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If you have any questions about our current programme, please call us at 031-208011. Ticket office opens 1 h before the days first film. We speak english and can answer your questions. 

Prices

Regular film:   90 kr / 70 kr students and seniors. Matiné 70 kr
Met Opera:   290 / 260 kr
National Theatre:   200 kr / under 26 years 150 kr

Bio Roy

The historic cinema Bio Roy, near Götaplatsen (the cultural epicentre of Gothenburg) offers daily screenings of selected high-quality films from all over the world, with both matinee and evening shows. We have a café in the foyer, offering coffee, drinks, cakes and sweets, mostly organic and fair trade. However, this is a popcorn-free cinema.

Here you can also see stage performances broadcast live from renowned Swedish and international venues, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the National Theatre in London. Where there is an interval in the stage performance, the Bio Roy audience can mingle in the relaxed atmosphere of the specially created bar area at the front of the auditorium, where wine, snacks and coffee are served.

To find out what people are saying about the National Theatre Live experience, see this NTLive Facebook club: http://tiny.cc/dw9s7.

History

In its functionalist style from the most intense construction boom of sound cinema, Roy is one of the most elegant, modern and best-preserved cinemas from the period. It is also the only remaining cinema on the legendary string of cinemas along the Avenue in Gothenburg. Cinema Royal was inaugurated on 20th April 1940. The building was designed by architect Nils Olsson and the interior design was by Marcus M Lorentsen. The murals in the auditorium depicting the heavenly bodies were painted by the artist Hugo Öfverström. Inside the entrance there is a hand wrought brass railing that spells out RBio in elegant cursive letters.

In the 1994 renovation, much of the interior was saved, including the balcony, the convenient coat-rail inside the auditorium and the unique back row 'love seats'; in the summer of 2011, the murals in the auditorium were restored with the support of a conservation grant from the Västra Götaland County Administrative Board. The cinema was reopened in 2008 under the aegis of the national organisation of community centres, Folkets Hus och Parker. The cinema did not own the rights to the name Royal so it was renamed after the legendary Gothenburg-born filmmaker Roy Andersson, and the original neon sign 'Royal' was retained with the last two letters no longer illuminated. Thus, Bio Roy was born and Gothenburg's cinema heritage was saved.

The installation of an updated sound system made Roy the first cinema in Gothenburg to qualify for THX certification, a hallmark of sound and image quality. It was the first cinema in Gothenburg to be able to show films in digital 3D and to show live transmissions.

Folkets Hus och Parker

The national organisation Folkets Hus och Parker (FHP) has over 600 member associations all over Sweden. Examples of members are: Huskvarna People's Park, Liseberg, Bomhus People's House and Skansen. Of these associations, 220 operate some form of cinema. FHP is currently in the forefront of the transition to digital cinema equipment in Sweden. Since 2000, a number of pilot projects have been planned, designed and implemented. Among other things, FHP was the first digital cinema chain in Europe and was first in the world to show live transmissions from New York's Metropolitan Opera in HD quality. In 2008, three cinemas, one of which was Bio Roy, were re-equipped as Sweden's first digital 3D cinemas, premiering with the film of the U23D concert. www.fhp.nu

Sister Cinemas
Stockholm www.biorio.se
Malmö www.biografspegeln.se
Helsingborg www.biorodakvarn.se