Cinema Nova

17/10/2026

Nova-fave PAN'S LABYRINTH turns 20 this year and to celebrate it is returning to our screens , fully restored (supervised by Guillermo del Toro himself) this November. Reacquaint yourself with this modern day classic by watching the new trailer!

Our PAN’S LABYRINTH tickets are on sale now. Season commences Nov 19.

Coming October 29Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of PAN’S LABYRINT...

17/10/2026

No one does unrequited love and yearning quite like Jane Austen. Her classic SENSE AND SENSIBILITY gets a spirited and contemporary adaption by in the hands of 'Blue Jean' director Georgia Oakley.

Daisy Edgar Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles play the Dashwood sisters. Elinor and Marianne. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY season now showing. Book: cinemanova.com.au/films/sense-and-sensibility

17/10/2026

We built this Double Feature and Movie Epic lineup brick by Kubrick.

For the next 6 weeks, Nova's programming team promises highschool vampire fights, dystopian political thrillers, modern-classic folk horrors, plus 159 minutes of Tom Cruise fumbling Nicole Kidman.

JENNIFER'S BODY + BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Oct 20
THE SHINING, Oct 27
V FOR VENDETTA + CIVIL WAR, Nov 3
THE LIGHTHOUSE + THE VVITCH, Nov 10
GREY GARDENS + SANS SOLEIL, Nov 17
EYES WIDE SHUT, Nov 24

Get your tix at https://www.cinemanova.com.au/events/double-features-movie-epics

17/10/2026

Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas season commences today!

Witness this celebration of The Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances.

Book now: cinemanova.com.au/films/twenty-years-of-the-met-in-cinemas-met-opera

17/10/2026

“I feel like I’m witnessing little miracles everyday” – Travis Knight, director.

From the studio behind Coraline, WILDWOOD, the animated epic fantasy follows classmates Prue and Curtis journeying into the ‘Impassable Wilderness’ looking to locate and rescue Prue’s baby brother.

Peak behind the lens at the artists and animators creating the most ambitious stop-motion film in history.

WILDWOOD commencing Oct 22 at Cinema Nova

Get your tix at https://www.cinemanova.com.au/films/wildwood
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16/10/2026

Our final round of 2026 anniversary screenings has dropped and it includes the 1971 religious horror masterpiece THE DEVILS. It's now fully restored, assembled from the original camera negative.
THE DEVILS commences Oct 29. Tix on sale now.

🎬 Restoration! VIDEODROME. David Cronenberg's chilling 1983 body horror is now screening. Tickets at link in bio.

🎬 50th Anniversary! CARRIE, named as Fleabag’s (Phoebe Waller Bridges) favourite period film ;) CARRIE returns to Nova screens from Oct 23. Tickets at link in bio.

🎬 ROCKY is Sylvester Stallone’s career-defining work and an inspiring story of hope, determination, and heart. ROCKY turns fifty this year. Anniversary screening season commences Nov 5. Tickets on sale now!

🎬 Come for the history, stay for the costumes at our 20th anniversary screenings of Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE. Stars Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman and Judy Davis. Season commences Nov 12. Tickets on sale now.

🎬 PAN'S LABYRINTH!
Fawn over Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 folk-horror masterpiece at 20th anniversary screening season which commences Nov 19. Tickets on sale now.

🎬 GREY GARDENS – Restoration. Witness the vibrance, colour, and eclectic originality of mother and daughter duo, both named Edith Bouvier Beale, who reside in Grey Gardens a decaying East Hamptons mansion. Season commences Nov 26.

🎬 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Frank Capra’s Christmas-eve set classic. Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Henry Travers. From Dec 17. Tix on sale now!

16/10/2026

War what is it good for? Making historical dramas it seems. PRESSURE from Aussie director Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) details the tense 72 hours leading up to D-Day (June 6, 1944) in WWII and explores how the weather determined the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history.

⚫ The incredible ensemble cast is led by Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as meteorologist Captain James Stagg. The forecast for PRESSURE is a Meet the Filmmaker screening this Tuesday (Oct 20) ahead of the film’s release on Oct 22.

⚫ Want to explore another facet of WWII? Then DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE is part one of a duology about the statesman and former President of France, Charles de Gaulle. Setting the story between 1940, when France collapses and signs the Armistice, and 1943, DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE is now showing.

⚫ LA BOLA NEGRA (now showing) is set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Sebastián is a musician conscripted into Franco's Nationalist army, who develops a forbidden bond with Rafael, a Republican prisoner of war.

⚫ Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski’s (Cold War) FATHERLAND comes to Nova on Nov 12. The film is set in 1949 in a divided, post-WWII Germany. Writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) embark on a tour across a country in ruins. FATHERLAND commences Nov 12 at Nova.

⚫ Joint Best Actor winners at Cannes, COWARD is set along the Belgian front lines during WWI. Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) arrives at the front and meets Francis (Valentin Campagne), a soldier organising theatrical drag revues to boost troop morale amidst the backdrop of battlefield violence.
COWARD comes to Nova Jan 7, 2027

⚫ DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ, set between 1943-44 is part 2 of the duology about the statesman and former President of France. To free France, General de Gaulle (Simon Abkarian) must unite a divided Resistance. He also fights to establish his legitimacy with the Allies.
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ commences at Nova April 1, 2027

15/10/2026

Our final round of 2026 anniversary screenings has just been announced it’s devilishly good! The centrepiece, Ken Russell's religious horror masterpiece THE DEVILS (1971) has been fully restored, assembled from the original camera negative.

THE DEVILS 55th anniversary screening season commences Oct 29.
Tix on sale now: cinemanova.com.au/films/devils-the

Check our other restoration and anniversary screenings for Oct-Dec:
Restorations:
VIDEODROME, now showing
GREY GARDENS, Nov 26
Anniversaries:
CARRIE, Oct 23.
ROCKY, Nov 5
MARIE ANTOINETTE, Nov 12
PAN'S LABYRINTH, Nov 19.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Dec 17

15/10/2026

It's time to get the ball rolling on another SENSational week of new releases at Cinema Nova, 20 years in the making!

LA BOLA NEGRA, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, NAZA, JEBEDIAH: ARE WE OKAY? STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! and 20 YEARS OF THE MET IN CINEMAS screening daily.

Get your tix at https://www.cinemanova.com.au/

From Cannes-winning Spanish directing duo Javiers Calvo and Ambrossi, LA BOLA NEGRA explores what it means to be gay throughout different eras, focusing on ‘three existences’ that are connected through themes of sexuality, desire, pain, and inheritance.

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novael, Georgia Oakley's (Blue Jean) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne.

The follow-up to the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA exposes AI-driven military targeting systems and casualty calculations used by the Israeli military in Gaza.

JEBEDIAH: ARE WE OKAY? is the candid documentary journeying the thirty-year career of the group, celebrating the unbreakable connection of the bandmates, and the indelible impact they have had on the Australian music scene.

Exclusive to Cinema Nova, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! is a gripping portrait of journalist Amy Goodman, whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history.

TWENTY YEARS OF THE MET IN CINEMAS is a celebration of the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances.