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Spend an evening under the stars at Darwin's premier outdoor cinema, the Deckchair Cinema. We're an award winning outdoor cinema on the edge of Darwin’s Harbour open 7 nights a week from mid-April to mid-November. Come down early and enjoy a refreshing beverage from our fully licensed kiosk (no BYO) or feast your taste buds on a hot meal. Gates open nightly at 5.45pm so you can enjoy a tropical sunset before the 7.00pm screening. We are easily accessible via a well-lit, picturesque walkway from the City (via The Esplanade-Damoe Ra Walkway) or the Waterfront Precinct, and there is plenty of parking and bike racks available on site. The Deckchair Cinema is operated by the Darwin Film Society, established in 1954, to give Darwin audiences access to movies that would otherwise go unseen on the big screen. Being Darwin's only independent cinema our program is a diverse range of Australian, popular, family, foreign and classic films. The Darwin Film Society also operate Flix in the Wet (Sunday afternoons, January through March) and the Darwin International Film Festival (annually in September). TERMS OF USE OF OUR FACEBOOK PAGE

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The last four fundraiser screenings of 2026! 🎬Together, we’ve raised $77,457 for local not-for-profit organisations so f...
13/10/2026

The last four fundraiser screenings of 2026! 🎬

Together, we’ve raised $77,457 for local not-for-profit organisations so far this year! Thank you to our audiences, volunteers and fundraising groups for making our Sunday fundraisers so great!

There are just four fundraiser screenings left for 2026. Join us for a film under the stars and help these local organisations finish the year on a high!

🚀 Sunday 18 October: Project Hail Mary
Fundraiser for Darwin Show Jumping Club

🎶 Sunday 25 October: Power Ballad
Fundraiser for Tara Irish Dance Company Incorporated

đź’Ą Sunday 1 November: Die Hard
Fundraiser for Vinnies NT

🥾 Sunday 8 November: 500 Days in the Wild
Fundraiser for Weedwalkers Top End

Bring your friends, enjoy a night at the movies and support a local cause!

Book now: deckchaircinema.com


Weedwalkers Top End Project Hail Mary
Tara Academy Darwin Die Hard
Vinnies Australia

What’s on this week at Deckchair Cinema! 🎥🎬Pick your night and settle in under the stars! Shaun the Sheep returns on Sat...
13/10/2026

What’s on this week at Deckchair Cinema! 🎥🎬

Pick your night and settle in under the stars! Shaun the Sheep returns on Saturday, we’ve got late screenings for the night owls, and Sunday’s Project Hail Mary screens in support the Darwin Show Jumping Club.

Tuesday 13 October
7pm: The Love That Remains

Wednesday 14 October
7pm: Earth’s Greatest Enemy

Thursday 15 October
7pm: Dead Man’s Wire

Friday 16 October
7pm: Chasing Millions
9pm: Big Girls Don’t Cry

Saturday 17 October
7pm: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
9:20pm: Dead Man’s Wire

Sunday 18 October
7pm: Project Hail Mary
Fundraiser for Darwin Show Jumping Club

Gates open at 5:30pm. Come early for dinner and a sunset drink before the film!

Book now: deckchaircinema.com

Project Hail Mary

Sandra HĂĽller has become one of the most compelling actors working in European cinema, and Rose gives her a remarkable r...
12/10/2026

Sandra HĂĽller has become one of the most compelling actors working in European cinema, and Rose gives her a remarkable role to inhabit.

The Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival for her portrayal of Rose, a scarred and taciturn soldier trying to create a new life in the wreckage of 17th-century Europe.

The Thirty Years’ War has ended when Rose arrives in a remote Protestant village and lays claim to a long-abandoned farm. The villagers are suspicious, but the paperwork appears legitimate, and Rose sets about working the land and trying to earn a place within the community.

There is one problem: the life Rose has built depends on a carefully protected identity.

Inspired by real historical accounts of people crossing the rigid gender boundaries of their time, director Markus Schleinzer turns the story into something much richer than a conventional period drama. It’s about the freedoms attached to gender, property and social status, and the extraordinary compromises required simply to choose your own life.

