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May at Pivot is bursting with bold new stories. From powerful true tales to soul-stirring musicals, our screen is lighting up with films that move, inspire, and stay with you long after the credits roll.
October at Pivot travels from 1895 Paris to a 1950s Coney Island boardwalk, and a surprising amount of it is very funny. Colours of Time returns for an encore alongside Geelong Gallery’s Discovering the Impressionists After Hours, so the Paris on screen has the paintings to match. Australia’s own Rose Byrne is on Broadway in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, raising one toast too many to an old flame, while the Met opens its new season with Così fan tutte in an amusement park and Sandra Oh plays a novelist who refuses to tell polite lies in the National Theatre’s The Misanthrope. The St Kilda Film Festival brings thirteen of the year’s best Australian shorts with the bar open at interval, and John Wilson turns a Hallmark screenwriting workshop into a film about concrete, for three sessions only. Add a Q&A after Allowed to Birth and The Promise for Geelong Design Week, and there’s plenty to plan around. Every session is on sale now.
The Met Opera and National Theatre Live seasons are both locked in for 2026-27, ten broadcasts running from October through to next August. Mozart opens with four young lovers testing each other’s faithfulness on a 1950s Coney Island boardwalk, which is a far gentler proposition than Lise Davidsen’s Lady Macbeth, who talks her husband into murder and then can’t get her hands clean. Elsewhere there’s a tavern owner holding her own against a mining town full of men, and a knight who spends six hours searching for the Holy Grail, and a Christmas Eve in 1914 when soldiers climbed out of the trenches to sing carols with the enemy. From the National Theatre, Sandra Oh plays a novelist who refuses to lie and learns what that costs, while Josh O’Connor gives up a violinist’s future for a boxing ring, filmed at the Almeida with a live string quartet in the room. Session times for the whole season are on sale now.
The Melbourne International Film Festival is back, and this year, a slice of the program is screening right here in Geelong. From opening night with Olivia Colman and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd in Wicker, to a chicken’s-eye view of the world in Hen, a rockumentary on Perth legends Jebediah, and a courtroom exposé on the weaponisation of defamation law in Silenced, MIFF at The Pivotonian is a chance to catch some of the festival’s most talked-about titles without the trip into the city.
July is the month where the ones you missed come back around. We Are Not Powerless returns for an encore Q&A after selling out in June, and How to Talk Australians gets a second run for everyone who couldn’t get a seat the first time. There’s a filmmaker Q&A with the team behind Beyond Borders Patagonia, a panel discussion after Common Wealth, and Bub’s Sessions kicks off the month with The Christophers. Add Toy Story 5, Moana reimagined live action, and a Geelong Gallery member special for Colours of Time, and it’s shaping up to be one of our fullest months yet. Find your session and book below.
June at The Pivotonian has something for every kind of film lover. A darkly funny Aussie comedy with a filmmaker Q&A, Jack Johnson on the big screen, Helen Mirren as the Queen, Nicola Coughlan live from the National Theatre, a magical-realist Met Opera, and a Cannes Jury Prize winner. There are stories about grief and goshawks, refugees who built schools, and a couple whose imaginary neighbours started writing back. Plus Miranda Priestly, Toy Story 5, and Franz Kafka for good measure. It’s a big month. All session times are on sale now.