The Truffaut cinema in Girona recorded one in 2023 Viewership: 38,802The Best value in the device’s 23 years of life. With this data, they not only reach pre-Covid-19 visitor numbers, but have practically doubled the 2022 data. This year’s total number of 20,028 spectators was already one of the best in the city’s cinema, This year 2023 was “extraordinary” with a percentage increase of 93.74%. “Truffaut’s lively, diverse and high-quality program helps more Gironans enjoy culture every day,” said Girona’s deputy mayor and councilor for culture, Quim Ayats.
As the city council says in a press release, the increase in the number of spectators in the facility is higher than the average recovery of spectators and spectators of cinemas in the state, which, according to the company ComScore, is responsible for controlling the box office of the halls, it was one 26% compared to 2022. In addition, most cinemas have not yet returned to pre-pandemic averages – cinemas are still 20% below the 2015-2019 average – Cinema Truffaut has not only regained them, but even notoriously increased them. In fact, that was The best year so far was 2013, when the town hall achieved this 21,197 spectators.
The city council attributes this success primarily to the opening of the second room, which made it possible to increase the number of meetings and, above all, the variety of what was on offer. 2023 marked the first full year that the second hall was operational since its inauguration on November 18, 2022. In addition to hosting numerous parallel events, the second hall allows the continuity of titles in a single hall They had to leave the billboard more quickly to accommodate new premieres.
On the other hand, there were events that contributed significantly to the increase in audience. Among these stands out “Stanley Kubrick” cycle the Filmoteca de Catalunya, which gathered 1,700 people and became the most successful series ever organized by the Filmoteca in Girona.
We should also highlight the characters of one of the phenomena of the season: Patrícia Font’s film “The Master Who Promised the Sea”. The film was seen by 2,700 people and became the second most viewed in the history of the meetinghouse, behind only “Estiu 1993” and surpassing “Alcarràs”. The top 5 most watched films are completed by the Irish “The quiet Girl” by Colm Bairead; “Anatomy of a Fall,” by Justine Triet; “Living” by Oliver Hermanus and “The Triangle of Sadness” by Ruben Ostlund.
For this year 2024, Cinema Truffaut’s challenge is Consolidating these visitor numbers. As far as infrastructure is concerned, the improvement work for Room 2 is planned to be carried out in the first quarter of the year in order to solve the visibility problems. This reform, already in the tender phase, will reduce the capacity of the room to 50 seats and also improve aspects of ventilation and accessibility. Further developments in the first months of 2024 include updating and modernizing the company’s appearance as well as improving the quality of the Dolby sound system in Room 1, which will also integrate the 7.1 system.
