Bulgaria

There are 5 premium screens in Bulgaria, across IMAX and 4DX. The biggest picture is at Kino Arena Grand Mall Varna & IMAX — 313 m² of lit screen, with almost nothing in it against Cinema City IMAX, Mall of Sofia.

No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Bulgaria crops to 1.90 or wider, so a film shot with IMAX cameras will be missing about a quarter of its picture wherever you see it.

Worth knowing before you book: Cinema City IMAX, Mall of Sofia never lights 31% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.

2 of 5 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. No projector here is yet confirmed by two independent sources, so treat the scores as indicative. 2 rooms are digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.