Bernd Brehmer is a curator and programmer for the legendary Munich-based underground movie theatre, Werkstattkino, and the director of the Underdox Film Festival since 2006.
Bernd Brehmer
Bernd Brehmer 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 Bernd Brehmer’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | France | 1895 | 1’ | ||
| Le Voyage dans la Lune | Georges Méliès | France | 1902 | 15’ | ||
| Egged On | Charley Bowers, Harold L. Muller, Ted Sears | USA | 1926 | 24’ | ||
| The Confirmee Der Firmling | Karl Valentin | Germany | 1934 | 23’ | ||
| Tit for Tat | Charley Rogers | USA | 1935 | 20’ | ||
| Red Hot Riding Hood | Tex Avery | USA | 1943 | 7’ | ||
| Blood of the Beasts Le sang des bêtes | Georges Franju | France | 1949 | 23’ | ||
| Un Chant d’amour Song of Love | Jean Genet | France | 1950 | 26’ | ||
| Assembly Line | Morton Heilig | USA | 1961 | 35’ | ||
| Special Trains Specijalni vlakovi | Krsto Papić | Yugoslavia | 1972 | 16’ | ||