What's On at ACMI: Wednesday 23 to Tuesday 29 November 2016

ACMI Cinemas screen award-winning Australian film Ruin and host special Q&A sessions with film and industry representatives
Saturday 12 November to Saturday 3 December 2016
Q&A sessions: 19 & 26 November, and 3 December
acmi.net.au/australian-perspectives
ACMI Cinemas screen Ruin, a love story set in modern day Cambodia described as 'Breathtaking... elemental... a remarkably ambitious, poetic vision" by award-winning UK film blog Cinevue. During the season ACMI hosts three Q&A sessions, featuring Ruin Co-director Amiel Courtin-Wilson, and editors Luca Cappelli, Sally Blenheim and Simon Price, along with session presenters Nadia Tass from the Australian Directors Guild, Cindy Clarkson from the Australian Screen Editors guild, and more to be announced for the final session.

Ruin Q&A sessions

Saturday 19 November, 4pm

Presenter Nadia Tass from the Australian Directors Guild will interview Ruin Co-Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Saturday 26 November, 4pm

Presenter Cindy Clarkson from the Australian Screen Editors guild will interview the three Ruin editors Luca Cappelli, Sally Blenheim and Simon Price.
Saturday 3 December, 3:30pm

Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13, Members $10

Collisions, the first VR film to tell an Indigenous story, continues opens as a free exhibition
Until Sunday 15 January 2017
acmi.net.au/collisions
After opening as a co-presentation with ACMI and Melbourne Festival in October, Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition Collisions continues at ACMI until mid-January. The work of acclaimed filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth features in new exhibition Collisions, inviting audiences on an immersive VR journey to the land of Indigenous elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan. 
Tickets: FREE

ACMI's free, interactive Screen Worlds exhibition is open daily, and now features a new VR section
Open every day except Christmas Day, 10am – 5pm
acmi.net.au/screen-worlds
Screen Worlds is ACMI's free, permanent and interactive exhibition that tells the remarkable story of the moving image – a vibrant biography that explores its past, past present and future. This stunning exhibition will change the way audiences think about the most pervasive and powerful cultural forms of our time.
Tickets: FREE

Japanese Film Festival screens at ACMI Cinemas
Thursday 24 November to Sunday 4 December 2016
acmi.net.au/japanese-film-festival-2016
The Japanese Film Festival returns to ACMI Cinemas in 2016. From the pristine summit of Everest to the crime-ridden underbelly of Hokkaido, the Japanese Film Festival's Melbourne features new and classic cinema from a wide range of Japanese filmmakers. 
Tickets: Full $18.50. Concession $15.50. Member $14.50. Japan Foundation Member $13.