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Thursday, 02 July 2026
When a charming house guest arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride Cherry, and their devoted maid Hero, is thrown into chaos.
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Sunday, 12 April 2026
Bill McDonald is a middle aged alcoholic who is sentenced to six weeks in prison for a minor offence. He volunteers for psychiatric treatment and is committed to a psychiatric hospital supposedly only for the duration of his prison sentence. However under section 27A of Queensland's Mental Health Act he can be held there until hospital authorities declare him eligible for release.
Thursday, 07 May 2026
500 Days In The Wild follows the epic 6-year journey of filmmaker Dianne Whelan as she sets out to reconnect with nature and become the first person to travel the world’s longest trail. The 24,000 km Trans Canada Trail stretches across the continent of North America, connecting the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific oceans. It is the longest trail in the world. For six years filmmaker Dianne Whelan traveled the entirety of the land and water trails, the only person to ever accomplish this journey. 500 Days in the Wild recounts Dianne’s journey by bike, canoe, skis, snowshoes and on foot and her cross-cultural visits with those who live close to the land. This feature doc culled from 800 hours of footage is an intricate weave of adventure film, personal reflection and stunning captures of wildlife and landscapes. Using humour, adventure, beautiful cinematography and a great soundtrack (including songs from Joni Mitchell, First Aid Kit, Xavier Rudd, and The Tragically Hip), 500 Days in the Wild will entertain audiences and inspire hope for the future. She started out alone, disillusioned with state of the world, to look for different ways of caring for the land and for each other. She ended the journey a bit wiser, more hopeful, in love and with a passion to share this story.
Saturday, 02 August 2025
RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in a dystopian 2019, Kaneda and his motorbike gang tear through Neo Tokyo - a city divided by growing tensions. When Kaneda’s friend has an accident, he discovers a secret government project - and acquires telekinetic abilities. Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime film has a cult following and now, Neo Tokyo will be truly bursting off the screen. Japanese language, English subtitles.
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
DOUBLE BILL! The original theatrical cut of Ridley Scott's original outer-space thriller followed by James Cameron's Director's Cut of his chest-bursting sequel, presented back-to-back! Ridley Scott’s ambitious modern classic blends science fiction, horror and some stunning effects with a star turning performance from Sigourney Weaver. In the distant future, the crew of commercial starship Nostromo are heading home when they are awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules by a distress call. The crew are under obligation to investigate and the spaceship descends on the moon. Here they discover a hive colony of a mysterious creature and the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. When one of the creature’s eggs is disturbed, the crew must deal with the consequences. Master filmmaker James Cameron takes on the sequel to the hit 1979 science fiction horror film Alien. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. Fifty-seven years later, she awakens from hyper-sleep and agrees to return to the site with a troop of colonial marines to investigate.
Thursday, 07 May 2026
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge). One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions? Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play.
Thursday, 09 April 2026
After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment. Some Arabic and Hebrew language, English subtitles.
Thursday, 23 April 2026
An isolated couple lose control of a joke about imaginary friends.
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) lives in Paris, and in a world of her own. Introverted, but with a very extroverted imagination, Amelie is obsessed with the small pleasures of life and believes she can orchestrate the fate of others by affecting the slightest changes in their environment. So she sets out to give the lonely and unloved a new lease of life, taking some time to enjoy skimming stones and planning to win the heart of Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz). Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, his incomparable visionary style captures the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingénue. French language, English subtitles
Thursday, 04 June 2026
ENCORE SEASON. Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in encore screenings of the original West End production of The Audience, captured live in London in 2013, and featuring an exclusive new Q&A with key members of the cast and creative team. For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, Blair right up to today’s meetings with the current incumbent David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch. The Audience is written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and directed by two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and was presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries.
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Evicted and jobless, Cory and his pregnant wife are forced to stay with his parents. As the younger couple’s stay extends the parents’ become worried that their disappointing son will never leave the house. Desperate to prove himself, the edges of Cory’s reality slip away and he finds an unexpected path to success that detonates the family.
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Iconic science fiction from the early 80s
Thursday, 23 April 2026
Maria Angeles is a 74-year-old woman who belongs to the Spanish community of Tangier and enjoys the quietness of her life in the colorful Moroccan costal town. When her daughter decides to sell her home, she is forced out against her will. She sets off to reclaim her home and furniture, which have been sold to a vintage dealer. Through this encounter, she unexpectedly rediscovers the possibility of love and sensuality.
