ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Series Mania Melbourne

The world's best festival of television is back in 2018 with a free series of events

19–22 Jul FREE

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

A look at Jean-Michel's life pre-fame, and how the city, the times, the people and the movements around him formed the artist he became

7 Jul – 2 Aug 2018 78 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Sara Driver: NYC

Celebrate one of the leading filmmakers to emerge from the vibrant New York City art scene of the 1980s

7 Jul - 2 Aug 2018 Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Modernism at the Movies

A celebration of mid-century modern architecture on the big screen

6–29 Jul Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+ people) $12

Heat and Dust

Shashi Kapoor, Julie Christie and Greta Scacchi star in Merchant Ivory's alluring epic

8-24 Jul 130 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Stalking Tarkovsky

Discover the legacy of Andrei Tarkovsky, one of cinema's greatest directors

From 10 May

When Pigs Fly

A weary jazz musician and a plucky barmaid are befriended by a pair of mischievous ghosts

23 – 31 Jul 2018 94 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

L'Eclisse

Alain Delon and Monica Vitti star in Michelangelo Antonioni's drama about a doomed relationship

3 Jun – 24 Jul 2018 126 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Groups $12

Permanent Vacation

In Jim Jarmusch's debut feature, a young drifter wanders the back streets of a broken Manhattan

25 – 26 Jul 2018 75 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Warning Shadows

A jealous nobleman and his flirtatious wife hold a dinner party for four single gentlemen and a traveling illusionist appears to perform a shadow puppet show to entertain and provoke the guests

25 July 2018 85 mins Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $26 - $290

Asphalt

Betty Amann stars as a luminous femme fatale in this gritty melodrama set in Weimar era Berlin

25 July 2018 94 mins Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $26 - $290

My Brilliant Career

A brand-new digital restoration of Gillian Armstrong’s award-winning adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic novel

26 – 29 Jul 2018 100 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12

Shame

Human relationships are tested by extraordinary outside forces in Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece

10 Jun – 27 Jul 103 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

The Desert Bride

Berlinale award winning actress Paulina Garcia stars in the debut feature from Argentinian directors Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato

27 Jul-7 Aug 78 mins Full $14 Concession $11 Senior $8 Member $7

Stranger Than Paradise

This Sara Driver-produced laconic comedy heralded Jim Jarmusch as a new voice in cinema

18 – 28 Jul 89 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Columbus

Set amid the mid-century architectural marvels of Indiana, Kagonada’s debut is as heartfelt as its settings are spectacular

8 – 28 Jul 2018 100 mins Full $18 Concession $14 ACMI Members $12 Seniors $8

Eero Saarinen

Cinematographer Eric Saarinen reconnects with his father's extraordinary modernist legacy

14 – 28 Jul 2018 70 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Visual Acoustics

Julius Shulman’s photos continue to define what many consider the epitome of mid-century modern architecture

7 – 29 Jul 2018 83 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

You Are Not I

A haunting, Lynchian dream-world where an asylum escapee turns the tables on her captors

14 – 29 Jul 2018 50 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Diary of a Country Priest

A young priest's faith is tested when he's rejected by the community in his first parish

30 Jun – 29 Jul 2018 115 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Sleepwalk

Magic realism comes to New York’s Chinatown in Sara Driver's dreamlike debut feature

15 – 30 Jul 2018 78 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

Alice in Wonderland

Disney's 1951 animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic 'Alice' stories

7 Apr – 6 Oct 2018 75 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

Melbourne International Film Festival

See another side of film

2 - 19 Aug 2018

Melbourne Writers Festival

For everyone who reads

24 Aug - 2 Sep 2018

Melbourne Cinémathèque

Australia's largest and longest-running film society celebrating rare and significant works of international cinema

Every Wednesday 7pm Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $26 - $290

Fashion on Film 2018

This Melbourne Fashion Week we celebrate three visionaries of fashion - from Broome, Australia and beyond!

1 to 9 Sep 2018 Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8. Save more with a 3 Session pass!

Matinees

Fine films for grown-up tastes

Family Films

Family friendly films from home and the globe, including kids' classics, animated masterpieces and insightful documentaries

Melbourne Filmoteca

Monthly screenings of the best in Latin American and Spanish film.

Feb - Dec 2018

Korean Film Festival Melbourne

An embodiment of 'Hallyuwood' and Korean film culture in a showcase of the country's most innovative cinematic feats

6 – 13 Sep 2018

Environmental Film Festival Australia

A change in direction

11 - 18 Oct 2018

Iranian Film Festival Australia

An annual celebration of Iranian cinema, one of the world’s most exhilarating national cinemas

25 – 29 Oct 2018 various times

Japanese Film Festival

Whether it’s slice of life drama or absurdist manga comedy, we’ve got you covered

22 Nov - 2 Dec 2018