Short Movie Club

24/03/2026

From totalitarian absurdity to intimate family drama, from national borders to the borders of one’s own body — this program brings together films in which reality loses its monolithic certainty. The characters face the ground giving way beneath their feet: whether it’s a burnt-out lightbulb, a mysterious piece of cheese, a stranger in the forest, or their own trauma. This is cinema about the fragility of inner order, the illusion of control, and that “first crack” after which nothing may ever be the same again.

20/03/2026

NoFilter Kino festival trailer

10/03/2026

This year, NoFilter Kino invites viewers to take Odysseus’ place during the festival, who ordered to be tied to the mast and have his ears plugged with wax so that he could not hear the songs of the sirens.

Adorno and Horkheimer interpreted ‘The Odyssey and the Sirens’ as the birth of the Western subject: tied to the mast, he hears but cannot act; his sailors, consumers of mass culture, whose ears are also plugged with wax, on the contrary, act but cannot hear. We invite you to break down the walls of hierarchy and relive the experience of Odysseus and his crew, so that you can make your own choices.

Welcome to the noise and algorithmic vibe.

10/04/2025

The film festival will take place from April 23 to May 4 in Warsaw, Vilnius, Hamburg, Helsinki and Minsk. Together with the authors, the organizers propose to enter the dark territory of cinema in order to face the choice of whether to cross the boundary of the screen or to leave it.

The diverse thematic programs of the XI Nefiltravanae Kino include more than fifty films from all over the world, which address not only images but also people's feelings and thoughts.

Image from NO HORSES ON MARS by Bea de Visser

11/02/2025

On the one hand, cinematic means of expression are very dynamic. For example, films become obsolete relatively quickly. New trends and manifestos emerge which also soon find their way into the archives of history, such as Dogma-95. On the other hand, cinema can also be stable. Some codes and conventions, clichés are fixed for a long time while others seem to remain forever. Mass appeal, large box office receipts and successful distribution contribute to the conservatism of artistic expressive means. However, capital begins to look for technical improvements and new approaches to the changing audience in times of crisis...

The full article on shortmovie club (Fernando Solanas on the picture)

19/11/2024

Does the ideological confrontation continue in the field of the real in film? Are avant-garde and revolutionary doomed? The end of history?

A short essay on reality in film. The question of whether the avant-garde and revolutionarity in cinema are doomed to remain an illusion, a fantasy, or a virtual reality remains open.