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
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’ | ||