Marie Ketzscher is a freelance PR consultant specialising in cultural and scientific topics. Her current projects include film and music festivals such as Doxumentale, the Festival of Animation Berlin, and Pop-Kultur Berlin, as well as film releases. She also handles film premieres and theatrical releases. Since 2011, she has been writing for the online magazine Berliner Filmfestivals about animation, feminism, and more; since August 2020, she has served as its editor-in-chief. In addition, she supports festivals with (consultative) programme curation and lectures. Since 2024, she has been part of the feature film selection committee at achtung berlin. For DOK Leipzig, she co-selected the animated films in 2025.
Marie Ketzscher
Marie Ketzscher 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 Marie Ketzscher’s submission:
Love this poll! Didn't have time to write any comments unfortunately and had way too many films to choose from. Hope this poll helps to create more awareness and attention for short films.
— Marie Ketzscher| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Street Deine Straße | Güzin Kar | Switzerland | 2020 | 8’ | ||
| Harvie Krumpet | Adam Elliot | Australia | 2003 | 22’ | ||
| World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2015 | 17’ | ||
| Amazon Woman | Anna Vasof | Austria | 2021 | 4’ | ||
| Achill | Gudrun Krebitz | Austria | 2012 | 9’ | ||
| The Centrifuge Brain Project | Till Nowak | Germany | 2012 | 6’ | ||
| Crocodile Krokodill | Kaspar Jancis | Estonia | 2009 | 16’ | ||
| Oh Willy... | Emma De Swaef , Marc James Roels | Belgium | 2011 | 17’ | ||
| Crocus | Suzan Pitt | USA | 1971 | 7’ | ||
| Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Poland | 1981 | 8’ | ||