Nina de Vroome

Nina de Vroome (1989) is a filmmaker, teacher, and author. She studied film at KASK / School of Arts Ghent and graduated with Waves (2013). Her further filmography includes Een idee van de zee [A Sea Change] (2016), Het geluk van honden [A Dog’s Luck] (2018), and Globes (2021). Her films were shown at international festivals such as Visions du Réel and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is a writer and editor for Sabzian, a Belgian magazine on cinema. She has participated in PhD in One Night, a collective that questions and re-invents pedagogical constellations. As a teacher, she is involved in various educational projects. She makes collages, drawings, and engages in collaborations as a sound engineer.

Nina de Vroome 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 Nina de Vroome’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Filmmaker’s Holiday De vakantie van de filmer Johan van der Keuken The Netherlands 1974 39’
Scenes From A Wild Boar Hunt Scènes de chasse au sanglier Claudio Pazienza Belgium 2007 46’
Un Chant d’amour Song of Love Jean Genet France 1950 26’
Blight John Smith United Kingdom 1996 15’
Elegy Elégia Zoltan Huszarik Hungary 1965 19’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
The Seasons Տարվա եղանակները Artavazd Peleshian Soviet Union 1975 29’
An Image Ein Bild Harun Farocki Germany 1983 25’
Les Mains négatives Marguerite Duras France 1978 14’
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’