Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova 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 Mariana Hristova’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
April აპრილი Otar Iosseliani Soviet Union 1961 46’
Litany of Happy People Zdravi Ljudi Za Razonodu Karpo Godina Yugoslavia 1971 15’
Aguaespejo Granadino José Val de Omar Spain 1955 23’

Part of the Tríptico elemental de España, a great fresco with the structure of a diagonal line that crosses Spain from west to east: it begins in Galicia (earth, mud) with Acariño Galaico, continues through Castilla (fire) with Fuego en Castilla and ends with the Andalusian explosion (water, light) of Aguaespejo Granadino
Motion Painting No. 1 Oskar Fischinger USA 1947 11’
The Seasons Տարվա եղանակները Artavazd Peleshian Soviet Union 1975 29’
The Vampires of Poverty Agarrando Pueblo Carlos Mayolo , Luis Ospina Colombia 1977 29’
Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Sweden 2001 9’
Dream Land Leiputrija Laila Pakalnina Latvia 2004 35’
Hedgehog in the Fog Ёжик в тумане Yuri Norstein Soviet Union 1975 11’

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