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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’ | ||