Trade Secret (2160x1023)
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Trade Secret (2025) © Untitled Film Works

Presented with Docplay

Trade Secret

Big Screen Premiere

Abraham Joffe | Australia, UK | 2025 | Unclassified (15+)

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When

Tue 24 Feb 2026

Join us in the cinema for the Victorian premiere of the new documentary that shines a light on the existential threats to polar bears.

Trade Secret follows three unlikely allies on a mission to protect polar bears from international commercial trade. Filmed over six years across nine countries, the film exposes the sanctioned sale of hundreds of polar bears each year on the global market.

Taking audiences inside secret auction houses, closed-door political summits and hidden salesrooms, the film reveals a shocking reality: polar bears - the ultimate symbol of our climate crisis - are still being legally hunted and traded today.

Trade Secret will be available to stream on Docplay from Monday 23 February. Join us in the cinema for a very special screening.

Presented with

Format: DCP
Language: English, Norwegian, Inuktitut, Mandarin and Greenlandic with English subtitles
Source: Madman Entertainment
Courtesy: Madman Entertainment
Runtime: 98 mins

Event duration

98 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Viewers under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Tickets

This event is free for ACMI Members.

Members will be invited to book tickets (a maximum of 2 per member) from Friday 13 February.

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Schedule

7pm Welcome
7.12pm Film screening
8.50pm Event concludes

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