When
Sat 27 Dec 2025 – Wed 21 Jan 2026
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Join us to celebrate the best films of the year with a selection spanning excellence in acting, writing, design, cinematography and direction.
At the end of the year, we can guarantee that the top 10 highest grossing films at the Australian box office in 2025 will be dominated by family films. In a way, this is reassuring. It shows that, while we’re told that cinema audiences are getting older, the top-grossing films are powered by young minds (and their grown-up chaperones) going to the flicks en masse.
ACMI’s Best of 2025 program is a very different list. It’s a list that celebrates the best films based on all the creative minds that collaborate to make films. We’ve considered the breathtaking costume design of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein alongside the enormous bravery of Mohammad Rasoulof’s screenplay for The Seed of the Sacred Fig. We considered how Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors kept us on the edge of our seats without any typical thriller genre set pieces. And similarly, how Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow moved us to tears without uttering a word.
There is power in big blockbusters and the collective water-cooler conversations they start, but with this program we’re celebrating the smaller conversations over quiet coffees, the word-of-mouth recommendations and the best films that made up 2025.
– Reece Goodwin, Senior Programmer (Film & Screen Industry)
Multi-Session Passes
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Full $48, Concession $42, Member $39
Full $90, Concession $78, Member $72
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