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The Burden (Niki Lindroth von Bahr, 2017)

    The Burden

    Min börda
    Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden, 2017, 15’

    On a lonely planet, a musical is enacted in a modern marketplace. The employees of various commercial venues, portrayed as anthropomorphic animals, cope with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful showtunes. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

    Bio Niki Lindroth von Bahr

    Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. Her award-winning short films Tord and Tord (2010), Bath House (2014), The Burden (2017), and Something to Remember (2019) have been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, and Sundance. The Burden has won 82 awards, including the Cristal at Annecy. Niki is also a costume designer and has worked with artists such as Fever Ray and David Bowie. 

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    “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

    02.02.2026

    As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.

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      voted by Nina Rodríguez, Marcin Luczaj, Sebastian Apel, Anne Turek, Aleksandra Ławska, Jing Haase, Pavel Horáček, Jade Wiseman
    animation fiction musical satire stop motion

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    The Summer Movie

    Emmanuel Marre, Belgium, 2017, 30’

    A film about highways, tourists, concrete picnic tables, and lukewarm melons. About a man who wants to leave and a child who stops him. A summer movie.

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    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Lynne Sachs, USA, 1987, 7’

    Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.

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    Under the Sun

    Eduardo Esquivel, Mexico, 2017, 15’

    Ana’s life changes radically when she divorces at the age of 40. In front of her family, it gets harder every day to keep pretending everything is fine.

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    Oh Willy...

    Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Belgium, 2011, 17’

    A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony he grew up in to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves Willy in a state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.

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    Atopia

    Olivier De Vos, Belgium, 2021, 18’

    An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

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    Red Giant

    Anne Verbeure, Belgium, 2021, 11’

    Day and night, a giant sits on a hill, far away from his smaller fellow man. He fills his days organising things and making sure everything is in the right place at the right time.

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    Un Chien Andalou

    Luis Buñuel, France, 1929, 21’

    Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote his first feat together with Salvador Dalí, based on their dreams. Don’t get stuck on the plot. Buñuel deliberately omits chronology and opts for Freudian dream logic, in which scenes do not necessarily follow one another logically.

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    Herman@s (Les Adelphes)

    Hélène Alix Mourrier, France, 2021, 29’

    Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. This essayistic film follows their quest to create more recognition for the queer community.

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