The long-abandoned Samer cinema in Gaza City, the oldest in the strip but closed for decades, hosted a special screening of a film about Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Several hundred Gazans went to the cinema on Saturday for the first time in more than 30 years, albeit for one night only.
Jawdat abu Ramadan, a member of the audience, said he wanted to see a permanent cinema in Gaza.
There was a fire at one cinema in 1987 which was widely thought to have been the work of Islamists who consider cinema ungodly.