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Multiple venues

Film sessions are held across two venues. Please check your session carefully before booking.

Cinema Nova — 380 Lygon Street, Carlton

• Tuesday 6 October, 10.30am — Calle Málaga (Morocco/Spain, 2025) Rated M | 116 minutes | Drama | In Spanish and Arabic with English subtitles
  Maria Ángeles, a spirited 79-year-old Spanish widow, has lived in her beloved Tangier apartment for forty years. When her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell it from under her, she fights back — and along the way unexpectedly rediscovers love and belonging. A warm, sun-drenched drama anchored by a magnificent performance from Carmen Maura. Winner of the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival.
   
• Wednesday 7 October, 10.30am — Rental Family (USA/Japan, 2025) Rated M | 110 minutes | ​​​​​Comedy | ​​​
  In present-day Tokyo, a down-on-his-luck American actor finds unexpected purpose when he takes a job with a Japanese 'rental family' agency, stepping into the lives of strangers as a stand-in father, son, or friend. As the lines between performance and reality blur, he discovers genuine connection in the most unlikely of places. A heartfelt, cross-cultural comedy-drama starring Brendan Fraser.
   
• Thursday 8 October, 10.30am — Supernova (UK, 2020) Rated M | 93 minutes | Drama | 
  Partners of twenty years, Sam and Tusker embark on a road trip across England in their old campervan — but beneath the journey lies an unspoken reckoning. Since Tusker's diagnosis with early-onset dementia, their time together has never felt more precious, or more fragile. As secrets surface and private plans unravel, their love for each other is tested like never before. Starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci
   
• Wednesday 14 October, 10.30am — Raise the Red Lantern (China, 1991) Rated PG | 125 minutes | Drama | In Mandarin with English subtitles
  When her father dies, Songlian is forced to abandon her studies and become the fourth wife of a wealthy man. Bound by rigid ancestral custom, the four wives compete for their husband's favour — signalled each night by a red lantern raised outside the chosen woman's door. A visually ravishing and quietly devastating portrait of power, confinement and survival. Starring Gong Li. Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
   
• Thursday 15 October, 10.30am — Thelma (USA, 2024) Rated PG | 97 minutes | Comedy
  When 93-year-old Thelma Post is scammed out of $10,000 by a caller posing as her grandson, she refuses to be a victim. Armed with grit and a motorised scooter, she sets off across Los Angeles to get her money back. A warm, funny action-comedy that celebrates older people with agency and humour. Starring June Squibb (Academy Award nominee) and the late Richard Roundtree in his final role.

Library at the Dock — 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands VIC 3008

• Friday 9 October, 1.30pm — Late Bloomers (USA, 2023) Rated M | 92 minutes | Comedy
  Louise, an aimless 28-year-old musician in New York, drunkenly breaks her hip and ends up in physical therapy alongside patients twice her age. An unlikely friendship with Antonina, a cantankerous elderly Polish woman who speaks no English, forces both of them to confront what it means to grow up — and grow old. A bittersweet intergenerational comedy-drama starring Karen Gillan.

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