Tuesday, 02 June 2026
DOUBLE BILL! Humphrey Bogart stars in two of the greatest films of the 20th century, CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner (Bogart) struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt. Directed by John Huston, San Francisco private detective Sam Spade (Bogart) takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. Starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and Gladys George.
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) directs a tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder as two best friends - a mafia enforcer (Joe Pesci) and a casino executive (Robert DeNiro) - compete for a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite (Sharon Stone).
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
No politics, sport or geography - just cinema! Film buffs unite, for Nova's monthly movie trivia event. Join your host, award-winning comedian Alex Hines, for a fabulous evening of laughs, drinks, food, games, surprises and of course trivia. We’ll test your knowledge on all things cinema, from the obscure, to the blockbuster, to the pure art-house to the juicy gossip, so grab a crew, come on down and show off your film expertise. Please note, bookings are per team. Teams can consist of up to four people. Please arrive a few minutes early to register your team (and grab a drink from the in-cinema bar!)
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
DOUBLE FEATURE! It's a double feature of two Stanley Kubrick classics. Malcolm McDowell stars in the sci-fi satire nased on the novel by Anthony Burgess. Gang leader Alex (McDowell) lives a life filled with crime, sex and the music of Ludwig Van Beethoven. When his crimes catch up with him, an opportunity to participate in an experiment goes awry. Banned from release when made in 1971, Stanley Kubrick's film has since become recognised as a masterpiece of cinema. A pragmatic U.S. Marine (Matthew Modine) observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits, from their brutal boot camp training led by Sgt. Hartman (R Lee Ermey) to the bloody street fighting in Hue, in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 wartime epic FULL METAL JACKET.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Almost twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. The film reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak and Conrad Ricamora. Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film. “The Devil Wears Prada 2” is produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and McKenna. The film debuts exclusively in cinemas April 30, 2026.
Tuesday, 22 December 2026
DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - that of off-duty NYPD Detective John McClane - in the first two instalments of the DIE HARD series, exploding back onto the big screen for Christmas. NYPD officer John McClane (Willis) tries to save his wife and her colleagues when a group of German terrorists take a Christmas party hostage at Los Angeles' Nakatomi Plaza. Making a movie star of Willis when DIE HARD became a smash hit in 1988, it was also the feature debut of Alan Rickman as charismatic terrorist ringleader Hans Gruber. History repeats when John McClane finds himself in the midst of another terrorist takeover, this time at Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport in the midst of the Christmas rush. And, wouldn't you know it, his wife (Bonnie Bedilia) is on-board one of the planes caught up in the emergency. Are you ready to Die Harder this holiday season?
Thursday, 07 May 2026
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Star-making cult classics ahead of their time
Thursday, 07 May 2026
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things Don’t Be Prey is an edge-of-your-seat adventure into one man’s fight to reclaim his life by taking on the world’s most dangerous marathon swims, the Oceans Seven. Featuring unforgettable characters, raw vulnerability and breathtaking ocean feats, it’s a gripping, uplifting journey of resilience, reinvention and what it really takes to survive.
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Mind-bending black comedies from Charlie Kaufman
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 lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Libretto by the composer and Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky
Thursday, 23 April 2026
A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.
Tuesday, 24 November 2026
Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece is a mystery thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. After his wife, Alice (Kidman), tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford (Cruise) sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.
Tuesday, 29 December 2026
Ingmar Bergman's 4-time Oscar winning masterpiece
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
SAVE THE DATE! Annual May 5 screening! Super green! Luc Besson's visually spectacular intergalactic adventure THE FIFTH ELEMENT returns to Cinema Nova for a five-star fifth of the fifth screening event. Since its debut in 1997 THE FIFTH ELEMENT has gone on to become a cult favourite thanks to lavishly detailed production and creature design, incredible Jean-Paul Gaultier costumes, manic turns by Chris Tucker and Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis at his dead-pan best and the debut of B-movie queen Milla Jovovich. Military man turned cab drive Korben Dallas (Willis) is thrust into a world-saving, galaxy-spanning adventure after picking up an unusual fare in the form of the mysterious Leeloo (Jovovich). A must-see on the big screen, don't forget your Multipass!
