Explore a jam-packed season of films to escape the heat this summer at ACMI.
Celebrate a year of cinema with the Best 22 of 2022, bask under the moonlight in Fed Square with Not-So-Silent Cinema and learn emotional intelligence from cats, robots and aliens in Kids’ Flicks with Feelings.
The rich film program at ACMI offers in-person screenings in state-of-the-art cinemas, as well as a selection of titles and programs via the online streaming platform Cinema 3.
Explore ACMI’s programming listings below. Images are available to download here. For more information visit acmi.net.au
Best 22 of 2022
1 December 2022 – 29 January 2023, ACMI Cinemas
Full $18, Concession $14, Member $12
After the anni horribiles that were 2020 and 2021, 2022 has been a big return to form for cinema. To celebrate ACMI’s screening the best films of 2022, spanning features, documentary and animation from Australia and around the world. Program highlights include Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (2022), Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021) and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022).
| Days of Summer 17 December 2022 – 14 February 2023, ACMI Cinemas Full $18, Concession $14, Member $12 |
From sun-dappled picnics to summer solstices to surf, cool off in our cinemas as ACMI celebrates the hottest season of the year on screen. Program highlights include Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989), Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980) and Peter Weir’s Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
| Kids’ Flicks with Feelings 19 December 2022 – 23 January 2023, ACMI Cinemas Full $9, Members $7 |
Keep the kids entertained and engaged this summer with a selection of family films that make them think and feel. Take the lessons learned from each film home after each screening with activities and talking points emailed to parents/guardians to help kids exercise their emotional intelligence. Program highlights include Komaneko: The Curious Cat (2009), Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and a selection of episodes from Astro Boy (1980).
How I See It – Film Program
18 January – 15 February 2023, ACMI Cinemas
Free, bookings required
A celebration of films that exist in-between, that question the notions of place and national identity. These films reflect on the historical representations of First Nations peoples and communities surviving colonialism. Program highlights include Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973), Khavn De la Cruz’s Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (2017) and Karrabing Film Collective’s Night Time Go (2017). Curated by Jenna Rain Warwick (Luritja) to coincide with the exhibition How I See It: Blak Art and Film.
| Matinees & Soirees Ongoing, ACMI Cinemas Full $9, Member $7 |
ACMI’s year-round program Matinees & Soirees features an eclectic line-up of character-driven narrative dramas and comedies, fascinating documentaries, classics and digital restorations. Highlights include a 2022 reissue of Cabaret (1972), Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember (1957) and the Australian flick Little Tornadoes (2022).
EVENT SCREENINGS
| Thavary Meas Bong 26 November 2022, ACMI Cinemas Full $10, Concession $8, Members free ACMI in partnership with Bophana Center presents the restoration of Cambodian film Thavary Meas Bong (1969). Presented with a short film made by emerging Bophana filmmaker Minea Heng and introduced by Sopheap Chea, Executive Director, Bophana Center. |
Not-So-Silent Cinema
2 – 4 December, Fed Square stage and digital facade
Free
Pull up a deckchair and join Fed Square and ACMI as they celebrate the early days of cinema with this free program of silent films paired with newly composed and restaged live scores. The program features silent shorts – Cops (1922) and La voyage dans la lune (1902) – with a live score by Phillip Johnston; Vampyr (1932), featuring a live score by Chiara Kickdrum; and A Page of Madness (1926) with a live score by Marcus Whale and Jacques Emery.
