11th edition | 2025 | Programmes

Redefining Cinematic Narratives in a Fractured Totality

XI Nefiltravanae Kino curates a mosaic of cinematic forms to interrogate contemporary existence, where fragmented realities and systemic power structures demand new storytelling paradigms. Across programs like Foreigners In Universe and Human & Algorithms, films employ glitch aesthetics, non-linear narratives, and hybrid media to critique technological, ecological, and ideological systems—echoing Hito Steyerl’s “poor image” and Gilles Deleuze’s “time-image.” The festival navigates tensions between tradition and experimentation: Horror section rejects imitation, Walls and Sounds dissects language’s dual role as bridge and barrier, and Leviathan’s Dreams contextualizes personal trauma within socio-political violence. Even the Belarussian collection, though regionally focused, contributes to a broader dialogue on identity under pressure.

By embracing dissonance—algorithmic alienation, ecological extraction, mental health stigma—the festival positions cinema not as escapism but as a mirror and disruptor. It proposes that storytelling’s evolution lies in its ability to hold contradictions: linearity and fragmentation, control and resistance, individual and collective. Here, film becomes a site of inquiry, urging viewers to question not just what they see, but how they see, in a world where visibility is both weapon and refuge.

Live Screenings Schedule

The festival will take place in a hybrid format. There will be live screenings in Warsaw, Vilnius, Helsinki, and Minsk from April 23 to 27, 2025, as well as online screenings. (minor changes to the schedule are possible)

April 23 | 7 pm | Belarusian Films | Vilnius, CreateCulture Space
April 25 | 6 pm | Belarusian Films | Warsaw, cinema Kinoteka
April 26 | 7 pm | Belarusian Films | Helsinki, Kitchen Lab Tarvo
April 26 | 5 pm | Foreigners in Universe | Minsk
April 26 | 7 pm | Human & Algorithms | Minsk
April 27 | 5.40 pm | Anthology | Vilnius | cinema Skalvija
April 27 | 6 pm | Solo Soul Sauna | Helsinki, Kitchen Lab Tarvo
May 04 | 6 pm | Who Hides Madness | Hamburg, Haus 73

XI Nefiltravanae Kino Programmes

Animation

As theorist Paul Wells notes, animation’s “metamorphic potential” allows it to destabilize fixed meanings, rendering complex themes—from environmental collapse to ...
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Anthology

The program “Anthology” will present some of the most interesting fresh short films of the last year. The program is ...
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Belarusian Films

This curated selection of contemporary Belarusian cinema offers a prismatic reflection of a society navigating displacement, existential uncertainty, and the ...
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Filmic Variety

This generally eclectic collection of films includes five interesting works. Non-linear, metaphorical, highly stylized, genre boundary blurred, in radical search ...
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Foreigners In Universe

The works in Foreigners In Universe interrogate the fractured relationships between individuals and the systems—technological, ideological, ecological—that seek to define, ...
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Hidden Madness

The NoFilter Kino team proposes to enter the dark territory of cinema together with guest authors in order to face ...
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Horror

This program challenged us about the possibility and viability of horror within a short film. Usually we are faced with ...
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Human & Algorithms

As algorithms increasingly mediate human experience—curating desires, dictating behaviors, and reshaping identities—this program interrogates the fraught symbiosis between humanity and ...
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