Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal is a programmer, film critic, and distributor based in Mexico City. He is the co-founder of the distribution company La Ola Cine. Currently, he is part of the programming teams for the Ambulante (Mx), Reykjavik International Film Festival (Is), and Tijuana FF. His critical writings have been published in specialised outlets such as Mubi Notebook, Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and festival publications from the Viennale and Locarno, among others. He has served as a jury member at festivals such as Mar del Plata, Indielisboa, Jihlava, Vienna Shorts, and Bucharest Experimental International Film Festival.
Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal
Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal 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 Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal’s submission:
On my S&S poll I included other shorts which otherwise would had made it to this list.
— Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | France | 1895 | 1’ | ||
| Blow Job | Andy Warhol | USA | 1964 | 41’ | ||
| Je vous salue, Sarajevo Hail, Sarajevo | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1993 | 2’ | ||
| The Anthem 赞美诗 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, United Kingdom | 2006 | 5’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| This Is My Kingdom Este es mi reino | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico | 2010 | 13’ | ||
| La Chambre The Room | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1972 | 11’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht Not Reconciled | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | Germany | 1966 | 55’ | ||
| Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars | Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan | 2015 | 2’ | ||