Arsenal

About this cinema

Founded in 1963 as Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Arsenal opened its first cinema in 1970 in a 1912 building on Welserstraße, moved to the Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz in 2000, and relocated again in May 2026 to the West Hall of Wedding's former crematorium, now the silent green Kulturquartier, a listed building. The single hall seats 180.

Programming draws on Arsenal's own archive of around 10,000 titles, mixing retrospectives, experimental work and contemporary international cinema, and the cinema has hosted the Berlinale Forum since 1971. Films screen in their original version wherever possible, and a small drinks and snack bar sits just behind the foyer.

Features & access

• Bar on site
• Listed building

• Step-free entrance: Yes
• Accessible WC: Yes
• Wheelchair spaces: Yes (Two spaces)

Collected automatically from the cinema's website.

Upcoming Showtimes

Onna no sono

• Tue 13 Oct, 19:00, OmeU

Kawaita hana

• Wed 14 Oct, 20:00, OmU

The Burning Crucible

• Thu 15 Oct, 19:00

West Indies, les Nègres marrons de la liberté

• Fri 16 Oct, 16:00, OmU

Ototo

• Fri 16 Oct, 19:00, OmeU

Yoro no tsuzumi

• Fri 16 Oct, 21:30, OmeU

Paddington in Peru

• Sat 17 Oct, 14:00, dF

Blade Runner

• Sat 17 Oct, 16:30, OmU

Kaza-hana

• Sat 17 Oct, 19:00, OmeU

Naniwa no koi no monogatari

• Sat 17 Oct, 21:00, OmeU

The Red Balloon

• Sun 18 Oct, 14:30

Ningen no joken II

• Sun 18 Oct, 16:00, OmeU

Higanbana

• Sun 18 Oct, 20:00, OmeU

Zero no shoten

• Mon 19 Oct, 20:00, OmeU