Filmladen Kassel

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The Filmladen emerged from a student film initiative that founded the non-profit organization Filmladen Kassel e.V. in 1980. This happened at a time when the city of Kassel was the first German city to close its municipal cinema - the "filmforum" in the adult education center.

The main task of the association is still to run the cinema in Goethestraße. This work is linked to the idea of a cultural free space in which film plays an important role as a form of critical and artistic expression. With this profile, the Filmladen has not only become an institution in Kassel, but has also achieved national and international significance. In terms of cinema type, the Filmladen occupies a position between a privately operated arthouse cinema and a municipal cinema. It shares the former's financing, which is based on its own income, and the latter's film-cultural self-image.

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