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SSFF & ASIA 2024 annonced the finalist of this year’s Global Spotlight Award.

This Award is given to a work that conveys the present of the world in a changing world and opens up new possibilities for a filmmaker and supports short films that unites the world.

Short film by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Eathan Hawke & Pedro Pascal, Stray Kids’ drama, Jean Luc Godar’s last one, and Oscar shortlisted short directed by Tom Stuart & starring Ben Whishaw are nominated this year. 

The focus is on the diverse and original ways of expression transmitted as ‘short films’, from masters such as Godard to young film-makers.

The award winner will be announce at the SSFF & ASIA 2024 Award Ceremony on June 4th.

＜Global Spotlight Award 2024 Noimination＞

『The Strange Way of Life』

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship

Director：Pedro Almodovar

Casts：Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal

Stray Kids ＜樂-STAR (ROCK-STAR)＞ SKZFLIX

Characters who followed a dream of making movies.
They become friends in a film club at university and end up making a short film.
Hidden secrets will be revealed on the screening day of the completed movie.

Director：BYEONGJUNE KIM

Casts：Bang Chan, Minho / Lee Know, Changbin, Jisung / HAN, Yongbok / Felix, Seungmin, Jeongin / I.N

『Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’』

Godard’s last film, a trailer for a movie that will never exist, shows a series of collages on what appears to be photographic paper, and is about Belgian surrealist/poet Charles Plisnier, who was expelled from the Communist party in 1937.

Director・Writer・Cast： Jean-Luc Godard

『Good Boy』

Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures from his past threaten to derail him at every turn.

Director：Tom Stuart

Casts：Ben Wishaw, Marion Bailey