Carlos Pereira, born in Lisbon, is studying film directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). His films have been screened at festivals such as Locarno and San Sebastián. His film Slimane (2023) won the German Film Critics Award for Best Short Film. His first feature film, Remote Islands, written during a residency at The Bergman Estate on Fårö, is currently in pre-production.
Carlos Pereira
Carlos Pereira 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 Carlos Pereira’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the Dark V temnote | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Russia, Finland | 2004 | 41’ | ||
| Bread Day Khlebnyy den | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Russia | 1998 | 55’ | ||
| Partie de campagne A Day in the Country | Jean Renoir | France | 1946 | 41’ | ||
| Wind Szél | Marcell Iványi | Hungary | 1996 | 7’ | ||
| Elephant | Alan Clarke | United Kingdom | 1989 | 37’ | ||
| Aqueronte | Manuel Muñoz Rivas | Spain | 2023 | 26’ | ||
| Golden Flask Auksinis Flakonas | Jurgis Matulevičius, Paulius Aničas | Lithuania | 2020 | 28’ | ||
| Wilhelm der Schäfer | Josie Rücker | Germany | 2004 | 26’ | ||
| Phantoms of Nabua ผีนาบัว | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Germany, Thailand, United Kingdom | 2009 | 11’ | ||
| Optimism | Deborah Stratman | Canada, USA | 2018 | 15’ | ||