Melissa has been working in the wonderful world of short films for more than twenty years. After studying cinema at university, she distinguished herself as a director and worked as an editor on various projects. Between 2003 and 2009, she planned and organised nearly a hundred independent short film screenings and events. She joined REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Quebec, Canada) in 2009, and since then, she has devoted herself entirely to programming. She approaches programming shorts the way she would edit a film. Nothing is left to chance. Everything is connected.
Mélissa Bouchard
Mélissa Bouchard 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 Mélissa Bouchard’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where is Kim Basinger? ¿Donde está Kim Basinger? | Édouard Deluc | Argentina, France | 2009 | 28’ | ||
| Two Birds Smáfuglar | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland | 2008 | 15’ | ||
| The Mass of Men | Gabriel Gauchet | United Kingdom | 2013 | 17’ | ||
| Las Palmas | Johannes Nyholm | Sweden | 2011 | 11’ | ||
| Like the Ones I Used to Know Les grandes claques | Annie St-Pierre | Canada | 2021 | 18’ | ||
| Fauve | Jérémy Comte | Canada | 2018 | 17’ | ||
| Curfew | Shawn Christensen | USA | 2011 | 19’ | ||
| Madre | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain | 2017 | 18’ | ||
| The Distance Between Us and the Sky Η Απόσταση Ανάμεσα στον Ουρανό κι Εμάς | Vasilis Kekatos | Greece, France | 2019 | 9’ | ||
| Even If She Had Been a Criminal… Eût-elle été criminelle... | Jean-Gabriel Périot | France | 2006 | 10’ | ||