Rubén Corral Giménez

Rubén Corral is a film curator and the Head of Programming at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao. He has curated film series on Spanish and Basque contemporary cinema for the Instituto Cervantes (Spain), the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany), Indiana University Cinema (USA), Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec (Canada), Filmoteca de Navarra (Spain), and Azkuna Center’s Cinematheque (Spain).

For ZINEBI, he also curated retrospectives devoted to the short films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wang Bing, Marco Bellocchio, and Aki Kaurismäki, among others. Corral is a member of the European Film Academy and holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), a Master's in Multimedia Journalism, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in the History of Spanish Cinema.

Rubén Corral Giménez 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 Rubén Corral Giménez’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Demolition of a Wall Demolition d’un mur Louis Lumière France 1896 1’

The reversibility of cinema, the irreversibility of life. Documentary and fiction clearly united.
Land without Bread Las Hurdes Luis Buñuel Spain 1933 27’

A master tells the audience a reality that might look like fiction to his own perspective, far above reality.
Water-Mirror of Granada Aguaespejo granadino José Val del Omar Spain 1955 21’

Val del Omar championed a vision of cinema that no one else embraced, leaving us with pure magic.
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’
La Jetée Chris Marker France 1962 28’
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
All My Life Bruce Baillie USA 1966 3’
Monegros Antonio Artero Spain 1969 21’

Monegros is the desert of Aragon. The artist dismantles the scaffolding of a canonical documentary about a desert at a time when there was much to dismantle in Spain.
Blue ตะวันดับ Apichatpong Weerasethakul France 2018 12’
France Against the Robots La France contre les robots Jean-Marie Straub Switzerland 2020 10’

A world gained for technology was already lost to freedom in 1948 and 2020.