About the BFI IMAX

The BFI IMAX is a 500-seat (including wheelchair spaces), state-of-the-art, large-format cinema on the South Bank.

• The screen is more than 20 metres high (nearly the height of five double-decker buses) and 26 metres wide.
• A 11,600-watt digital surround-sound system
• An IMAX projection system (the most sophisticated motion-picture projection system in the world).

Working together, these elements immerse viewers in larger-than-life images and ultra-realistic digital sound, making them feel as if they are literally "in the picture".

The IMAX building
It was opened in 1999 and was made possible thanks to £15 million from the Arts Council of England's Lottery Fund.

It was designed by award-winning architect Bryan Avery of Avery Associates Architects

The multi-storey, glass-enclosed cylinder, illuminated by coloured lighting effects at night, serves as a beacon to the revitalised South Bank.