When can I buy tickets?

From Wednesday 14 October 2026 — at the box office, on the cinemas’ websites and at the machines in the foyers (fiestadelcine.com).

Which cinemas take part in the Canaries?

Eleven: Arrecife and San Bartolomé (Lanzarote), Caleta de Fuste (Fuerteventura), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria including Tamaraceite, Telde, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Orotava and Santa Cruz de La Palma. La Gomera and El Hierro are absent.

Do I pay €3.50 for 3D or a premium room too?

Not necessarily. 3D, special rooms, special events and VIP seats fall under each cinema’s own access terms, “pudiendo llevar suplementos”.

Can I add the Carnet Joven or a senior discount?

No, the promotion is “no acumulable a otras ofertas”. The only exception in the FAQ: the Bono Cultura Joven at 18.

CANARY ISLANDS · CULTURE

Cinema for €3.50 from 19 to 22 October: the accreditation step is gone, and eleven Canary cinemas are taking part

From Monday 19 to Thursday 22 October 2026 a cinema ticket costs €3.50 at the participating venues — and the registration many people remember from earlier years is gone: the organisers of the Fiesta del Cine have abolished the accreditation. Their FAQ says word for word “ya no es necesario solicitar la acreditación en la Web para participar en la Fiesta del Cine” — nothing special to do, just turn up. As of this 27 September the official list names 322 cinemas with 2,817 screens in Spain, eleven of them in the Canaries. The €3.50, however, is a floor, not a promise.

27 September 2026 · By Lucía Medina Reyes · 5 min. · Editorial responsibility: Matthias Camenzind, Editor-in-Chief

The Teatro Guimerá in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (illustrative)

Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 (illustrative image).

The dates and the sources

Dates: Monday 19 to Thursday 22 October 2026 (fiestadelcine.com, “¿Dudas?” section, read on 27 September 2026).
Price: €3.50 per ticket; the site writes it “3.50€” and ties the price to the box office: “Precio de 3.50€ por cada entrada adquirida en taquilla.”
On sale from Wednesday 14 October 2026 at the box office, on the cinemas’ websites and at the machines in the foyers (fiestadelcine.com).
Participants: 322 cinemas with 2,817 screens in Spain, eleven cinemas with 91 screens in the Canaries — our own count of the “Encuentra tu cine” list as it stood on 27 September 2026.
Previous edition: 1,352,668 admissions from 8 to 11 June 2026, 4.3 percent more than in June 2025 — provisional Rentrak figures, published by eldiario.es on 12 June 2026.

The step that has gone

For years the Fiesta del Cine ran through a registration on the website. That step no longer exists. Asked “¿Qué hay que hacer para participar en la Fiesta del Cine?”, the organisers answer themselves: “ya no es necesario solicitar la acreditación en la Web …, por lo que no hay que hacer nada en especial para participar.” It is not new: publico.es wrote the same on 3 June 2026 about the June edition. It is new only for those who have not been to the cinema since. Nor is anything capped: at the counter it all works “igual que un día normal”, and you may take as many tickets as you like.

The eleven Canary cinemas, by municipality

For the province of Las Palmas the “Encuentra tu cine” list names eight venues: Multicines Atlántida in Arrecife (5 screens) and Multicines Deiland in San Bartolomé (5), both on Lanzarote; Cine Yelmo Fuerteventura in Caleta de Fuste, municipality of Antigua (6); and on Gran Canaria, Cine Yelmo Las Arenas (11) and Ocine Premium 7 Palmas (9) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cine Yelmo Alisios (10) in the district of Tamaraceite, Artesiete Las Terrazas in Telde (10) and Cine Yelmo Vecindario in Santa Lucía de Tirajana (11). For the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife there are three: Cine Yelmo Meridiano in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (11), the Yelmo venue in La Orotava (12; the table spells it “Orotova”) and the Teatro Cine Chico in Santa Cruz de La Palma (1 screen). Ninety-one screens in all. What is missing: no cinema on La Gomera or El Hierro, none in the south of Tenerife, none in La Laguna. Cines Price Prime in Santa Cruz and the Odeon at El Muelle, both of which we have reported on, are not on it on 27 September either.

