Christoffer Ode has been the programme director for Uppsala Short Film Festival since 2001.
Christoffer Ode
Christoffer Ode 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 Christoffer Ode’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen Sink | Alison Maclean | New Zealand | 1989 | 14’ | ||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||
| The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin | Canada | 2000 | 6’ | ||
| Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | 1966 | 59’ | ||
| Black | Anouk De Clercq | USA | 2015 | 14’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Schmeerguntz | Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley | France | 1965 | 21’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||