Sarajevo-based Farah Hasanbegović is an alumnus of Bela Tarr’s film.factory and a Doc Nomads Erasmus Mundus Scholar. They work at the intersection of animated non-fiction and audio-visual performance. Both as a curator and a filmmaker, Farah’s work is grounded in explaining the world in our collective fight against despair and includes commissioned pieces for UN Women and the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation. Their films have been screened in competition at Visions du Reel, Ji.hlava International Documentary Festival, Festival dei Popoli, ZagrebDox, DocLisboa, Sarajevo Film Festival, and more. A Berlinale Talent Campus Sarajevo alumnus, Farah was also a Programmer of the Future at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
Farah Hasanbegović
Farah Hasanbegović 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 Farah Hasanbegović’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicht löschbares Feuer The Inextinguishable Fire | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1969 | 22’ | ||
| A Story for the Modlins | Sergio Oxman | Spain | 2012 | 26’ | ||
| De Poes The Cat | Johan van der Keuken | The Netherlands | 1968 | 6’ | ||
| Chat écoutant de la musique Cat Listening to Music | Chris Marker | France | 1988 | 3’ | ||
| Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik Workers Leaving the Factory | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1995 | 36’ | ||
| Black Panthers | Agnès Varda | France | 1968 | 28’ | ||
| Shinjuku Station | Motoharu Jônouchi | Japan | 1974 | 15’ | ||
| Je vous salue, Sarajevo Hail, Sarajevo | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1993 | 2’ | ||
| One Fine Day | Takeshi Kitano | Japan | 2007 | 3’ | ||
| Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death | Arthur Jafa | USA | 2017 | 8’ | ||