Aylin Gökmen, a filmmaker from Turkey-Switzerland, has had their short films featured at festivals such as TIFF, Locarno, and Sundance. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, while developing their first feature film.
Aylin Gökmen
Aylin Gökmen 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 Aylin Gökmen’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Life, Autumn Жизнь, осень | Sergei Loznitsa, Marat Magambetov | Russia | 1999 | 35’ | ||
A season — or a lifetime. |
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| Ah, Liberty! | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | 2008 | 20’ | ||
Unruly, luminous. Pure, chaotic freedom. My favourite ode to childhood. |
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| Museum of Fleeting Wonders | Tomás Gómez Bustillo | Argentina, USA | 2020 | 12’ | ||
| And What Is the Summer Saying? अन ऊन काय म्हणतंय? | Payal Kapadia | India | 2018 | 23’ | ||
| Afronauts | Nuotama Bodomo | USA | 2014 | 14’ | ||
| Mast-del مست دل | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom | 2023 | 17’ | ||
| Gulyabani | Gürcan Keltek | Turkey | 2018 | 35’ | ||
| The Seasons Տարվա եղանակները | Artavazd Peleshian | Soviet Union | 1975 | 29’ | ||
| The Fullness of Time (Romance) L’Immense Retour (Romance) | Manon Coubia | France | 2016 | 14’ | ||
| The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing | Theo Panagopoulos | Palestine, United Kingdom | 2024 | 17’ | ||
"It is a history of an unrecoverable past; it is a narrative of what might have been or could have been; it is a history written with and against the archive." — Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts |
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