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What is changing in German cinemas: houses opening and closing, new halls and formats, and films worth seeing in a particular room. Every item names its sources.

10 August 2026·2 min read
Where to see Die Odyssee at full size, and where you cannot
Seven formats, one 172-minute cut. The version Christopher Nolan shot for does not play anywhere in Germany, and the nearest cinema that can show it is in Prague.
9 August 2026·2 min read
The ASTOR Film Lounge on Kurfürstendamm is dark for 18 months
Berlin's first premium cinema stopped screening at the end of May. The building needs the work, not the auditorium, which stays exactly as it is.
8 August 2026·1 min read
Terminator 2 returns to German cinemas on 27 August
Studiocanal's 4K restoration and 3D conversion, out for the film's 35th anniversary. Germany gets it two days before most of the world.

Where to see Die Odyssee at full size, and where you cannot

The ASTOR Film Lounge on Kurfürstendamm is dark for 18 months

Terminator 2 returns to German cinemas on 27 August