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
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’ | ||