Cinema Detroit

Cinema Detroit is metro Detroit’s only truly independent movie theater, delivering an eclectic and progressive mix of commercial, arthouse, indie, cult, genre, and classic movies. Established in 2013, it is the only first-run 7-day-a-week theater in Greater Downtown. However, Cinema Detroit is not just a movie theater. Located at 4126 Third Street – the former Weber Furniture Store – it occupies a notable building in a historic district, adaptively reusing the postindustrial city to create a unique cultural hub around the moving image. This location houses two auditoria seating 125 and 20 people, respectively, and a large lobby and concession counter for front-of-house and events activities. It is a community-based, non-profit cinema that exists to benefit people and the arts in and around metro Detroit. It programs films and related events as catalysts of positive social change. It promotes media literacy, educating diverse audiences and young audiences. It provides a community gathering place for watching films of particular relevance to Detroiters, and for discussion of the issues they explore – especially identity, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Cinema Detroit promotes the work of under-represented filmmakers - often Detroit-based, and often women and people of color. They all have important stories to tell in independent short films, features, and documentaries that would never see exhibition elsewhere.