Thomas Logoreci

Writer and filmmaker Thomas Logoreci co-wrote the feature-length essay documentary about Albania, Here Be Dragons, with acclaimed Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins. The film had its European premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Logoreci is the co-writer and co-director of the fiction feature, Bota, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, screened at over 25 film festivals, and was Albania’s submission to the 2016 Academy Awards.

Thomas Logoreci 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 Thomas Logoreci’s submission:

Incredibly difficult to choose only ten short films.

— Thomas Logoreci
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
One Week Buster Keaton , Edward F. Cline USA 1920 24’
Jammin' the Blues Gjon Mili USA 1944 10’
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
If I Had Four Camels Si j'avais quatre dromadaires Chris Marker France, Germany 1966 49’
Now! Santiago Álvarez Cuba 1965 5’
The White Rose Bruce Conner USA 1967 7’
We Menq Artavazd Peleshian Soviet Union 1969 27’
Short of Breath Jay Rosenblatt USA 1991 10’
The Red Death La morte rouge Victor Erice Spain 2006 32’
Ah, Liberty! Ben Rivers United Kingdom 2008 20’