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
I have only one rule, don't talk about this double feature
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Franz Kafka is torn between the strict expectations of his father Hermann, his monotonous daily routine at an insurance company, and his deep-rooted urge to write and thus give literary expression to his innermost feelings. He finally receives initial attention, while he continues to try to lead a life between conforming to others, such as his dominant father, and self-realisation. Time and again, Franz experiences intense relationships with women who enchant him to the utmost, inevitably facing the tensions between closeness and withdrawal. Supported by his friend and publisher, the picture emerges of a man searching for his place in the world – between a sense of duty, inner turmoil and creative expression. Various languges, English subtitles
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her face but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the true story of her rebellious, passionate and turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art. Exhibition on Screen’s trademark combination of interviews with those who knew her and world experts, commentary and a detailed exploration of her art, combined with new special bonus footage from the 2026 Tate exhibition, delivers a treasure trove of colour and emotion. This personal and intimate film offers privileged access to her works, her home, her studio and highlights the source of her feverish creativity, her resilience and her unmatched lust for life, beauty and revolution.
Thursday, 09 April 2026
Monster Fest Presents! A desperate mother decides to take matters into her own hands in pursuit of the one experience her son cannot provide for himself. To achieve this, she drags an unsuspecting stranger into a spiralling nightmare of absurdity, filth, and escalating insanity. Birds do it. Bees do it. And by God, her son will do it too!
Thursday, 16 April 2026
Set in contemporary London, Fuze unfolds after an unexploded World War II bomb is unearthed at a busy construction site, forcing a massive citywide evacuation. Amid the escalating tension and chaos, a daring criminal operation is set in motion—one that uses the evacuation as cover for a meticulously planned heist. As authorities race against time to contain the crisis, alliances blur and moral boundaries are crossed, the film deftly propels audiences through a series of calculated twists delivering a wildly entertaining ride.
Thursday, 14 May 2026
Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living together and barely scraping by in suburban Sydney. But when Karli’s father offers her a little money and a one-way ticket to New York, she finally sees a way out of her dead-end life—that is, until the money goes missing, kickstarting a final night out on the town that none of them will ever forget.
Tuesday, 17 November 2026
Twentieth century documentaries that broke the mould
Thursday, 23 April 2026
KOKO RECOMMENDS! Nova's Film Club host Koko presents Harmony Korine's directorial debut, which shocked audiences and critics in 1997, two years after Larry Clark's incendiary Kids, written by Korine, took the world by storm. Koko says about GUMMO, "Never have I more felt the need to shower after watching a film than when I saw Harmony Korine’s 1997 debut feature. And I mean that in the best possible way. GUMMO transports you to a forgotten, tornado-stricken town somewhere in Ohio, packed with bizarre and nihilistic characters like Bunny Boy the skateboarder, the BB gun slingin' Solomon, and his tap dancing mother. They fill their days with mundane activities, making for an unforgettable experience. It’s visually-striking viewing for brave audiences, saturated in red-neck realism. A cult classic." Please note Gummo features scenes which some may find distressing, audience discretion is advised.
Thursday, 28 May 2026
When Helen's beloved father passes away, she is overtaken by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to Cambridge with her. Ready to embark on the arduous process of trying to train the wildest of animals, Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone. But as she labors to teach Mabel how to hunt and fly free on her own, Helen uncovers how neglected her own emotions and life have become. Based on a true story and a memoir of the same name, H IS FOR HAWK is a soaring journey of the connection between people and nature, and how it might be possible to reconcile loss through love.
Wednesday, 08 April 2026
Produced on iPhone13, featuring a brilliant young comic cast, made on the smell of an oily rag, a Melbourne-made, hilarious, heart-warming comedy. Thomas, a young oddball millionaire who can’t make any friends, sobers up a homeless drunk, Deacon, in an effort to make him a friend. Meanwhile Thomas’s neighbour, Blake, discovers his girlfriend once had a ‘Three-Day Life-Changing Sex Marathon’ with his best mate, Logan. Although this happened years before Blake and his girlfriend got together, Blake is so intimidated, he decides to end the friendship with Logan – only Logan won’t let him. The four guys become entangled when Blake and Logan start competing to be Thomas’s best mate just to get at each other. Thomas, oblivious to the real reason for their sudden interest, is ecstatic about new friend prospects but Deacon becomes homicidally possessive.
