Open air cinema in Berlin: 2 still open, ends 2 October
Two open air cinemas in Berlin still run after 16 September 2026 — €9 and €10 — and the last night is 2 October. Every closing date checked with the operator.
Open air cinema in Berlin is nearly over for 2026: two screens are still running after 16 September — Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft in Friedrichshain at €9.00, to 2 October, and the Strandbad Wendenschloss in Köpenick at €10.00, to 30 September.
The short version
- Two screens are left. Neue Zukunft runs films to 1 October and closes with a Herbstfest on 2 October. Wendenschloss has three Wednesdays left and ends on 30 September.
- A third closes tonight. The courtyard screen at Haus Schwarzenberg shows Perfect Days at 20:00 on 16 September and that is its last open air night of the year.
- The big park cinemas have already gone. Kreuzberg finished on 6 September, Rehberge on 12 September, Hasenheide and Friedrichshain on 13 September.
- Berlin’s own city portal has three of these closing dates wrong. We checked every one against the cinema instead, and say below where the two disagree.
- The two still open charge €9.00 and €10.00; tonight’s third is €14.00 — and three of the best-known cinemas in the city publish no standard ticket price on their websites.
How we checked
Every date and price below was read on 16 September 2026 from the cinema’s own website — its programme page, its prices page, and where the programme is published as a PDF flyer or a calendar feed, from those too. We did not take dates from listings sites, and that turned out to matter.
Berlin.de, the city’s official portal, carries a Freiluftkino index. On three closing dates it does not match the cinema. It gives the Strandbad Wendenschloss as finishing on 23 September; the Strandbad’s own event page has a screening on 30 September. It gives Hasenheide as finishing on 12 September and Rehberge on 13 September; both cinemas print the opposite on their own sites. Where the two disagree, we followed the cinema.
Several cinemas publish nothing useful once their season ends — the Freilichtbühne am Weißensee deletes its past programme by policy, and the Yorck Kinogruppe marks the Sommerkino Kulturforum finished in one sentence without ever printing a date or a price. Where we could not confirm a closing date on the operator’s site, the table says so rather than guessing.
Contents
- Every Berlin open air screen, and the night it closed
- Neue Zukunft: the longest run left, and the cheapest ticket
- Wendenschloss: the last screen on the water
- Haus Schwarzenberg: every film in English, and it ends tonight
- What closed, and when
- The three cinemas that never publish a price
- What is not on in late September
- The 2027 dates already published
- How we chose these
- Frequently asked questions
Every Berlin open air screen, and the night it closed
Thirteen screens, in the order they finish. The top three are the only ones still showing films on 16 September 2026.
| Cinema (district) | Last night 2026 | Adult | Reduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft (Friedrichshain) | 2 October | €9.00 | €7.00 | Open |
| Strandbad Wendenschloss (Köpenick) | 30 September | €10.00 | €8.00 | Open |
| Freiluftkino Mitte, Haus Schwarzenberg (Mitte) | 16 September | €14.00 | €12.00 | Closes tonight |
| Freiluftkino im Rosengarten (Mitte) | 15 September | Not published | Not published | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Hasenheide (Neukölln) | 13 September | €12.00 | €11.00 | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Friedrichshain (Friedrichshain) | 13 September | Not published | Not published | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Rehberge (Wedding) | 12 September | Not published | Not published | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Kreuzberg (Kreuzberg) | 6 September | Not published | €5.00 with BN or VBB card | Closed |
| Open Air-Kino Kulturfabrik (Moabit) | Not published | From €7.00 | Not published | Closed |
| Freilichtbühne am Weißensee (Weißensee) | Not published | €8.50 | €6.50 | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Friedrichshagen (Köpenick) | Not published | €9.00 | €7.00 | Closed |
| Open Air-Kino Spandau (Spandau) | Not published | €11.00 | €9.50 | Closed |
| Freiluftkino Insel @ Atelier Gardens (Tempelhof) | Not published | Not published | Not published | Closed |
Two people at Neue Zukunft pay €18.00. Two at Wendenschloss pay €20.00. Two at Haus Schwarzenberg, tonight only, pay €28.00 — and that is the one where every film is in English or carries English subtitles, which explains the gap.
Two screens and a fortnight is not much of a window. If you have been meaning to do this all summer, the deciding factor is usually not the film — it is whether anyone else is free on a Wednesday. On MITRA you post a place and a time, and you decide who joins. Get MITRA on Google Play · Download on the App Store
Neue Zukunft: the longest run left, and the cheapest ticket
Alt-Stralau 68, on the spit of land between Ostkreuz and Treptower Park, next to Renate and opposite Club Ost. Three hundred seats, a bar, and a screen at the end of a courtyard by the Spree. At €9.00 full and €7.00 reduced it is the cheapest paid screen still running, and it lasts longest: films to 1 October, then a Herbstfest on 2 October that closes the season.
