Henni Berger

Henni Berger 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 Henni Berger’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Intro Anne Isensee Germany 2022 8’

A "hörfilm" - a film to hear. this short breaks out of traditional vivible narratives and is a sort of meta-reflexion about what films can do and how films and storytelling work.
Angemessen Angry Elsa van Damke Germany 2024 23’

This is a powerful series of 5 shortfilms. It's the story of a superhero, about revenge and about reversing shame. A combination of socially critical themes, innovative presentation and sensitive humour.
La Jetée Chris Marker France 1962 28’
Maso and Miso go boating Maso et Miso vont en bateau Les Insoumuses France 1967 56’

Film by french video-activists: Carole Rossoupolous, Delphine Seyrig, Ioana Wieder, Nadia Ringart. The video serves both as a corrective to the statements made on hegemonial, patriarchal television and as active criticism of the voice. The feminist intervention is evident in the practical deconstruction of the material and the resulting shift in meaning.
Ulysse Agnès Varda France 1983 22’
The Results of Feminism Les Résultats du féminisme Alice Guy-Blaché France 1906 7’
The Way Things Go Der Lauf der Dinge Peter Fischli, David Weiss Switzerland 1978 30’
Ever is Over All Pipilotti Rist Switzerland, USA 1997 4’
Global Groove/TV-Garden Nam June Paik USA 1973
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’

As a memorial against forgetting, this unsparing documentary film about the Holocaust combines haunting images with the music of Hanns Eisler.