Sarah Schlüssel

Sarah Schlüssel 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 Sarah Schlüssel’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
My Name Is Oona Gunvor Nelson USA 1969 10’
Circle Joung Yumi South Korea 2024 7’
Maria Lassnig Kantate Maria Lassnig, Hubert Sielecki Austria 1992 8’
Home Hein Angelika Andrees, Petra Tschörtner Germany 1990 27’
Vivian's Garden Rosalind Nashashibi United Kingdom 2017 30’
T Keisha Rae Witherspoon USA 2019 14’
The Sower of Stars El sembrador de estrellas Lois Patiño Spain 2022 25’
Les chenilles Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany France, Lebanon 2022 30’
Altiplano Malena Szlam Argentina, Canada, Chile 2018 16’
Where the Old People Live Wo wohnen alte Leute? Ella Bergmann-Michel Germany 1932 12’