Two things worth knowing. It screens in the rain — the cinema says so plainly, keeps a small stock of umbrellas and blankets, and has a covered corner with about twenty seats. In late September that is the difference between a plan and a maybe.
Second, reduced tickets cannot be reserved. They are sold at the box office only, either at Kino Zukunft during the day — from 17:30 on weekdays, from 15:30 at weekends — or at the cinema itself, which opens half an hour before the film. Full-price tickets are online through Kinoheld and can be cancelled up to fifteen minutes before the start. The programme marks films with English subtitles as OmeU, and that changes week to week, so check the listing for the night you want.
Wendenschloss: the last screen on the water
Möllhausenufer 30, out in Köpenick, where a lido runs a Wednesday cinema on the sand. Films start at 19:30, the gates open an hour earlier, and the operator makes a point of showing no adverts before the film. Tickets are €10.00, or €8.00 with proof at the box office — the reduction covers students, pupils, apprentices, BerlinPass holders and people with a disability.
Three Wednesdays are left as of 16 September, and the last of them, on 30 September, is the end of the 2026 season. That is the date Berlin.de gets wrong: its index stops the season a week early, on 23 September. The Strandbad’s own event listing for 30 September exists, has a ticket link and a start time, and is the authority here.
It is a long way out, but you are watching a film beside the Dahme with a beer garden behind you, which no inner-district screen here offers. If the water is the point rather than the film, our guide to the best lakes in Berlin covers the swimming version of the same trip.
Haus Schwarzenberg: every film in English, and it ends tonight
Kino Central runs an open air screen in the back courtyard of Haus Schwarzenberg, off Rosenthaler Straße 39 in Mitte — the graffitied passage beside the Hackesche Höfe. It shows Sunday to Wednesday at dusk, and it has one rule no other open air cinema in Berlin matches: every film is either in English or carries English subtitles. The cinema states it outright.
Tonight, Wednesday 16 September, it shows Perfect Days at 20:00 with English subtitles, and that is the last open air date on its programme. After that the screen goes back indoors for the winter.
It is also the most expensive: €14.00 full, €12.00 reduced, with the same prices open air as inside and no surcharges for length or booking. There is a €5.00 solidarity price, and under-15s and whoever comes with them pay €7.00 each. If subtitles are the reason you are here rather than the sky, our guide to English-language cinema in Berlin lists the indoor screens that run OmU and OV all year.
A subtitled film is an easy first plan with someone you do not know well. You sit in the dark for two hours, and the conversation afterwards has an obvious subject. That is most of the awkwardness gone. Post the screening on MITRA, set the time, and you decide who joins. Get MITRA on Google Play · Download on the App Store
What closed, and when
The three big park cinemas run by the same operator finished within a week of each other. Freiluftkino Kreuzberg, in the grounds of Kunstquartier Bethanien, closed on 6 September with a film its programme labels the Abschlussfilm. Freiluftkino Rehberge, on the old open-air stage in the Volkspark in Wedding, ran its programme to 12 September and finished with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Freiluftkino Friedrichshain, the largest of the three, closed on 13 September with Cabaret.
Freiluftkino Hasenheide also closed on 13 September, with a finale at 20:30 on its main stage. Its own site says the season ran “bis zum 13. September” in German and “until 13 September” in English, which is the pair of dates Berlin.de has swapped with Rehberge. Tickets on its main stage were €12.00 full and €11.00 reduced.
Freiluftkino im Rosengarten, in the Volkspark am Weinbergsweg, closed the night before, on Tuesday 15 September, with a surprise film. Berlin.de lists it as free, and it is the only screen here for which that is claimed — but the Rosengarten’s own site prints no admission price at all, so berlin.de is the only source for that and we have left the table blank. It is also the one cinema here that shuts when it rains rather than screening through it: a July film rained off reappeared in the programme on 8 September.
Three more have stopped without publishing a closing date. The Kulturfabrik in Moabit ran a courtyard screen from 12 June; the last listing on its site under an Open Air title is dated 23 August, and tickets were from €7.00. The Freilichtbühne am Weißensee removes its past programme as a matter of policy — its archive page says so — and its film category now reads “Keine Veranstaltungen in dieser Kategorie”; cinema tickets there were €8.50 and €6.50. Freiluftkino Friedrichshagen, at the Naturtheater on Bölschestraße, currently shows “Leider ist derzeit kein Programm vorhanden” and lists €9.00 and €7.00, with small surcharges for films over two hours.
