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May Ziade
May Ziade 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 May Ziade’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations de Salon I | Danielle Arbid | Lebanon | 2004 | 44’ | ||
| A Camel جمل | Ibrahim Shaddad | Sudan | 1981 | 14’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Les Mains négatives | Marguerite Duras | France | 1978 | 14’ | ||
| Moonscape | Mona Benyamin | Palestine | 2020 | 17’ | ||
| Ulysse | Agnès Varda | France | 1983 | 22’ | ||
| Janine | Cheryl Dunye | USA | 1990 | 9’ | ||
| Razeh-del | Maryam Tafakory | United Kingdom | 2024 | 27’ | ||
| Workshop Taller | Narcisa Hirsch | Argentina | 1975 | 11’ | ||
| The Day When… Le jour où | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1997 | 7’ | ||