Announcing the first SSFF & ASIA 2025 shortlist (nomination candidates)! ! | Short Shorts Film Festival & ASIA

SSFF & ASIA 2025 Shortlist
(Nomination candidates) Announcing the first round! !

2024/10/31
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Every month, we will announce a shortlist of nominees from among the works submitted in the Live Action, Animation, and Non-Fiction categories leading to the Academy Awards at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025.

A total of 845 works were submitted in August. The top five countries with the most applications were the United States, China, France, Canada, and Spain, with applications also coming from unusual countries such as Guyana, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. Thirty percent of all films are directed by women, 34% are first-time directors, 30% are student films, 58% are under 15 minutes, 28% are under 10 minutes, and 9% are under 5 minutes. The works also stood out. As in previous years, there were a large number of dramas, many of which dealt with themes such as family issues, illness, discrimination, immigration and refugee issues, and identity. Also, in the animation department, there were many works that utilized AI, and I got the impression that the use of AI is expanding in a wide range of areas, including not only animation, but also voice over, music, storyboards in pre-production, and color correction in post-production. .
~SSFF & ASIS 2025 Shortlist Part 1~

*Work title, director name, and country name are listed in alphabetical order by category.Title of work Supervisor Name of production countryInternationalA Burning TurretHumberto Flores MexicoA Whisper Starts a FireEduardo Moreno FernándezメキシコAdvanced €ttestupArjan VinjeNorwayCURA SANALucía G. RomeroスペインEighth Dimension (팔차원)Haneol LeeUSAFade to BlackGiovanni JannoniSwitzerlandFantasHalima ElkhatabiCanadaFarewell SongMauricio MolinaColombiaFuture is PanoramaMuschirf Shekh ZeynSyriaGender RevealMo MattonCanadaGoing DutchJack CoplandCanadaHymn of the PlaguePhilipp Ivanov & Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri GorbatyGermanyI See YouBriar Elizabeth MarchNew ZealandIn The FoldManuel Del ValleUSAMasterpiece MommyDorothy Sing ZhangUKNicaragua & UriarteTano Levi Argentinaperfectly a strangenessAlison McAlpineCanadaPUNTERJason Adam MaselleSouth AfricaScreentimeAlexandrena ParkerAustraliaShadowKamell AllawayUSASip and blowR.RuvensSpainTara.Fionntán LarneyIrelandTHE LAST COWBOY IN SALFORDJakob LancasterUKThe swimming poolSantiago Cardelús Ruiz-Alberdi, Pablo Manchado CascónスペインTHERE IS FIRESimon Leclercq, Thibault LeclercqThis Must Be LoveAndrew KavanaghAustraliaTurnaroundAisling ByrneIrelandUrbanLuso MartínezSpainWhy men live lessNikita BelykhRussiaZahraHadi Hasan ShatatヨルダンAsiaA Brighter Summer Day For The Lady AvengersBirdy Wei-Ting Hung台湾Black Scarf Ali Reza Shah HosseiniDamjiNazanin ChitsazIranDandelions GirlAzadeh MasihzadehIranDou (Dou Nu)Jing ZhaoChinaDragon Head Phoenix Tail BrowLi Lin WeeSingaporeHoly CurseSnigdha KapoorIndia & USAIn the Words of FirmanKurnia AlexanderIndonesiaJammedDyan Dumpangol MalaysiaLast Rain on my paradeHuu Thanh TranVietnamLink (링크)Jiwon KIMKoreaSheepHadi BabaefarIranThank You, DaisyDave TanSingaporeTouchMahyar HamidianIranVox HumanaDon Josephus Raphael EblahanPhilippinesAnimationDead weight Øyvind Tangseth NorwayEaster EggMassimo Carrier RagazziItalyHer Wish Baoxingchen YI ChinaHEY DAD (Hey, dad)WeiFan WangTaiwanhuman-faced Cockroach (《蛊》)Yinxue LiChinaKafka. In LoveZane OborenkoLatviaLavomatrixMatthieu Fulcheri, Simon Vernus, Mila Cottin, Martin Carvalho, Chloé Langlet, Lou-Eva GoimetフランスLong DistanceMichael FreiSwitzerlandMombomb, part 1Patricia Beckmann WellsUSAMûMalin NeumannGermanyOne Flew Over The Celestial PalaceSofia Wang中国PathsJordan NugemBrazilRetirement PlanJohn KellyIrelandRose RashThanut RujitanontThailandSublimeMarie Heribel, Candice Dalamux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas FoutrierフランスTennis, OrangesSean PecknoldUSABoxfish and Minamata Sea Inaba Takuya JapanTransformationMarcel BarsottiGermanyVoicelessSamuel PattheySwitzerlandNon FictionInside, The Valley SingsNathan FaganIrelandKentaroTilmann Stewart, Gaku MatsudaAustraliaMega FoundryYixin ZHANGChinaPassion and Tradition: Yonabaru’s Grand Tug-of-War, Okinawa JapanYuichi IshidaJapanThird Generation Kayli Kimura AmericaThe Earthy KingdomThanh Duy TranVietnamTsumugu Shiiki Toko AmericaWho loves the sunArshia ShakibaCanadaJapanGreen Age Higashimoto Niei JapanThe Sleigh Bride Yoshiro Aisaka JapanEmergency exit Yamada Gentoku Japan

Yoko Kamijo Daisuke Japan

Winning candidate works (shortlist) will be announced at the end of the second month following the application month.

The films selected for the film festival (to be screened at the film festival) will be selected from the shortlist that will be announced monthly until the end of March 2025, and will be announced on the film festival’s official website by the end of April 2025. I will.

This month’s announcements mainly target works submitted by the end of August, but the timing of announcements may be delayed depending on circumstances.

■SSFF & ASIA 2025 public recruitment site