Amrei Keul

Amrei Keul is co-director of the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany). She studied German and Romance languages and initially worked in theater and exhibition production. Since 2018, she has worked for various film festivals, including Alcine (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) and the Five Lakes Film Festival (Starnberg, Germany), and has served as a guest curator for Interfilm Berlin. In 2022, she took over artistic and managerial direction in Regensburg together with Gabriel Fieger. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the board of the German Short Film Association, AG Kurzfilm.

Amrei Keul 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 Amrei Keul’s submission:

I focused on the more recent years which corresponds to the time I work in the short film festival sector as a programmer

— Amrei Keul
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Lake of Fire NEOZOON Germany 2022 11’
Lake of Happiness Возера радасцi Aliaksei Paluyan Belarus, Germany, Spain 2019 30’
All Inclusive Corina Schwingruber Ilić Switzerland 2018 10’
Aralkum Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko Uzbekistan, Germany 2022 14’
Haulout Haulout Maxim Arbugaev , Evgenia Arbugaeva Russia 2022 25’
Getty Abortions Franzis Kabisch Germany, Austria 2023 22’
Flesh Carne Camila Kater Brazil, Spain 2019 12’
Negative Space Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter France 2017 5’
Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen Seven Times a Day We Bemoan Our Lot and at Night We Get Up to Avoid Our Dreams Susann-Maria Hempel Germany 2014 17’
Fauve Jérémy Comte Canada 2018 17’