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Lyse Nsengiyumva
Lyse Nsengiyumva 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 Lyse Nsengiyumva’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Club | Valentin Noujaïm | France | 2022 | 16’ | ||
| Civic | Dwayne LeBlanc | USA | 2022 | 19’ | ||
| Hyperlink | Mzonke Maloney, Evan Wigdorowitz, Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi, Julie Nxadi | South Africa | 2022 | 59’ | ||
| What Did You Dream? | Karabo Lediga | South Africa | 2019 | 19’ | ||
| What the Soil Remembers | José Cardoso | Ecuador, South Africa | 2023 | 29’ | ||
| Hot Sun Jua Kali | Joash Calvin Omondi | Kenya | 2022 | 18’ | ||
| Precious Hair & Beauty | John Ogunmuyiwa | United Kingdom | 2021 | 11’ | ||
| Egúngún (Masquerade) | Olive Nwosu | Nigeria, United Kingdom | 2021 | 14’ | ||
| Machini | Tétshim, Frank Mukunday | Belgium, DR Congo | 2019 | 9’ | ||
| Dreams Like Paper Boats Des rêves en bateaux papiers | Samuel Frantz Suffren | Haiti | 2024 | 19’ | ||