Born at the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes and co-created with Cine Group, the Cinemas Club comes to AFM26 with a program built for theater owners, programmers and exhibition leaders. 

From Wednesday, November 11 to Saturday, November 14, The AFM House hosts two Cinemas Club panels every day, with 8 sessions and 20+ speakers from exhibition, distribution, technology and data. 

Topics include the new global screen economy (box office, windows and the merger), exhibitors becoming distributors, anime, concerts and event cinema, audience communities, the comeback of analogue film and repertory, the new IRIS fund for arthouse, and the non-generative AI that is already helping cinemas program and sell smarter. 

Confirmed speakers include executives from IFTA, Art House Convergence, Vue Lumière, Alamo Drafthouse, Crunchyroll, Trafalgar Releasing, Paramount, IMAX, Kodak, and CICAE. 

Sponsored by: IMERSA
Media Partner: Boxoffice Company

On Thursday, November 12, the Cinemas Club invites all theater owners, directors, programmers who have an AFM badge to a morning behind the scenes of an iconic LA movie theater and a legendary Hollywood studio, leaving the Fairmont Century Plaza by minibus at 8:15 AM and back in time for the afternoon panels (seats are limited, reserve yours here: https://tally.so/r/xVXRpo).

Don’t have your badge yet? All theater owners, directors, and programmers get a free 4-day badge to AFM. Request your free badge here: https://tally.so/r/Gx8PEe