Shot in stark, beautiful black and white, Rose is severe in places, unexpectedly funny in others, and anchored throughout by Hüller’s fiercely controlled performance.

MIFF compared its exploration of gender privilege to Sally Potter’s Orlando, while Screen International called the film “an elegant, intelligent work.”

đź“… Monday 26 October
🍽️ Dinner by SALTWATER @ BUNDILLA
🎟️ Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

🎟️ Special advance preview now on sale!Be among the first in Darwin to see Wicker at Deckchair Cinema on Saturday 31 Oct...
11/10/2026

🎟️ Special advance preview now on sale!

Be among the first in Darwin to see Wicker at Deckchair Cinema on Saturday 31 October, ahead of its regular screenings in November.

Starring Olivia Colman, Alexander SkarsgĂĄrd and Peter Dinklage, Wicker is a wonderfully strange new fantasy romance.

Colman plays a prickly fisherwoman living on the edge of a seaside village where everyone seems to have an opinion about the fact that she remains unmarried.

Eventually, she has enough.

She approaches the local basketmaker, played by Peter Dinklage, and commissions exactly what the village thinks she needs: a husband.

What comes back is Alexander SkarsgĂĄrd, meticulously woven from wicker, impossibly handsome, completely devoted and, rather inconveniently for everyone else, a considerably better partner than most of the actual men in town.

Naturally, the village does not take this well.

Also starring Elizabeth Debicki and Richard E. Grant, Wicker premiered at Sundance before being selected as the Opening Night film at MIFF 2026.

đź“… Special advance preview: Saturday 31 October
đź“… Also screening Friday 6 November & Monday 9 November
🎟️ Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton lead an incredible cast in & Sons, a darkly funny family drama about a very complicated r...
10/10/2026

Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton lead an incredible cast in & Sons, a darkly funny family drama about a very complicated reunion.

Nighy plays Andrew Dyer, a world-famous novelist who has spent almost 20 years shut away from his family following an incident that fractured the Dyer household.

Then, convinced he is about to die, Andrew suddenly summons his estranged sons home.

They arrive expecting apologies, explanations and perhaps finally some kind of reconciliation. Instead, Andrew tells them something so unexpected that it throws their family history, and their understanding of one another, completely off balance.

Alongside Nighy and Staunton, the ensemble includes George MacKay, Johnny Flynn, Noah Jupe and Dominic West, giving the film plenty to work with as old resentment, rivalry and affection start bubbling back to the surface.

Directed by Pablo Trapero and co-written by Sarah Polley, & Sons premiered at TIFF and plays with family drama, black comedy and a genuinely surprising central mystery.

It’s a film about difficult fathers, damaged relationships and the possibility that even after decades of getting things wrong, a family might still have something left to say to one another.

đź“… Wednesday 21 October, 7pm (dinner by )
đź“… Tuesday 27 October, 7pm (dinner by Three Mum's Kitchen)
🎟️ Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

🌿 We’ve reached our final members’ free screening of the year, and we’ve saved a beautiful one for last.On Tuesday 20 Oc...
10/10/2026

🌿 We’ve reached our final members’ free screening of the year, and we’ve saved a beautiful one for last.

On Tuesday 20 October, Deckchair members can see The Blue Trail free. Members of the general public are also welcome to purchase a ticket for the night.

At 77, Tereza is still working, living independently and perfectly capable of deciding what comes next.

The government disagrees.

In a near future imagined by director Gabriel Mascaro, older citizens are being relocated to isolated colonies so younger generations can supposedly get on with keeping the economy moving. When Tereza receives her relocation order, she refuses to quietly disappear.

Instead, she escapes.

What follows is an unexpected journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon, as Tereza meets strangers, pursues a long-delayed dream and discovers there is still plenty of life left to be lived on her own terms.

Denise Weinberg gives a terrific central performance, alongside Rodrigo Santoro, in a film that won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlin.

Beautifully shot, gently surreal, funny and ultimately very uplifting, The Blue Trail is a fitting way to finish our members’ free screenings for 2026.

đź“… Tuesday 20 October
🎟️ Free for Deckchair Cinema members
🍽️ Dinner by Three Mum’s Kitchen
🎟️ Bookings and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

🎹 The Piano Tuner is back!Following its sold-out opening screening, The Piano Tuner returns to Deckchair Cinema this Mon...
09/10/2026

🎹 The Piano Tuner is back!