Tuesday, 15 December 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 moppet left behind by his vacationing family to battle home-invading burgulars in John Hughes and Christopher Columbus' blockbuster comedies HOME ALONE and HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK. Eight-year-old Kevin (Culkin, who went on to become one of the biggest stars of the 90s) must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas. THEN, one year after being left home alone to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
Tuesday, 08 December 2026
Oh the places you'll go with Studio Ghibli
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
Psychological horrors from Kim Jee-woon
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Saturday, 18 April 2026
Emily (Kylah Day), a young Indigenous woman unwittingly reactivates a generational curse that has laid dormant for 25 years. Dismissed as mentally unstable by those around her, Emily must reconnect with her ancestry to defeat the vengeful evil spirit "Giniirr" before it claims her life as payment for her ancestors' sins.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
From Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg, this acclaimed new documentary traces Jeff Buckley's meteoric rise, the legacy of Grace, and the haunting resonance of an artist whose life was cut tragically short
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
DOUBLE BILL: Demonic Double! Join us to watch cult classics JENNIFER’S BODY and the 1992 film BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER on the big screen. The unapologetically campy and queer horror film starring Megan Fox as a high school student turned demon is one of the biggest cult classics of the 21st century and is now returning the big screen in this back to back screening! Before the hit 90s TV show, there was a 1992 film bringing Buffy to life. Watch the original Buffy Summers as she learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
Thursday, 09 April 2026
After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
Thursday, 11 December 2025
Kokuho (2025) is a drama about a gangster family-born boy adopted by a kabuki actor in post-war Japan, who becomes a gifted performer.
Saturday, 20 June 2026
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. Gabriela Lena Frank | Libretto by Nilo Cruz
Thursday, 23 July 2026
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Two star-crossed teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most - each other.
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Two folk horror favourites from director Robert Eggers
Sunday, 12 July 2026
Director: David Wilkinson THE MARBLES is the story of the greatest art heist in history and the fight to change a great wrong. In 1801, Lord Elgin removed half of the Parthenon, causing a scandal among his contemporaries. What followed was a 200-year battle between Greece and the British Empire over stolen heritage. In 1983, Melina Mercouri ignited a global movement that redefined cultural ownership and national pride, and it started a long battle by citizens of the United Kingdom insisting that these priceless works of art be returned to the country of their creation. A Guerilla Docs/AHEPA Victoria co-production.
Thursday, 09 April 2026
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" (2024).
Thursday, 09 April 2026
MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor's daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Dani and Christian are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.
Tuesday, 04 August 2026
DOUBLE BILL! Alfred Hitchcock directs two must-see thrillers that forever changed cinemas. Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, a New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Adapted from the novel STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by Patricia Highsmith, a psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
DOUBLE BILL! Attention all Bong-heads: Oscar-winning Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s modern classic Parasite – the biggest box office hit in Cinema Nova’s history – shares the screen in a thrilling/hilarious double bill with the filmmaker’s second feature (and first collaboration with Parasite star Song Kang-Ho) Memories Of Murder. Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, International Feature and Original Screenplay, as well as Cannes’ Palme d’Or, Parasite is a gripping social satire that observes how four destitute adults worm their way into the lives of a wealthy Seoul family. By turns shocking and side-splittingly funny, the film is an all-time Cinema Nova favourite that screened for nine straight months before its run was rudely cut short by the pandemic. Loosely based on the true story of Korea’s first serial killer, director Bong’s Memories Of Murder takes place in the country’s rural outskirts. Song Kang-Ho stars as a small town police detective reluctantly paired with an investigator from Seoul (Kim Sang-kyung) – two officers with vastly different approaches who attempt to solve a series of grisly murders. Featuring the filmmaker’s now signature creepy-comic tone, it’s considered one of the greatest Korean films ever made. Korean language, English subtitles.
Thursday, 14 May 2026
Three-time Emmy nominee Melanie Lynskey (YELLOW JACKETS, THE LAST OF US) and acclaimed NZ actress Robyn Malcolm (TOP OF THE LAKE, AFTER THE PARTY) star as Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse; two ordinary women who together stand up and take on the government, justice system and a company that will stop at nothing to protect itself, after the 2010 Pike River Mine explosion takes the lives of 29 men underground. This is a film about the powerless vs. the powerful, of people vs. money, of right vs. wrong. An inspiring true story of an incredible female friendship and together what is possible when you simply won’t give up.
