Claire Diao promotes PanAfrican films through film programming, criticism, and as a distributor for Sudu Connexion.
Claire Diao
Claire Diao 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 Claire Diao’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borom sarret The Wagoner | Ousmane Sembène | France, Senegal | 1963 | 18’ | ||
| Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers | Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson | Sweden | 2001 | 10’ | ||
| La petite vendeuse de soleil The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun | Djibril Diop Mambéty | France, Senegal, Switzerland | 1999 | 45’ | ||
| Mwanza The Great | Rungano Nyoni | Zambia, United Kingdom | 2011 | 23’ | ||
| Twaaga | Cedric Ido | Burkina Faso, France | 2013 | 23’ | ||
| Vers la tendresse Towards Tenderness | Alice Diop | France | 2016 | 39’ | ||
| Zombies | Baloji Tshiani | Belgium, DR Congo | 2019 | 14’ | ||
| The Sense of Touch Le sens du toucher | Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo | France | 2014 | 15’ | ||
| Shadow Animals Skuggdjur | Jerry Carlsson | Sweden | 2017 | 22’ | ||
| I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face | Sameh Alaa | Belgium, Egypt, Qatar | 2020 | 15’ | ||