Amarsanaa Battulga

Amarsanaa Battulga is a film critic and programmer.

Amarsanaa Battulga participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Amarsanaa Battulga’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Un Chien Andalou Luis Buñuel France 1928 21’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
Wavelength Michael Snow Canada, USA 1967 45’
The Girl Chewing Gum John Smith United Kingdom 1976 12’
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out Nick Park United Kingdom 1989 23’
For Marilyn Stan Brakhage USA 1992 11’
Poets of Mongolia Peter Brosens, Peter Krüger, Sakhya Byamba Mongolia, Belgium 1999 50’
Samsara Lun hui Hsin-chien Huang Taiwan 2021 27’
Nomadtitude Zulaa Urchuud Mongolia 2021 6’
Lake Baikal Байгал нуур Alisi Telengut Canada, Germany 2023 9’