Ivan Ramljak

Ivan Ramljak is a filmmaker and independent curator. For ten years, he curated Short Tuesday at cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb, and for eight years served as the artistic director of Tabor Film Festival, the oldest short film festival in Croatia. Now he works as a programmer for IFFR. He directed fourteen films, mostly documentaries.

Ivan Ramljak 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 Ivan Ramljak’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
La Jetée Chris Marker France 1962 28’
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes Stan Brakhage USA 1972 32’
Pas de deux Norman McLaren Canada 1968 13’
The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk Gratinirani mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk Karpo Godina Yugoslavia 1970 12’
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’
Tango Zbigniew Rybczyński Poland 1981 8’
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe Werner Herzog Germany, Guadeloupe 1977 31’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
Inca Light Robert E. Fulton USA 1972 17’