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ACMI presents

Focus On

Film Season

When

2026

ACMI's Focus seasons are our ongoing program offering audience a deep-dive into filmmakers that inspire us, movements that shake us, genres that consume us and subjects that obsess us.

Past instalments have explored the vital storytelling of Lucrecia Martel, Andrea Arnold and Jane Campion; the distinctive voices of Miranda July, Wong Kar-wai, and Greta Gerwig; and urgent call-to-action of films by Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, Ousmane Sembène and Ken Loach.

Bringing together classic titles, rarely screened works and contemporary favourites, ACMI's Focus Seasons invite audiences to revisit influential figures, discover new ones and engage deeply with the art and history of film.

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Where

ACMI Cinemas, Level 2
Fed Square

How to get there

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