Ruun Nuur

Ruun Nuur nam deel aan de poll “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, een unieke publieksbevraging als collectieve liefdesbrief aan de kunst van de korte film. yanco en Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in samenwerking met Talking Shorts, nodigden filmmakers, curatoren, distributeurs, critici en academici wereldwijd uit om tien audiovisuele werken van minder dan zestig minuten te nomineren die zij persoonlijk beschouwen als de “beste” aller tijden. Dit was de inzending van Ruun Nuur:

I’m still processing what it means to participate in something as simultaneously serious and unserious as a canon. Lists like these are less about verdicts and more about conversation...or perhaps an ongoing exercise in curiosity and perceived excellence. My great hope is that we all keep watching more short films, across eras, languages, and lineages, and stay grateful to be living in a time when cinema — in all its forms — is more accessible, shareable, and democratized than ever before :) <3

— Ruun Nuur
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Seashell Aleel Abdulkadir Ahmed Said Somalië, Italië 1992 23’

A haunting and stunning ecological allegory and cornerstone of Somali cinema, Aleel (Seashell) evokes memory and myth through sound and sea, asserting film as a vessel of environmental and cultural consciousness... and power of making during times of conflict.
They Do Not Exist ليس لهم وجود Mustafa Abu Ali Palestina 1974 26’

Made in defiance of Golda Meir’s claim that “there were no such things as the Palestinians,” They Do Not Exist is both document and declaration. Filmed under siege in Lebanon by Mustafa Abu Ali and a small collective that included Sulafa Jadallah—one of the first Arab women behind the camera—the film captures the rhythms of refugee life and the persistence of resistance. Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut and later screened clandestinely in Jerusalem, where Abu Ali was “smuggled” in to attend, the film endures as both testimony and act of survival. “We used to say ‘Art for the Struggle,’” he reflected that night, “now it’s ‘Struggle for the Art.’”
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
The Eloquent Peasant شكاوى الفلاح الفصيح Shadi Abdel Salam Egypte 1970 21’

Adapting a 4,000-year-old tale, Abdel Salam crafts a timeless parable of justice and eloquence, fusing ancient Egyptian art and modern cinematic language.
Borom sarret The Wagoner Ousmane Sembène Frankrijk, Senegal 1963 18’
America Garrett Bradley Verenigde Staten 2019 30’

I will never forget seeing this film at its world premiere at Sundance and being completely gobsmacked. I still feel utterly grateful for the opportunity to witness to such a phenomenal piece of moving image and live in the same timeline as Garrett Bradley.
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren Verenigde Staten 1946 14’
Black Panthers Agnès Varda Frankrijk 1968 28’

Varda captures the 1968 Oakland rallies for Huey P. Newton with vivid immediacy, merging radical politics with her singular humanist lens. One of thee greatest visual time capsules that are still cited and used to educate the masses on the impact of the Black Panther Party.
Something Good – Negro Kiss William Nicholas Selig Verenigde Staten 1898 1’

Rediscovered and restored in 2017, this brief kiss between Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown is one of cinema’s earliest and most tender portrayals of Black intimacy.
Cycles Zeinabu Irene Davis Verenigde Staten 1989 17’