What the €3.50 does not cover

The small print is short: “Las proyecciones en 3D, eventos, proyecciones y salas especiales y butacas VIP están sujetas a las condiciones de acceso de cada local, pudiendo llevar suplementos.” First, 3D screenings, special rooms, special events and VIP seats may carry supplements, at each cinema’s discretion. Second, the price applies “por cada entrada adquirida en taquilla”, that is at the box office; online or at a foyer machine the purchase follows the sales platform’s terms and may carry a surcharge. Third, the promotion is “no acumulable a otras ofertas” — with one exception in the FAQ: the Bono Cultura Joven at 18.

What a normal ticket costs on the islands

Only one of the eleven venues publishes its prices in readable form. Cines Lanzarote — Atlántida in Arrecife, Deiland in San Bartolomé — gives on its “Tarifas” page €6.50 standard and €6.20 reduced on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, €5.50 on Wednesdays, the “Día del espectador”, and €7.00 and €6.50 reduced from Friday to Sunday and on public holidays and their eves; reduced there means over 65, under 16, students. Rooms 4 and 5 at Deiland carry €1.50 extra as “Cines Lanzarote Plus”. The saving is therefore €3.00 on 19, 20 and 22 October, but only €2.00 on Wednesday 21 October. For Yelmo, Ocine and Artesiete we found no readable price list, and the Teatro Cine Chico’s tariff page is an image with no text: not findable as far as we could see — not: non-existent. Anyone aged 65 or over should compare Real Decreto 390/2025 (BOE-A-2025-9387): €2 one day a week, not combinable.

How fast the seats go

The previous edition gives the order of magnitude: 1,352,668 admissions from 8 to 11 June 2026, 4.3 percent more than in June 2025 — provisional figures from the research firm Rentrak, published by eldiario.es on 12 June 2026; audiovisual451.com gave the same admissions figure and 4.4 percent. The release from FECE, the cinema operators’ federation, we could not open: incomplete certificate chain. Nobody publishes a Canary breakdown. In practice: the promotion falls on Monday to Thursday, the cheapest days anyway — and there is no special procedure. The FAQ says it works like a normal day, and says nothing about what happens when a screening sells out.

Tickets are on sale from Wednesday 14 October. The conditions name the €3.50 expressly for the box office; online and at the machine the platform may add a surcharge. Ask about the supplement for 3D and premium rooms before you pay: at Deiland, rooms 4 and 5 carry €1.50 extra. At 18 the Bono Cultura Joven works — the only discount that does.

€3.50 is the floor, not the final price. 3D, VIP seats, IMAX, 4DX, isens, special rooms and special events may carry supplements set by the individual cinema; online, the platform’s terms apply on top. Carnet Joven, senior discounts and coupons are excluded. The list we read on 27 September names eleven Canary cinemas, none on La Gomera, none on El Hierro and none in the south of Tenerife. Lists do get extended — so check fiestadelcine.com again before setting off.

FAQ

Do I have to register beforehand?: No. The organisers’ FAQ says: “ya no es necesario solicitar la acreditación en la Web”. Nothing to fill in, nothing to show.
When can I buy tickets?: From Wednesday 14 October 2026 — at the box office, on the cinemas’ websites and at the machines in the foyers (fiestadelcine.com).
Which cinemas take part in the Canaries?: Eleven: Arrecife and San Bartolomé (Lanzarote), Caleta de Fuste (Fuerteventura), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria including Tamaraceite, Telde, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Orotava and Santa Cruz de La Palma. La Gomera and El Hierro are absent.
Do I pay €3.50 for 3D or a premium room too?: Not necessarily. 3D, special rooms, special events and VIP seats fall under each cinema’s own access terms, “pudiendo llevar suplementos”.
Can I add the Carnet Joven or a senior discount?: No, the promotion is “no acumulable a otras ofertas”. The only exception in the FAQ: the Bono Cultura Joven at 18.

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