Oana Ghera has been the Artistic Director of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF) since 2020. She is a film curator, cultural manager, and cinema educator with an academic background in scriptwriting and film studies. Starting from 2024, she is the Industry Coordinator of the European Short Pitch. In the same year, she joined the pre-selection committees of Go Short and Vienna Shorts. She also participates in the curation of the SFC | Rendez-vous Industry market catalogue, in the context of the Cannes Film Festival. Previously, she was a co-programmer for the NexT International Film Festival (2016–2019).
Oana Ghera
Oana Ghera 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 Oana Ghera’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1972 | 32’ | ||
| Un Chant d’amour Song of Love | Jean Genet | France | 1950 | 26’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Saute ma ville Blow Up My Town | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1968 | 13’ | ||
| Le Ballon rouge The Red Balloon | Albert Lamorisse | France | 1956 | 34’ | ||
| Mast-del مست دل | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom | 2023 | 17’ | ||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||
| Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1954 | 38’ | ||
| Blow Job | Andy Warhol | USA | 1964 | 35’ | ||
