

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Jan 2026

Both looking for something more in life, Mike (Jackman) and Claire (Hudon) are both small time performers playing at local fairs. After a chance encounter, the pair decide to partner up and form a tribute back under the pseudonym Thunder & Lightning, sing ... more

My Neighbour Totoro + Spirited Away

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two iconic Studio Ghibli films back-to-back. ... more

Christy

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Sunday December 7, 4:10pm. Join filmmaker David Michôd for an in-cinema post-screening Q&A Led by a committed pairing of Sydney Sweeney (Reality) and Ben Foster (Hell or High Water), David Michôd’s (Animal Kingdom, The King, The Rover ... more

Nouvelle Vague

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Thursday November 18, 7.00pm. Richard Linklater’s (BLUE MOON, Boyhood) NOUVELLE VAGUE is a love letter to French new wave that charts the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’. ... more

No Other Choice

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Jan 2026

When Man-su (Lee), a paper industry expert with 25 years of experience, gets made redundant, his whole world begins to crumble. As his family reduces their lifestyles to accommodate for Man-su’s unemployment, they become at risk of losing their house as h ... more

Andrea Chénier: Met Opera

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

Blue Moon

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Margaret Qualley (Honey Don’t), and Andrew Scott (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) star in Richard Linklater’s (Boyhood) ensemble BLUE MOON, which won the Silver Bear at Venice for Best Supporting Performance for Scott ... more

Secret Agent, The

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

Somebody To Love

Opening Date: Thursday, 22 Jan 2026

After the global success of 2016’s Perfect Strangers, writer/director Paolo Genovese has struck gold again with Somebody to Love, a hilarious, all-star romantic comedy that reveals the innermost thoughts and uncertainties of an Italian couple on their awk ... more

It Was Just an Accident

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Jan 2026

From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, a searing moral thriller that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an unassuming mechanic and former political prisoner, has a chance e ... more

Puritans, The: Met Opera

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

Jimpa

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hannah (Coleman), a film director, travels with her non-binary teenager Frances (Mason-Hyde) from Australia to Amsterdam to visit her gay father, Jim (Lithgow). But when Frances asks to stay abroad with their grandfather for a year, Hannah is forced to re ... more

President's Cake, The

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026

Hasan Hadi’s debut film THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE had its world premiere in Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight, where won the section’s Audience Award and the Caméra d'Or. In 1990s Iraq, the young Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) lives with her ailing grandmother, Bibi ... more

Hamlet: NT Live

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

Turner and Constable

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

Tristan and Isolde: Met Opera

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

Eugene Onegin: Met Opera

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

Last Dream of Frida and Diego, The: Met Opera

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Hamnet

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Jan 2026

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless ... more

Martians (armed with freeze guns and a robot made of cardboard boxes) kidnap Santa Claus and take him to Mars in an attempt to cheer up their miserable offspring. If you like your Christmas movies creepy (and who the hell doesn’t?) this is the best yuleti ... more

Cinema Fiasco: Breakin'

Opening Date: Friday, 9 Jan 2026

Any movie based on a dance craze is a Cinema Fiasco shoo-in; and, in this instance, when it’s an 80’s dance craze and gets the Mickey-and-Judy-putting-on-a-show treatment, you’ve got an entertainment that’s irresistible. Kelly is a talented street dancer. ... more

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