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• From: Sunday, 30 November 2025

  Muriel's Wedding - 30th Anniversary Screening (M)

  It's been 30 years since Muriel Heslop walked down the aisle, so grab your best friend, your worst dress, and join us to celebrate one of Australia’s most cherished classics, on PJ Hogan's birthday! Resident theatre organist Wendy Hambly, will be playing your favourite Abba tunes before the show so remember to arrive early (12.30)… because you’re terrible if you miss it!

• From: Thursday, 4 December 2025

  Happyend (M)

  Balancing sharp social satire with tender adolescent drama, Happyend is a crisp and heartfelt story that quietly captures the enormous emotional stakes of youth on the cusp of adulthood. Best friends are about to graduate high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life. One night, they prank their principal before graduation, leading to school surveillance installation.

• From: Thursday, 4 December 2025

  The Doors: When You're Strange (CTC)

  The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of America’s most influential rock bands. With rare footage shot from their formation in 1965 to Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, When You’re Strange, Tom DiCillo’s GRAMMY® Award-Winning film narrated by Johnny Depp, follows the band through their career, providing insight into the revolutionary impact of their music.

• From: Thursday, 4 December 2025

  Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (M)

  An intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza, told through a series of video calls between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona. Now a poignant memorial, the film honours Fatma and her family, tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 16, the day after it was announced the film was to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

• From: Monday, 8 December 2025

  Wisdom of Happiness - Fundraiser Screening (Exempt)

  A fundraising effort by Australians for Tibetan Library to support the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and facilitate a 2026 Australian visit by its director, Geshe Lhakdor. Wisdom of Happiness is a deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly 90 years old, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century's challenges. The film captures the Dalai Lama speaking directly to viewers, creating a sense of a private audience, and shares his timeless wisdom on achieving inner peace and happiness for everyone. Join us afterwards for Q&A and further information about the library and Geshe Lhakdor’s visit.

   

  A fundraising effort by Australians for Tibetan Library to support the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and facilitate a 2026 Australian visit by its director, Geshe Lhakdor.

• From: Saturday, 13 December 2025

  Met Opera: Arabella (Exempt)

  Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that is as beautiful as one could hope (The New York Times).

• From: Saturday, 13 December 2025

  Bunny - Q&A Screening (MA 15+)

  Set in the aftermath of a climate-collapsed Australia, Bunny follows a young woman as she roams the ruins of a world she never got to grow up in. What begins as a survival story becomes a meditation on unapologetic self-discovery and feminine brutality as supplies grow scarce and food even scarcer. This isn't the end of the world. It's what happens after. Join us afterward for a Q&A with the cast and crew of the film!

• From: Saturday, 13 December 2025

  Pride and Prejudice (G)

  Celebrate with us the 250th anniversary of Jane Austin's birth with Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen!

• From: Friday, 26 December 2025

  Rental Family (M)

  Set against modern-day Tokyo, Rental Family follows an American actor who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality. Confronting the moral complexities of his work, he rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the quiet beauty of human connection.

• From: Friday, 26 December 2025

  The Golden Spurtle (CTC)

  Each year, the sleepy Scottish village of Carrbridge bursts to life for the World Porridge Championships. Locals and eccentric international contestants - including Lisa, a reigning champ, Toby, a taco chef from Australia, and seven-time finalist, Nick - go head-to-head in a spirited oat-off. With warmth and humour, director Constantine Costi captures the charm and spunk of this Highlands competition with warmth, respect, and lashings of humour.

• From: Thursday, 1 January 2026

  Song Sung Blue (CTC)

  Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

• From: Thursday, 1 January 2026

  The Choral (CTC)

  Propelled by Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes, this inspiring drama from veteran director Nicholas Hytner (The Lady in the Van) depicts a British choir director’s efforts to assemble an ensemble during the darkest days of the First World War.

• From: Thursday, 15 January 2026

  My Brother's Band (M)

  The resounding audience favourite of the 2025 Alliance Française French Film Festival, writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film My Brother's Band follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music.

• From: Thursday, 15 January 2026

  Hamnet (CTC)

  From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet

• From: Saturday, 17 January 2026

  Met Opera: Andrea Chénier (Exempt)

  Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution.

• From: Thursday, 22 January 2026

  Is This Thing On? (CTC)

  As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex seeks new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family — forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

• From: Thursday, 29 January 2026

  Blue Moon (CTC)

  On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

• From: Thursday, 29 January 2026

  Urchin (CTC)

  A haunting, compassionate odyssey of survival, redemption, and the fragile architecture of hope.

• From: Thursday, 5 February 2026

  Anemone (CTC)

  Family bonds between fathers, sons, and brothers are explored as complex relationships unfold through personal journeys and generational conflicts.

• From: Saturday, 7 February 2026

  Met Opera: I Puritani (Exempt)

  For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. The first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years —a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide.

• From: Thursday, 12 February 2026

  Wuthering Heights (CTC)

  A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

• From: Saturday, 28 February 2026

  NTL: Hamlet (Exempt)

  Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

• From: Saturday, 11 April 2026

  Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde (Exempt)

  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.

• From: Saturday, 23 May 2026

  Met Opera: Eugene Onegin (Exempt)

  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.

• From: Saturday, 20 June 2026

  Met Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (Exempt)

  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.