SCREENINGS

Celebrate the power of documentary storytelling on the big screen with the Documented screening program, co-presented with ACMI.

All screenings are ticketed ($14 for AIDC delegates), except for Hold True: Short Films Curated by POV, which is free but requires a ticket. All bookings can be made through the ACMI website.

The Documented screening program is made possible with the support of VicScreen.

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DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Deepfaking Sam Altman

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DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Deepfaking Sam Altman

Nominated for the 2025 SXSW Audience Award, director Adam Bhala Lough (Telemarketers, HBO) sets out to understand the AI boom, but when he can't get an interview with OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Adam decides to create a deepfake of Altman to interview instead.

(Public screening, ticketed)

DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Hold True: Short Films curated by POV

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DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Hold True: Short Films curated by POV

A selection of award-winning short documentaries by independent filmmakers, curated by POV for ACMI and AIDC. These films traverse documentary form and topic, offering perspectives that animate, document, capture and illuminate their participants.

(Free public screening, ticketed)

DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Cutting Through Rocks

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DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: Cutting Through Rocks

Join us for a special screening of 2026 Academy Award®-nominee Cutting Through Rocks, an eye-opening and moving portrait of Sara Shahverdi - the motorbike riding, first elected councilwoman in her Iranian village - and an unforgettable documentary cinema experience.

(Public screening, ticketed)

DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

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DOCUMENTED SCREENING PROGRAM: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2025 World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, join us for a special screening of Oscar®-winner Mstyslav Chernov's follow up to 20 Days in Mariupol, this time with Chernov unflinchingly following Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches in 2000 Meters to Andriivka.

(Public screening, ticketed)