And Freiluftkino Insel has moved. After years on the RAW-Gelände as Insel im Cassiopeia, it spent 2026 at Atelier Gardens, Oberlandstraße 26–35 in Tempelhof — the old Berliner Union-Film studios on the southern edge of Tempelhofer Feld. If you went looking for it in Friedrichshain this summer, that is why you did not find it. Its programme page now reads “No screenings currently scheduled”, and it publishes no closing date and no visible ticket price for the season just finished — the price line is still in its page source, commented out.
The three cinemas that never publish a price
The oddest thing we found: Kreuzberg, Rehberge and Friedrichshain — between them the three best-known open air cinemas in the city — put no standard ticket price anywhere on their websites. Not on the programme pages, not on the info pages, not in the English versions, not in the PDF flyers.
What they do publish are the exceptions. Kreuzberg lists a €5.00 reduced ticket for holders of a Berechtigungsnachweis or a VBB Kundenkarte Berlin S. All three list a fifty per cent reduction on the Ehrenamtskarte and rain capes at €1.20, and the Rehberge flyer adds a Saturday Familientag at €7.50 for everyone. The ordinary price you would pay on an ordinary Tuesday is simply not there — you find it at the checkout.
We have not put a figure in the table for them, because a number we could not read on the cinema’s own site is a number we would be inventing. You find out at the checkout. There are cheaper evenings — our list of free things to do in Berlin has the ones that cost nothing at all.
What is not on in late September
The anti-disappointment section, because most of what you will read about open air cinema in Berlin describes a summer that has already ended.
- The park cinemas are shut. Kreuzberg, Rehberge, Friedrichshain and Hasenheide are the four everyone means by “Freiluftkino”, and all four finished between 6 and 13 September. Deckchairs on a lawn in a Volkspark is a plan for May to mid-September, not for now.
- The ARTE Sommerkino at the Kulturforum is finished. Its operator, the Yorck Kinogruppe, says so in one line — “Die Saison 2026 ist beendet” — and then publishes neither the dates it ran nor what a ticket cost. Berlin.de fills both gaps with 17 June to 28 August and €12.00, and since Yorck prints neither figure, Berlin.de is the only source for them.
- One screen still runs daily. Wendenschloss is Wednesdays only. Neue Zukunft screens every night at 20:00, but only to 1 October. After that you want an indoor screen.
- There is no October open air season. The Herbstfest at Neue Zukunft on 2 October is the end of it. What replaces it is indoor, or it is the Christmas markets, and there is the better part of two months in between that catches people out every year.
If you are planning the rest of the month around this, what is on in Berlin in September and the indoor list for when it rains are the two that pair with it.
There is a fortnight of this left, and then it is indoors until May. Pick one of the two screens above, pick the date, and post it — it takes about forty seconds, and the plan exists whether or not you have already found someone to go with. Get MITRA on Google Play · Download on the App Store
The 2027 dates already published
The three park cinemas that will not tell you this year’s ticket price have already published next year’s opening dates, on their own landing pages, in place of a programme. If you are the sort of person who puts things in a calendar in September for May, here they are.
| Cinema | 2027 season opens | Wording on their site |
|---|---|---|
| Freiluftkino Kreuzberg | 5 May 2027 | “Wir sehen uns am 5. Mai 2027” |
| Freiluftkino Friedrichshain | 14 May 2027 | “Wir sehen uns am 14. Mai 2027.” |
| Freiluftkino Rehberge | From 21 May 2027 | “Saison 2027 ab 21. Mai” |
Kreuzberg opening on 5 May makes it the first of the big screens back. One other has committed to a month but not a day: Open Air-Kino Spandau has taken its programme down and replaced it with “Wir sehen uns wieder im Juni 2027”. Nothing else in the city has named a date.
How we chose these
Every cinema on Berlin.de’s index was checked. The thirteen in the table are the ones with a real 2026 season and a website that says something verifiable. We left out the one-off and festival screens with no published dates — the Nomadenkino, the screen at Schloss Charlottenburg, the bpb nights at Checkpoint Charlie — because their index entries read “Termin noch nicht bekannt”, and there is nothing there to check.
We also left out the short runs that had already finished, most of them in August: the Körnerpark’s free screenings and the Balkonkino on Cecilienplatz, to 21 and 28 August; the Stasi-Zentrale campus cinema; B-Ware’s Hofkino at Franz-Mehring-Platz, 15 June to 4 July at €9.00; the Kinosommer im Liegestuhl in Köpenick, 21 July to 19 August at €10.00; the free Kranzler Eck screen, 28 August to 6 September; and the Waschhaus in Potsdam, which is not in Berlin. Ranking thirteen cinemas by quality would have been a matter of taste. Ranking them by the night they close is a matter of fact, so that is what the table does.
