Tomáš Hudák is a film critic, programmer, and festival worker based in Bratislava, Slovakia, currently working at the Slovak Film Institute. He is a co-founder of Pontón, the “slow film magazine”, while his film criticism and interviews can also be found in magazines such as Senses of Cinema, Desistfilm, or Dok.revue.
Tomáš Hudák
Tomáš Hudák 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 Tomáš Hudák’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now! | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1965 | 5’ | ||
| The War Game | Peter Watkins | United Kingdom | 1966 | 48’ | ||
| The Vampires of Poverty Agarrando Pueblo | Carlos Mayolo , Luis Ospina | Colombia | 1977 | 29’ | ||
| A Camel جمل | Ibrahim Shaddad | Sudan | 1981 | 14’ | ||
| Is This Just a Story? Idi Katha Maatramena | Yugantar | India | 1983 | 25’ | ||
| La petite vendeuse de soleil The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun | Djibril Diop Mambéty | France, Senegal, Switzerland | 1999 | 45’ | ||
| She Puppet | Peggy Ahwesh | USA | 2001 | 15’ | ||
| Two Horizons | Saodat Ismailova | Uzbekistan | 2017 | 24’ | ||
| They Parlaient Idéale | Laure Prouvost | France, Italy | 2019 | 29’ | ||
| Forensickness | Lého Galibert-Laîné | France | 2020 | 41’ | ||