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A film house is an institution that promotes the art form of film and regional film culture . There are also production companies that use the name FILMHAUS or Filmhaus .
The first film houses were founded with the invention of film around the turn of the century and differed from today's form in that they were not yet institutions in the broadest sense, but mostly cafés or restaurants with a screen. The demarcation from classic cinema had not yet been completed. Over time, the film houses, similar to the art houses , increasingly aligned themselves with the art direction of film. Today's film houses are generally designed as meeting places for professional and semi-professional filmmakers and / or other film enthusiasts with an attached cinema and often do a teaching job by offering educational measures. Film houses usually differ from film institutes in that they are not oriented towards film studies. Film houses are mostly financially supported by state subsidies, private donations and membership fees, if an association exists. At the end of the 1970s, five film houses were founded in North Rhine-Westphalia at the instigation of the state government in Düsseldorf, Essen, Bielefeld, Münster and Cologne, four of which (all except the one in Essen) still exist today.
Among the production companies with the name FILMHAUS is v. a. the company (GmbH) founded in 1979 in Munich by commercial filmmaker Hans-Joachim Berndt. The FILMHAUS brand was registered as a word and image and is still valid throughout Europe. Filmhaus GmbH has been located at Torstrasse 180 / Kleine Hamburger Strasse 2 in Berlin-Mitte since 2011. Films of all kinds (games, documentaries, corporate, advertising) are still being shot and produced. The FILMHAUS cafe in the house has also made it a meeting place for those interested in film. Lectures, demonstrations and discussion evenings take place here.