What's on

Focus on Lynne Ramsay

Thu 1 Oct – Mon 5 Oct 2026

Online

Irish Film Festival Australia 2026

View online

Thu 8 Oct – Sun 15 Nov 2026

Kids' Flicks with Feelings

Ongoing

Matinees

Fridays 1.30pm, Saturdays 11am & Sundays 11am

Focus on Frederick Wiseman

Sat 3 Oct – Sat 28 Nov 2026

Free

Seniors Film Festival 2026

Mon 5th Oct - Sun 11th Oct

Games Week Film Program

Mon 5 Oct – Sat 10 Oct 2026

Focus on Cristian Mungiu

Thu 8 Oct – Tue 3 Nov 2026

Spotlight on Anime Heroines

Fri 9 Oct – Mon 12 Oct 2026

MIFF Encores at ACMI 2026

Fri 9 Oct – Sun 11 Oct 2026

Once Upon A Time In 華語 Cinema

Monthly, Sundays at 2pm

1 Feb – 8 Nov 2026

Free

First Nations Film Club

Ongoing

Klara and the Sun

6.30pm

Wed 21 Oct 2026

Free

Korea Story Festival 2026

10.45am

Sat 24 Oct 2026

Extractivism & Ancestry: Short films by Riar Rizaldi

7pm

Mon 26 Oct 2026

Monisme

7pm

Tue 27 Oct 2026

New Voices in Australian Cinema

Ongoing

Cinema 3

Online experience

Rent films on demand 24/7

Melbourne Cinémathèque

Wednesdays from 7pm

ART+FILM

Ongoing

Free

The Story of the Moving Image

10am – 5pm

Ongoing

Free

Games Lab Presented by Big Ant Studios

10am – 5pm

Ongoing

Free

Making Memoir of a Snail

10am – 5pm

Thu 8 Aug 2024 – Sun 1 Nov 2026

Free Victorian Premiere

Feng Mengbo: Long March Restart 冯梦波: 长征 重启

10am – 5pm

19 Aug 2026 – 31 Jan 2027

Free World Premiere

Play On

10am – 5pm

Tue 29 Sep 2026 – Sun 31 Jan 2027

Reverb: This is a journey into sound

Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays

Fri 22 May – Sun 4 Oct 2026

Free

ACMI Relaxed Visits

9–10.30am

29 Aug, 19 Sep, 24 Oct & 21 Nov 2026

World Premiere

Lifelike

10am – 5pm

Fri 20 Nov 2026 – Sun 18 Apr 2027

Free

Gallery 5

Online experience

Bluey world-first exhibition

Mid 2027

Booking fast Free

ACMI Experimental Forum

Wed 30 Sep – Wed 18 Nov 2026

Melbourne International Games Week 2026

Fri 2 Oct – Sun 11 Oct 2026

Free

Women, Trans, and Gender Diverse Gamers Club

Online: monthly on 2nd Wednesday, 6–7pm

In-person: quarterly on Saturdays, 1–2.30pm

Free UR Head

Thu 15 Oct – Sat 17 Oct 2026

Free

ACMI Preschoolers

10.30am

3rd or 4th Friday of the month

Free

ACMI Table Reads

6-8pm

Mon 27 Jul – Mon 16 Nov 2026

Free

Riar Rizaldi Workshop

1-5pm

Sat 24 Oct – Sun 25 Oct 2026

Focus on the Taiwan New Wave

Sun 25 Oct – Tue 24 Nov 2026

Free

ACMI Crew Night

Thu 29 Oct & Thu 31 Dec 2026

Booking fast Free

Artist Led Auslan Tour: Sam Martin

1.30pm

14 Nov 2026

Puppet Master: ​ In Conversation With Dave Barclay​

7pm

18 Nov 2026

Free

ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab

12 Sep & 28 Nov 2026

Free

ACMI Works-In-Progress Night

6-8pm

Wed 16 September