Dlaczego warto chodzić do kina?

Let’s establish a few facts: everyone can watch movies however they like, and it’s nobody else’s business. On a tricked-out home cinema setup, on a laptop in bed, on a projector throwing the image onto the ceiling. Films have a home, and that home is your head. How they get there is just the journey. But sometimes it’s precisely the journey that matters, right?

Watching movies at home has plenty of advantages. You can pick any hour, any position, and – if you like – comment loudly on what’s happening on screen. If your stomach growls, you simply pause the screening and make yourself a sandwich. If you feel like switching films after the intro, nobody’s stopping you. After all, you’ve got Cinobo’s vast catalogue to choose from.

So why leave the house at all? To go to the movies. It would be a shame not to take advantage of the fact that, as part of your subscription, you get Cinobo Pass from us – free cinema tickets.

Need more reasons? No problem.

To open yourself up to a different choice.

At home, it’s easy to fall into the trap of infinite choice and get overwhelmed. You know the situation: you’re scrolling through titles, forty minutes go by, and you still don’t know what to watch.

Cinobo Pass is a pretext for handing over control and choosing to be surprised. The decision of “what to see” has already been made. We’re the ones choosing the titles you can watch for free in cinemas.

We bet on films that can awaken your curiosity – often not the most obvious choices of the season. We want to help you discover something that might be new to you.

So – you don’t have to choose, and the ticket’s on us. All that’s left is to leave the house. Which is exactly the point, because you also go to the cinema…

…to leave the house.

Simply because sometimes we need a pretext to do that. And going to the cinema is, after all, a whole ritual: the programme, the smell of the cinema, picking the right seat in the room, sometimes a walk after the screening and a conversation that lasts longer than the film itself.

A film watched at home is part of an evening; a trip to the cinema is an event. Going to the cinema is like going, as my mum puts it, visiting someone.

Because space matters.

Exactly: when we go to the cinema, we go as guests. We’re not the hosts, we don’t have to prepare anything, the way we do for home screenings. We can simply arrive and watch.

A bigger screen, proper sound, other people, no distractions: I don’t know about you, but that helps me a lot to immerse myself in the picture up to my ears.

Or maybe, just to hand over the remote.

When people emphasize the convenience of watching films at home, they often frame having full control over the screening as an advantage. And sure, we can always pause, rewind, switch the film. And while it’s playing – tidy up, answer a message, do the shopping.

Framing it this way diminishes what can happen when, for the duration of a screening, we hand that control over. The cinema, through the very atmosphere of the place, subtly demands greater focus. By being in the cinema hall, nothing else is competing for our attention. You can’t answer your phone, because you’re at the cinema.

It’s a simple, seemingly small thing. But fundamentally, it’s crucial.

Small cinemas for big stories.

Small cinemas have something special about them. Something like an emotional patina, as if the rapture experienced within them leaves behind some indefinable trace.

Today, art-house cinemas from all across Poland partner with us. People with passion work in them, their buildings have their own histories, and they’ve witnessed a whole range of emotions. I think of them, and it brings to mind a Gałczyński poem from 1947. Even back then, it was clear that after a screening like that:

You walk out dazed and hazy,
clouded over, cinema-crazy,
through eternal outskirts
you wander, thinking it’s true:
the best are these small cinemas,
where everything slips from view.

(Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, excerpt from the poem “Little Cinemas,” first published in: “Przekrój,” 1947, no. 99.)

Thank you: Kino Pałacowe in Poznań, the National Center for Film Culture in Łódź, the Lower Silesian Film Center in Wrocław, Kino Mikro in Kraków, Kino Kameralne in Gdańsk, Kino Elektronik and Kinoteka in Warsaw, Kino Meduza in Opole, Kino Pionier in Szczecin, Kino Kosmos in Katowice.

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