Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Around 1,100 different film titles cross the screens here every year - a number no ordinary cinema comes close to. Cinemateket, the Danish Film Institute's cinematheque in the Filmhuset at Gothersgade 55, is to film what the library is to books: a place where film history is kept alive on the big screen for researchers, filmmakers and the public, programming roughly 40 screenings a week of classics, restorations, retrospectives and festival titles that would otherwise never reach a Danish screen. The institution descends from the Danish Film Museum, founded on 11 November 1941 and one of the world's oldest film archives. In the mid-1990s the museum, the Film Institute and the National Film Board merged and moved into the converted Gutenberghus printing house on Gothersgade; the building opened to the public in autumn 1996 and was formally inaugurated as Filmhuset in April 1997. Three auditoriums are named for Danish film royalty: Bio Carl (about 180 seats) after director Carl Th. Dreyer, Bio Asta (about 140) after silent-era superstar Asta Nielsen, and the small Bio Benjamin (about 42) after director Benjamin Christensen, used among other things for festival screenings. The house also holds a library and videotheque with tens of thousands of titles, the FILM-X interactive studio for children, exhibitions, a shop and a restaurant - and it serves as a hub venue for Copenhagen's film festivals, from CPH:DOX to CPH PIX. Visitor numbers regularly top 100,000 a year, remarkable among the world's cinematheques. The address sits opposite Kongens Have park, a short walk from Norreport and Kongens Nytorv. The house wears its cinephilia in the details: the restaurant was christened Sult ("Hunger") after Henning Carlsen's 1966 film, a bar named for Asta Nielsen was fitted out in the basement, and the projection booths can run essentially every format in film history. Open-air summer screenings have periodically extended the programme beyond the three auditoriums.