Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Filmed in Technicolor and billed as 'The Wonder Musical of the Future!' (whatever that is), Dr Seuss is the writer behind this 1953 musical fantasy of a boy who travels to a magical world where a diabolical teacher has enslaved children t ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday August 14, 6:45pm. EXCLUSIVE! Oscar-nominee Kristen Stewart makes her feature debut with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER an unflinching portrait of womanhood, survival, and artistry, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! Luis Buñuel, the father of cinematic surrealism, directs a satirical dark comedy following a group of middle class individuals attempting a seemingly impossible task: dining together. Faced by continual interuptions in an increasingly ill ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

WHAT THE FEST 2! David Lynch's surreal psychological thriller returns to the cinema screen fully restored. Defying simple explanation, it has been called both a masterpiece and an enigma. The last feature completed by the filmmaker, Lynch also acted ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

Screening as part of the Oslo Trilogy (LOVE, SEX, and DREAMS) Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically connected films are reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colours' Trilogy. Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), a doctor, and Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobse ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

Led by a career-best performance from Matthew McConaughey, THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING is a crowd-pleasing story about honey, family, and music, with a knockout debut performance from Angela LookingGlass. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Saturday August 15, 7:00pm. Join us for an Advance Screening of Matt Johnson’s TONY. Enjoy a Cape Cod Mule cocktail on arrival. Matt Johnson (Blackberry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) adapts Anthony Bourdain’s seminal memoir Kit ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026

Kubrick directs cinema's finest rise and fall Barry (Ryan O’Neal), an Irish rogue and incorrigible trickster, gets into a relationship with a rich widow and cheats his way to the top of the 18th-century British society, by assuming the identity of her de ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

35th ANNIVERSARY! Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Ice Cube (Friday), and Angela Bassett (Strange Days) deliver breakout performances in writer-director John Singleton’s Oscar-nominated drama set within Los Angeles' gang culture, BOYZ N THE HOOD. Tre (G ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

Screening as part of the Oslo Trilogy (LOVE, SEX, and DREAMS) Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically connected films are reminiscent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colours' Trilogy. Johanne (Ella Øverbye) documents her intense crush on her French teac ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

In the spirit of A Dog's Purpose and The Story of Hachiko comes a Thai drama about the intense bond ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Saturday August 29, 12:50pm. Join us for a live virtual Q&A with filmmaker Gregg Araki. Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, The Doom Generation) is back with I WANT YOUR SEX, a fresh, fun, and sexy look at art and murder, led by Olivia W ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

NOVA EXCLUSIVE! Veneno (Victor Prieto Simental), a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco (Osvaldo Sanchez), a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself, and convinces ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2026

Veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones’ directorial debut SENTIENT explores the moral, emotional, and clinical complexities around animal testing. A passionate primatologist, Dr Lisa Jones-Engel, a former animal tester turned animal welfare advocate, s ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Aug 2026

Screening in collaboration with Anthony Firth’s documentary MOCKBUSTER, which screens directly before this session. Click here for tickets to our Meet the Filmmaker session of MOCKBUSTER Anthony Frith’s debut feature THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT was shot o ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Aug 2026

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday August 28, 6:50pm. Join us for a live Q&A with filmmaker Anthony Frith, as he discusses his documentary MOCKBUSTER and feature THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, which screens directly after this feature. Click here for tickets to THE ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 28 Aug 2026

Amyl And the Sniffers Present TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE, a concert film in which the band perform country-influenced versions of their songs, two unreleased tracks, and a cover of the Slim Dusty classic 'Lights On The Hill'. TRUTH OR CONSEQU ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 2026

The ultimate road trips from the trippiest directors WILD AT HEART partners David Lynch with his eventual muse Laura Dern, and Nicolas Cage. After serving prison time for a self-defence killing, Sailor Ripley (Cage) reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026

After more than five years in the making, Antonin Baudry’s deftly drawn geopolitical thriller DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE is the first part of a duology about the statesman and former President of France. June 1940. France collapses and signs the Armistice. In ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday August 28, 7:00pm. Led by a standout cast of young talent, including writer/director Alex Ullom, IT ENDS is a terrifying psychological horror about being trapped on the road. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026

PREVIEW SCREENINGS: Friday August 28 – Sunday August 30. Writer/director Pascal Bonitzer (The Stolen Painting) brings Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret into the modern age as the detective attempts to solve the murder of a former diplomat with a long-he ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 2026

IN CONVERSATION: Thursday September 3, 6:50pm. Join Saffron Zomer (Aus Democracy Network), Michael Bachelard (MEAA), and Emma Fulu (Equality Institute) for a post-screening panel discussion moderated by Sherelee Moody (The Femicide Watch). MEET THE FILM ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 2026

In the outback, no one can hear you scream WAKE IN FRIGHT is a classic of Australian cinema, employing a foreign perspective of both the land and its inhabitants. After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 2026

WE LIKE LAIKA! In anticipation of LAIKA Studio’s next feature WILDWOOD, we invite you to take a look at the works of one of stop motion’s most influential studios. Henry Selick’s (The Nightmare Before Christmas) stop-motion masterpiece CORALINE is a brea ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 2026

In the remote South Korea village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung- min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! Star-making cult classics ahead of their time.

Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a dysfunctional, upper-middle ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2026

From the inventive documentarian duo Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth, The Extraordinary Miss Flower) comes BROKEN ENGLISH, an intimate and ingenious exploration of rock icon Marianne Faithfull. A posterchild of counterculture and lead ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2026

Alexandre Koberidze (What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?), returns with DRY LEAF, a profound, unique Georgian drama shot entirely on a 2008-model Sony Ericsson W595 mobile phone. When his daughter Lisa, a sports photographer documenting rural soccer ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2026

WE LIKE LAIKA! In anticipation of LAIKA Studio’s next feature WILDWOOD, we invite you to take a look at the works of one of stop motion’s most influential studios. A fantastical look at the underworld, PARANORMAN brings ghosts and zombies to ghoulish sto ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026

DOUBLE FEATURE! A science fiction epic, and a psychological drama from two of Europe’s greatest arthouse filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky’s SOLARIS ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 24 Sep 2026

WE LIKE LAIKA! In anticipation of LAIKA Studio’s next feature WILDWOOD, we invite you to take a look at the works of one of stop motion’s most influential studios. Boasting an incredible cast of talent, THE BOXTROLLS stars the voices of Elle Fanning, Ton ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2026

MOVIE EPIC! 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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2026

20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA SCREENING: Tuesday September 29, 6:45pm. Join us for a double feature of TWILIGHT and NEW MOON to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the cult classic’s sequel (the ticket price includes entry into the double feature and a hard-cover d ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Oct 2026

ADVANCE SCREENINGS: Friday Sep 25 to Sunday Sep 27. Inspired by a remarkable, near-mythic story, THE GREAT ARCH is a darkly comic and thought-provoking tale led by a captivating Claes Bang (The Square). ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 1 Oct 2026

WE LIKE LAIKA! In anticipation of LAIKA Studio’s next feature WILDWOOD, we invite you to take a look at the works of one of stop motion’s most influential studios. Featuring state of the art stop-motion animation, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS is a delightful ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 2 Oct 2026

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy. Telling the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026

IN POSSESSION, a woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behaviour after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 2026

WE LIKE LAIKA! In anticipation of LAIKA Studio’s next feature WILDWOOD, we invite you to take a look at the works of one of stop motion’s most influential studios. Lined with a stellar voice cast, including Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Zoe Saldana and Za ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 2026

Visually dazzling adventures from Argento and Tarsem SUSPIRIA is giallo maestro Dario Argento’s most successful export. Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and sh ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 2026

The live theater capture of the hit musical Hadestown, which won eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 2026

Explores what it means to be gay throughout different eras, focusing on "three existences" that are connected through themes of ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026

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, 22 Oct 2026

Starring Golden Globe-winner Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara (The King and I), Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, shocked and delighted audiences at its 1925 premiere. Two upper-class wives, the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2026

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Dann ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Oct 2026

Drawing on Japanese and Korean folktales, Dario Russo’s debut THE FOX is an absurdly comic Australian folktale starring Jai Courtney, Emily Browning, and Damon Herriman, as well as the voices of Olivia Colman and Sam Neill. Nick (Courtney) is a small-tow ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 29 Oct 2026

Detailing the tense 72 hours before D-Day, PRESSURE is a powerfully performed exploration of the weather’s involvement in the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history, incredibly led by Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser (Rental Family) and Adam Scott (Blue M ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 31 Oct 2026

Melbourne's OG TWILIGHT SAGA movie marathon returns due to enormous popular demand! It started with Cinema Nova revisiting TWILIGHT for a “one-off” event in March 2022 to celebrate Kristen Stewart's Oscar nomination for Spencer and Robert Pattinson's ar ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Nov 2026

The ultimate "that could never happen here" double V FOR VENDETTA is a visually stunning, thematically rich adaptation written by The Wachowskis. Following the world war, London is a police state occupied by a fascist government, and a vigilante known on ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 2026

In a seaside village lost to time, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) delivers the food relied on by the townsfolk, who ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2026

Two folk horror favourites from director Robert Eggers THE LIGHTHOUSE stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in a mesmeric exploration of isolation and madness. In a remote island, Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson) arrives as a lighthouse keeper and assists h ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 2026

Paweł Pawlikowski (COLD WAR, IDA) returns to the screen with FATHERLAND, the third film in his spiritual trilogy on identity, guilt, family, and love in the tumultuous landscape of post War Europe. At the height of the Cold War, writer Thomas Mann (Hanns ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2026

The untold story of Australian "OZ" rock is told in this impressive look at the rise into worldwide success of ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2026

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

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

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

Opening Date: Tuesday, 8 Dec 2026

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

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

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

Opening Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 2026

Acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith (Mirren) has no desire to leave her sanctum in Switzerland before she dies. But her solitude ... more

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

Opening Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 2027

Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a Romanian-Norwegian Pentecostal couple, move with their five children from Romania to Norway after Mihai’s parents ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 2026

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 31 Oct 2026

The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations. Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Nov 2026

Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists star in Verdi’s thrilling take on Shakespeare’s immortal tale. Following past triumphs in many of Verdi’s signature baritone roles, Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent t ... more

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

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

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

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

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

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