Diego Armando Aparicio is the artistic director of Queer Wave, the Cyprus LGBTQIA+ film festival. Since 2019, he has been part of the selection committee of Giornate degli Autori at the Venice International Film Festival. Diego graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College London. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
Diego Armando Aparicio
Diego Armando Aparicio 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 Diego Armando Aparicio’s submission:
This was so much fun to think about and fill out <3
— Diego Armando Aparicio| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Swan | Konstantina Kotzamani | France, Greece | 2019 | 40’ | ||
| Mast-del مست دل | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom | 2023 | 17’ | ||
| Naked in the Streets at Night Nus dans les rues la nuit | Benoit Rambourg | France | 2019 | 21’ | ||
| Un Chant d’amour Song of Love | Jean Genet | France | 1950 | 26’ | ||
| Dustin | Naïla Guiguet | France | 2020 | 20’ | ||
| Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 (Got A Light?) | David Lynch | USA | 2017 | 56’ | ||
| Hardly Working | Total Refusal | Austria | 2022 | 20’ | ||
| Islands Les Îles | Yann Gonzalez | France | 2017 | 23’ | ||
| Different from the Others Anders als die Andern | Richard Oswald | Germany | 1919 | 50’ | ||
| Roundhay Garden Scene | Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince | France, United Kingdom | 1888 | |||
double bill #9
curated by Diego Armando Aparicio
What festers beneath the skin, boils over, and leaves scars in its wake. Yet with the help of those brave enough to bring it to light, it persists—and resists. These filmmakers reveal how trans survival relies on remembrance and reinvention—on refusing to let the world decide who is allowed to exist.