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
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’ | ||