Didi Cheeka is an off-Nollywood filmmaker, critic, and archivist.
Didi Cheeka
Didi Cheeka 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 Didi Cheeka’s submission:
This selection is in no certain order.
— Didi Cheeka| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statues Also Die Les statues meurent aussi | Chris Marker , Alain Resnais , Ghislain Cloquet | France | 1953 | 30’ | ||
| Borom sarret The Wagoner | Ousmane Sembène | France, Senegal | 1963 | 18’ | ||
| La petite vendeuse de soleil The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun | Djibril Diop Mambéty | France, Senegal, Switzerland | 1999 | 45’ | ||
| Two | Satyajit Ray | India | 1965 | 12’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||
| The Return of an Adventurer Le retour d’un aventurier | Moustapha Alassane | France, Niger | 1966 | 34’ | ||