Emily Wright is a film curator and media professional, currently working as global senior programming manager at MUBI, where she curates and licenses titles globally for the streaming platform. Prior to MUBI, she was a film programmer for Porto/Post/Doc, a programme advisor at Open City Documentary Festival, and curated seasons at the Cinemateca de Bogotá and Close-Up London. Alongside her festival work, she has worked as a producer and creative consultant on short documentaries for international news outlets, including Time Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The New Yorker.
Emily Wright
Emily Wright 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 Emily Wright’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | France | 1933 | 41’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Saute ma ville Blow Up My Town | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1968 | 13’ | ||
| Mes voisins My Neighbours | Med Hondo | France | 1971 | 35’ | ||
| About the Art of Love or a Film with 14441 Frames 14441 kvadrat | Karpo Aćimović Godina | Yugoslavia | 1972 | 11’ | ||
| Betty Tells Her Story | Liane Brandon | USA | 1972 | 20’ | ||
| What Is Poetry to You? ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? | Cecilia Vicuña | Colombia | 1980 | 23’ | ||
| The Black Tower | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1987 | 24’ | ||
| Atlantiques | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | 2009 | 16’ | ||
| I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead | Beatrice Gibson | Italy, United Kingdom, USA | 2018 | 20’ | ||