CineStar Frankfurt (Oder)

Große Scharrnstraße 68-71, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)

In Frankfurt an der Oder, the German-Polish border city where the river separates two nations and two cultures meet daily, CineStar brings first-run cinema to a town whose identity is defined by its position at Europe's crossroads. The Große Scharrnstraße address places the cinema in the historic centre, within sight of the Oder and the Polish city of Slubice on its far bank. Frankfurt (Oder) is a university town — home to the Europa-Universität Viadrina, one of Germany's most internationally oriented institutions — and its student population lends the city a cosmopolitan undertone that belies its modest size. The cinema serves both the local community and visitors from across the border, a genuinely transnational audience. Its screens are an important cultural amenity in a region where such venues are not taken for granted. To watch a film here is to be reminded that borders are more porous than they appear on maps.