Edward McCarry

Edward McCarry 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 Edward McCarry’s submission:

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Jaime	António Reis	Portugal	1974	35’

Woman of Tokyo 東京の女	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan	1933	47’

The Country Doctor	D.W. Griffith	USA	1909	14’

The New Desk Der neue Schreibtisch	Karl Valentin	Germany	1914	11’

They Caught the Ferry De nåede færgen	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Denmark	1948	11’

When It Rains	Charles Burnett	USA	1995	13’

La Cabale des oursins	Luc Moullet	France	1991	17’

Les Malles	Samba Félix Ndiaye	Senegal	1989	14’

Big Business	James W. Horne, Leo McCarey	USA	1929	20’

The Merry Jail Das fidele Gefängnis	Ernst Lubitsch	Germany	1917	48’