Following its sold-out opening screening, The Piano Tuner returns to Deckchair Cinema this Monday (12 October).

Enjoy dinner by Saltwater @ Bundilla, then settle in for this local gem: From Tasmania to the Northern Territory, piano tuner Martin Tucker is on a mission to keep Australia’s pianos singing. Along the way, he meets colourful characters whose treasured instruments hold a lifetime of stories. Warm, funny and full of heart, The Piano Tuner celebrates music, human connection and one man’s determination to preserve a disappearing craft.

There were a lot of people who missed out the first time, so dont miss the second and final screening, make sure to book ahead!

Tickets: www.deckchaircinema.com

The Piano Tuner

🚀 Ryan Gosling wakes up alone in deep space, with no idea who he is or why he’s there.Project Hail Mary brings Andy Weir...
09/10/2026

🚀 Ryan Gosling wakes up alone in deep space, with no idea who he is or why he’s there.

Project Hail Mary brings Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi novel to the big screen, screening at Deckchair Cinema as a fundraiser for Darwin Show Jumping Club.

Gosling stars as Ryland Grace, a science teacher who wakes aboard a spacecraft light-years from home. His crewmates are gone, his memory is missing and the only thing he knows for certain is that something has gone very wrong.

As fragments of his past begin returning, Grace discovers the scale of the mission he has been given: solve a scientific mystery that threatens the future of life on Earth.

From Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the filmmakers behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Project Hail Mary combines big science-fiction ideas with humour, mystery, adventure and an unexpected friendship at the edge of space.

Also starring Sandra HĂĽller, Ken Leung and Milana Vayntrub, this is exactly the kind of ambitious sci-fi adventure that deserves to be seen on a cinema screen.

Come along for a night under the stars while helping raise funds for Darwin Show Jumping Club.

đź“… Sunday October 18
🍽️ Dinner from Three Mums Kitchen
🎟️ Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

Three Mum's Kitchen Project Hail Mary - Fundraiser for Darwin Show Jumping Club | Screening at Deckchair Cinema

06/10/2026

Deckie Manager James here, sharing a little stop motion obsession! 🎬

I grew up watching and rewatching Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, among many others, and I’m still completely captivated by this extraordinary art form.

There’s something magical about knowing that every tiny expression, every prop and every movement has been carefully planned, crafted and brought to life, one frame at a time.

We’ve got films from two giants of stop motion on the Deckchair screen this program.

Aardman, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and winners of four Oscars, return with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. Expect mischief, mayhem and plenty of laughs for the whole family!

Meanwhile, LAIKA, whose films have earned six Oscar nominations, including for Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, invite us into the world of Wildwood.

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
7pm Saturday 10 & Saturday 17 October
Rated G. A stop motion treat for the whole family!

Wildwood
7pm Saturday 24 & Friday 30 October
Classification pending - but probably not for very young kids!

Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

đź’ż A disc full of CIA files falls into the hands of two gym employees.Their first thought?Obviously, blackmail.This Sunda...
05/10/2026

đź’ż A disc full of CIA files falls into the hands of two gym employees.

Their first thought?

Obviously, blackmail.

This Sunday's fundraiser screening is the Coen brothers’ gloriously ridiculous spy comedy Burn After Reading. Bringing together Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton for 96 minutes of increasingly terrible decisions.

When gym employees Chad and Linda discover a mysterious disc containing what they believe is highly sensitive intelligence, they decide they’ve stumbled onto their fortune. Unfortunately, they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

What follows is a beautifully tangled mess of espionage, infidelity, paranoia, plastic surgery ambitions and government officials trying to work out what, exactly, is happening.

Brad Pitt is especially unforgettable as Chad, an aggressively enthusiastic personal trainer who may be one of the least convincing blackmailers in cinema history.

Join us for a very funny night under the stars, with the screening raising funds for Palmerston Game Fishing Club.

đź“… Sunday 11 October, gates 5.30pm, film 7pm
🍽️ Dinner by Yogi's Way
🎟️ Tickets and info: www.deckchaircinema.com

Yogi's Way

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