Born in Strasbourg, Helen Faradji has been living in Quebec since 1999. She is a film critic and columnist, notably for Radio-Canada and La balado de Fred Savard. She is also the Director of Programming for the Quebec City Film Festival. In 2025, she published her first novel, La Corde blanche, with Héliotrope publishing.
Helen Faradji
Helen Faradji 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 Helen Faradji’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Neighbours | Norman McLaren | Canada | 1952 | 9’ | ||
| Next Floor | Denis Villeneuve | Canada | 2008 | 12’ | ||
| Crac | Frédéric Back | Canada | 1981 | 15’ | ||
| Window Water Baby Moving | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1959 | 13’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Vincent | Tim Burton | USA | 1982 | 6’ | ||
| Fauve | Jérémy Comte | Canada | 2018 | 17’ | ||
| Love Exists L'amour existe | Maurice Pialat | France | 1960 | 20’ | ||
| Ryan | Chris Landreth | Canada | 2004 | 13’ | ||