Frequently asked questions
Is open air cinema in Berlin still on in September 2026?
Barely. Two screens are running after 16 September 2026: Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft in Friedrichshain, which shows films to 1 October and closes with a Herbstfest on 2 October, and the Strandbad Wendenschloss in Köpenick, which has Wednesday screenings to 30 September. The courtyard screen at Haus Schwarzenberg closes on 16 September. Everything else has finished for the year.
When does the Berlin open air cinema season end?
The main season runs May to mid-September. The four big park cinemas closed between 6 and 13 September 2026 — Kreuzberg on 6 September, Rehberge on 12 September, Hasenheide and Friedrichshain on 13 September. The last open air films in the city are at Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft on 1 October, and the season closes with its Herbstfest on 2 October.
Which Berlin open air cinema shows films in English?
Kino Central’s open air screen at Haus Schwarzenberg is the only one that guarantees it: the cinema states that every film is in English or carries English subtitles. Its last open air night of 2026 is 16 September. Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft marks individual films OmeU when they have English subtitles, but it varies week to week, so check the listing for the specific night.
How much does an open air cinema ticket cost in Berlin?
Of the screens still open, Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft is €9.00 full and €7.00 reduced, and the Strandbad Wendenschloss is €10.00 and €8.00. Haus Schwarzenberg is the dearest at €14.00 and €12.00, with a €5.00 solidarity price. Hasenheide charged €12.00 before it closed. Kreuzberg, Rehberge and Friedrichshain publish no standard price on their websites at all.
What happens if it rains at a Berlin open air cinema?
It depends on the cinema, and you should assume the film goes ahead. Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft screens in the rain, keeps a small stock of umbrellas and blankets, and has a covered corner with about twenty seats; its terms say the bad-weather risk is yours and refunds are only possible before the cancellation deadline. The Rosengarten does the opposite and closes on rainy days, postponing the event. Several cinemas sell rain capes for €1.20.
Where did Freiluftkino Insel go?
It moved. After years on the RAW-Gelände in Friedrichshain as Insel im Cassiopeia, it spent the 2026 season at Atelier Gardens, Oberlandstraße 26–35 in Tempelhof, on the site of the former Berliner Union-Film studios at the southern edge of Tempelhofer Feld. Its programme page currently reads that no screenings are scheduled.
When does open air cinema in Berlin start again in 2027?
Three cinemas have published dates already. Freiluftkino Kreuzberg opens on 5 May 2027, Freiluftkino Friedrichshain on 14 May 2027, and Freiluftkino Rehberge from 21 May 2027, each printed on its own site. No other Berlin open air cinema has committed to a 2027 date yet.
Can you go to an open air cinema in Berlin alone?
Yes, and it is one of the easier things to do alone in the city — you are in the dark, nobody is looking at you, and single seats are the ones left late. If you would rather not, MITRA is an app for posting a plan like a specific screening on a specific night and deciding who joins you. We build it.
Evening drinks with a view: see rooftop bars in Berlin for which are open this autumn.
Want to keep reading?
- English cinema in Berlin — the indoor screens that run OmU and OV all year.
- Berlin in September — what is still on once the open air season closes.
- Berlin in October — the two months between the last screening and the markets.
- Rainy day activities in Berlin — for the evening the forecast turns.
- Things to do alone in Berlin — if the film is the plan and company is optional.
- Best picnic spots in Berlin — the daylight half of the same evening.
Two screens, and then it is over
There is a particular Berlin regret that arrives in the second week of September, when the evenings turn and the thing you meant to do all summer has quietly stopped happening. Open air cinema is the classic case: four months of it, and a good number of people never quite go.
This year there are two screens left and about a fortnight of them. Neue Zukunft on the Spree at €9.00, to 2 October. Wendenschloss on the water in Köpenick at €10.00, two more Wednesdays after tonight, ending 30 September. Take a jumper — it is properly cold by the time the credits roll now — and if it looks like rain, Neue Zukunft will screen anyway.
A date and a place beats an intention. That is the whole idea behind MITRA: you post a plan — a film on the 30th, a lake in June, dinner on Thursday — and you decide who joins. Free, no card, and you can delete your account whenever you like. Berlin first, more cities on the roadmap. Get MITRA on Google Play · Download on the App Store
Sources
All dates and prices checked on 16 September 2026.
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