Miguel Dias is the festival director and one of the programmers at Curtas Vila do Conde. He also works in promotion, sales, and international distribution at Agência - Portuguese Short Film Agency and has produced various short films.
Miguel Dias
Miguel Dias 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 Miguel Dias’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| What Are the Clouds? Che cosa sono le nuvole? | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy | 1968 | 20’ | ||
| One Week | Buster Keaton , Edward F. Cline | USA | 1920 | 24’ | ||
| The Seasons Տարվա եղանակները | Artavazd Peleshian | Soviet Union | 1975 | 29’ | ||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||
| Powers of Ten | Charles Eames , Ray Eames | USA | 1977 | 9’ | ||
| Neighbours | Norman McLaren | Canada | 1952 | 9’ | ||
| Isle of Flowers Ilha das Flores | Jorge Furtado | Brazil | 1989 | 13’ | ||
| A Story For the Modlins | Sergio Oksman | Spain | 2012 | 26’ | ||