Cinema ticketing software for Norwegian cinemas

Many Norwegian cinemas are municipally owned or run as part of a kulturhus, and they share a national layer: the Filmweb portal, Kinogavekort and Norgesbilletten, reported through the same systems. That is useful infrastructure, and nothing about Filmgrail replaces it. What it does not give you is a digital front door of your own.

A national portal ranks for your films and sells your seats next to everyone else's. The circuits you compete with sell through their own branded channels; Nordisk Film Kino has its own NFkino app. Filmgrail gives an independent or municipal cinema the same thing: a website and an app on your own domain and your own brand, with the whole programme, a Vipps checkout and a customer record you own. That is why Bergen Kino and Trondheim Kino, two of the largest operators in the country, run on it.

Comparing systems? See cinema ticketing software alternatives, Vista alternatives and Veezi alternatives. There is also a Norwegian-language overview.

Norway is our home market, and it is where Filmgrail has the most customers. Every size of operator is represented:

• City circuits. Bergen Kino runs 18 halls in central Bergen, including Europe's largest D-BOX auditorium, with website, native apps and ticketing on Filmgrail. Trondheim Kino, owned by Trondheim municipality and operating since 1918, runs two cinema centres and 19 halls, selling its EPIQ, MAGIQ and BOUTIQ concepts through its Filmgrail site and apps.
• Regional operators. Aurora Kino runs several cinemas across northern Norway on one CMS, one app and one checkout. Edda Kino in Haugesund has five halls, 944 seats and around 200,000 admissions a year.
• Festivals. BIFF, Norway's largest film festival with over 120 films a year, and the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, which also hosts the New Nordic Films market, run on our festival platform. Edda Kino is the festival's main venue, so the festival and the cinema share one system.
• Town cinemas and kulturhus. Fredrikstad Kino, Bryne Kino, Hitra Kino, Rådhus-Teatret in Kongsvinger, Vega Scene in Oslo, Elverum Kulturhus, Oppdal Kulturhus, Ørland Kultursenter and Fosnavåg Konserthus sell film alongside stage, concerts and events.

A single-hall island cinema and an 18-hall city operator run the same software; what changes is the configuration and the price. Across cinemas on the platform, the average yearly increase in digital ticket sales is 89% (see platform benchmarks). Ask any of them what it is like to work with us; we will put you in touch.

Norway ran against the European trend in 2025: box office rose 7.7% and admissions 2.5%, while European admissions as a whole fell 5.3%, according to UNIC figures in our European cinema statistics. Nordic audiences combine very high smartphone use with near-universal card and wallet payment, so the digital channel carries a larger share of the sale than in most of Europe. Whoever owns that channel owns the relationship.

The trade meets through Film & Kino, the national association of cinemas. Its Kinokonferansen runs in Bergen from 10 to 12 November 2026, and Filmtreff screenings for exhibitors run in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø. We list 15 cinema industry events in Norway, and Film & Kino's leadership is in our who's who in cinema.

Pricing is published and flat: from $200 a year for a single screen to $20,000 a year for a large circuit, per screen, with no per-ticket fees (see pricing). A mid-size film festival pays about $5,000 a year. If we already integrate your box office and payment provider you can be live in a few weeks; a provider we have not connected before takes about a month. Because so many Norwegian cinemas already run on Filmgrail, the payment and reporting set-up Norwegian operators need is routine for us.

See your own cinema on it before you talk to anyone: the free cinema website prototype builds a version of your site from its current address. Then book a demo against your real programme.