Anas Sareen is a writer-director. He was born in 1992 in Dubai to an Iraqi-Turkish mother and an Indian father, and holds Swiss citizenship. Anas’s short film, Les Dieux (الالهة), is currently playing in festivals across the world after premiering in Locarno, and he is now beginning to write his first feature.
Anas Sareen
Anas Sareen 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 Anas Sareen’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Love, Dad Milý tati | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2021 | 13’ | ||
Endlessly moving in its sincerity and cinematic poetry. |
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| With a Little Patience Türelem | László Nemes | Hungary | 2007 | 14’ | ||
Forever frightening in its depiction of brutal indifference. |
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| Courage, the Cowardly Dog | John R. Dilworth | 1999 | ||||
Cartoon Network's surrealist masterpiece made me fall in love with the gravity-defying qualities of animation. |
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| The Hand 手 | Wong Kar-Wai | Hong Kong | 2020 | 56’ | ||
I'm verging on heresy as the runtime is 56 minutes, but each second of this film is infused with a glorious and unforgettable sensuality. |
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| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
Haunted me from the first time I saw it. |
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| An Avocado Pit Um Caroço de Abacate | Ary Zara | Portugal, Mexico | 2022 | 20’ | ||
Raw, smart, and impeccably acted. |
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| Lick the Star | Sofia Coppola | USA | 1998 | 14’ | ||
Four high school girls plot to poison stupid high school boys. What's not to love? |
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| Danse serpentine | Georges Méliès , Alice Guy-Blaché , Thomas Edison | France | 1902 | 2’ | ||
These first marriages of cinema and dance are to me like brief cloud-bursts of joy. |
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| A Study in Choreography for Camera | Maya Deren | USA | 1945 | 2’ | ||
Talley Beattey dances through a two-minute-world of black and white like some new god. |
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| Slow - Kylie Minogue | Baillie Walsh | Australia | 2003 | 4’ | ||
It's just so superbly gay. |
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