After the Second World War, Eugen Mertz, son of a Stuttgart winemaker family, was involved in the urban development of Stuttgart. In 1947 he rebuilt the luxury hotel Marquardt, which had been badly damaged in the war, as a commercial building, which has also housed a cinema ever since. With GLORIA, METROPOL, EM and CINEMA, four cinemas now belong to the Innenstadtkinos and shape the film culture of Stuttgart.

Every 2nd Monday of the month, the CINEMA FUTURO film series at CINEMA offers a glimpse of the future of cinema. Here films are shown that throb and capture. Modern, extraordinary and with a changing country focus. The film series wants to stir up a thirst for adventure and curiosity about new, rule-breaking cinema. Each film is personally curated, presented and discussed with a lot of passion.