Sebastian Apel

Sebastian Apel 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 Sebastian Apel’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
A Camel جمل‎ Ibrahim Shaddad Sudan 1981 14’
Un Chant d’amour Song of Love Jean Genet France 1950 26’
The Burden Min börda Niki Lindroth von Bahr Sweden 2017 15’
Play Schengen Gunhild Enger Norway 2020 15’
history of the entire world, i guess Bill Wurtz USA 2017 19’
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’
Dyketactics Barbara Hammer USA 1974 4’
Chomp it! Mark Chua, Li Shuen Lam Singapore 2023 12’
George-Peterland Gösta Petter-land Christer Wahlberg & Sebastian Rudolph Jensen Sweden 2023 15’
In the Air Tonight Andrew Norman Wilson USA 2020 11’