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene... Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
Tuesday, 09 June 2026
Surrender your heart to Céline Sciamma
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Follows a wedding singer and a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic consequences.
Thursday, 14 May 2026
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients she is deeply troubled. Convinced that it was murder, she decides to investigate...
Thursday, 16 April 2026
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Friday, 05 September 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 into an Oscar nominated 'making of' comedy/biopic. It is the most outrageous cinema experience you’ll ever have and is like nothing you've seen before. Written by, directed by, and starring the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau, this misguided disaster-piece has garnered a massive cult following all over the world, leaving audiences stunned and wondering “how can something so bad be so good?” Johnny (Wiseau) seems to have it all - a beautiful fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle), great friends and a job with a promotion in the works. But Lisa isn’t who she seems. Manipulative and restless, she sets her sights on Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and they start a torrid affair that soon causes Johnny’s perfect world to crumble. THE ROOM is an audience interactive event like no other at Nova. Each screening comes with it's own 'The Room Guide', as well as loud cheering, quoting, and yelling, and LOTS of (eco friendly) spoons to be thrown at the screen. So take a seat and watch THE ROOM as it was (never) meant to be seen! Please note that it is a condition of entry to all sessions of THE ROOM that bags must be presented for inspection if requested.
Thursday, 04 June 2026
A remote German farm harbours generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Visually dazzling adventures from Argento and Tarsem
Thursday, 19 March 2026
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.
Tuesday, 01 December 2026
Revenge thriller masterpieces from Welles and Wilder
Saturday, 11 April 2026
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzosoprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke. Richard Wagner | Libretto by the composer
Saturday, 18 April 2026
A tale of human connection, hope and resilience in the face of great tragedy, UNDER A BAMBOO SKY tells the unbelievable story of Australian soldiers held prisoner by the Japanese in WWII. Using their own words, their own voices, UNDER A BAMBOO SKY weaves the recollections (oral testimony) of more than 60 former POWs together with newly colourised archival material and new location footage to deliver a moving, intimate and revelatory first-hand account of their experience. Captured during the Japanese offensive and imprisoned in Singapore’s Changi Barracks, the film follows the years long journey of these soldiers through four countries: forced into slave labour building the Thai Burma Railway, shipwrecked at sea, and sent into factories and down coal mines in Japan. After bearing witness to some of WWII’s most history-defining events, they tell of returning home to families, wives and sweethearts after years away, and of the price they paid for the trauma they endured. Shining through the horrors of war is the spirit of these men who, remarkably, demonstrate an inspiring human capacity to find beauty in their surroundings and hold onto hope in the worst of circumstances. Under A Bamboo Sky is their story.
Tuesday, 03 November 2026
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Tuesday, 01 September 2026
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Thursday, 30 April 2026
Warwick Thornton's 'Wolfram' unfolds in 1932 Central Australia and is the follow-up film to his acclaimed 'Sweet Country' (2017). Aboriginal children are forced into "wolfram" (tungsten) mining until violence entangles them with ruthless outlaws. At the heart of the story is Pansy (Deborah Mailman) who is longing for her stolen children. A tightly wrought frontier western rooted in real family history, 'Wolfram' sees Aboriginal siblings Max and Kid forced to work in the mines under Billy's control. When Billy dies suddenly, Max is kidnapped by outlaws Frank and Casey, while Kid refuses to let him go. At Kennedy's station, the brothers encounter Philomac, the boy from 'Sweet Country' (2017), now older and indentured. Brought together by circumstance, the three seize a fragile chance to escape before dawn, pursued by Kennedy and the outlaws in a relentless chase across the desert. Along the way they find temporary refuge with Chinese miners Shi and Jimmi. At the story's emotional core is Pansy, a mother longing for the return of her lost generation. 'Wolfram' is a taut western of kinship, survival and colonial reckoning in the Central Desert.
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Rachel Ormont lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled, craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency, Rachel's humanity is imprinted by and organized around commodity and perception. Her parasocial relationship with the product being advertised a pop star Mommy 6.0 for ratings. She becomes introspectively involved with discovering her real identity and whether she exists in the real world.