Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2023 shortlist (2nd)
Since August, 2021, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia began releasing a shortlist from among the entries for the five Academy Awards® eligible categories (International, Asia International, Japan, Animation, & Non-fiction) for the following year’s festival. For next year’s SSFF & Asia 2023, in September this year, we received a total of 1190 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and from China, Korean, Iran, & Taiwan in Asia. About 40% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers and 30% from first time filmmakers. Due to the continued impact of the Covid crisis, there were many shorts with the theme of connections among people, on the Internet through online meetings and apps, as well as coming-of-age, adolescent friendships.
https://www.shortshorts.org/creators/en 〜SSFF & ASIS 2023 shortlist(2nd)～ ~ The name of the film, the director name, and the country name will be listed in alphabetical order by category ~
| Title | Director | Country of Origin |
| ■International／Live-action Competition | ||
| 39 | Martín Delfino Guevara | Spain |
| À LA VIE À L’AMOR | Emilie Mannering | Canada |
| A Shore Away (L’autre rive) | Gaëlle Graton | Canada |
| All-inclusive | Duván Duque Vargas | France |
| Aspan | Wahlberg Cornelia | Sweden |
| Bergie | Dian Weys | South Africa |
| Bibimbap for One | Ella Greenwood | United Kingdom |
| Boys’ Things | Raquel Colera | Spain |
| Buffer Zone | Savvas Stavrou | United Kingdom |
| Datsun | Mark Albiston | New Zealand |
| Ditch | Nellie Carrier | Canada |
| EL GRILLO | Carlos Hernandez Vazquez | Mexico |
| Everything At Once | Henrik Dyb Zwart | Norway |
| Face Not Recognized. Try Again. | Also Sisters | Spain |
| Favour on the Fourth Floor | Harry Quinlan | Australia |
| The Sky is Falling | Chait Shira | Israel |
| Have a Nice day Forever | Tatiana Delaunay | Norway |
| Hot Rod | Juliette Gilot | France |
| La Poule Noire | Clauzel Marion | France |
| Lothar 1999 | Marie Rosselet-Ruiz | France |
| MERCURE | Dronne Stephanie | France |
| More than Hair | Fitch Jean | Canada |
| My Girl Friend | Kawthar Younis | Egypt |
| On my father’s grave | Jawahine ZENTAR | France |
| On the Edge | Matteo Sanders | Austria |
| Our Males and Females | Ahmad Alyaseer | Jordan |
| PALMA | Mónica Santos | Portugal |
| Paloquemao | Jeferson Cardoza Herrera | Colombia |
| Rest | Pascal Glatz | Switzerland |
| Plurabelle | Amaral Sacha | Argentina |
| Resurrection | Luiza Budejko | Poland |
| Rites | Damián Vondrášek | Czech Republic |
| Simo | Aziz Zoromba | Canada |
| The Code of Family | Kayla Sun | United States |
| The good father | Jorge Cañada Escorihuela | Spain |
| The Lone Wolf | Filipe Melo | Portugal |
| The Sun Sets on Beirut | Daniela Stephan | United Kingdom |
| THE VAN | BERNARD BADION | United States |
| THURSDAY | Bren Cukier | Poland |
| U.N. Slap Commission | Kämpf Stephan, Burkhardt Valentin | Germany |
| Video Funeral | Linh Tran | United States |
| Virga | Jean-François Leblanc | Canada |
| Vortex | Guilherme Branquinho | Portugal |
| We’re Too Good For This | Missy Malek | United Kingdom |
| Whale | Lorna Fitzsimons | Ireland |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| A lullaby for yellow roses (Sub Eng) | Rahul Roye | India |
| Acid Base | Shirin Ekhlasi | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Big Day | Chiang Chung-Chieh | Taiwan |
| Cut | Min-Zun Son | South Korea |
| DANCING COLORS | Fahriyansyah M. Reza | Indonesia |
| Further and Further Away | Polen Ly | Cambodia |
| Graveyard of Horses | Xiaoxuan Jiang | China |
| LAST DAYS OF SUMMER | Stenzin Tankong | India |
| My Mother, At The Beach | Desmond NG | Indonesia |
| Rule | Yitong Liu | China |
| Shar Avtobus (Yellow Bus) | Purevdash Zoljargal | Mongolia |
| Sunflower | Benson Koo | Hong Kong |
| The Golden Hour | Young KIM | South Korea |
| The House of Brick and Stone | Ananth Subramaniam | Malaysia |
| Towards the Night | Saeid Keshavarz | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Tuo Tuo | An Chu | Taiwan |
| Will You Look At Me | Shuli Huang | China |
| you are my ocean | Donglin Liu | China |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| A TINY MAN | Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin | France |
| Color-less | Estefanía Piñeres Duque | Colombia |
| Death of The Gods | Leto Stojanovic Meade | United Kingdom |
| El After del Mundo | Florentina Gonzalez | France |
| Friendly Fire | Tom Koryto Blumen | Israel |
| Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez | Portugal |
| La tielle sétoise | MAZARS Lucy, PASCAL Aurélien, ROUSSEL Clara, KINOWSKI Thomas, BORSCIA Carla, JAIN Amish, BOURGOUIN Joris | France |
| Magnified City | Isaku Kaneko | Japan |
| MARONII | ALLONNEAU Dimitri, GUITET Maxime, PLATA Lucas, Nguyen Ngoc Mai, Matuszczak Guilian | France |
| Mosaic | Eleonora Berra | Switzerland |
| Salvation Has No Name | Joseph Wallace | United Kingdom |
| The Bridge | Izumi Yoshida | Poland |
| The Garbage Man | Laura Gonçalves | Portugal |
| The House of Loss | Jinkyu Jeon | Japan |
| The Legend of Goldhorn | Lea Vucko | Slovenia |
| The Pink Jacket | Mónica Santos | Portugal |
| Think something nice | Gentinetta Claudius | Switzerland |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Eco-Hack! | Marty Brett, Izenberg Josh | United States of America |
| Dream on Leon | Roger Gariépy | Canada |
| Hardcore | Adán Aliaga | Spain |
| Queer Mongol | Brandt Miller | United States |
| PUNISHMENT ISLAND | Matt Bish | Uganda |
| Requiem for a Whale | Ido Weisman | Israel |
| The Other Side of Paradise | Elliott Watson | United Kingdom |
| The Rohingya Photographer | Abolfazl Talooni, Anna Snowball | United Kingdom |
| Washers for Rent | Jeferson Romero | Colombia |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| “BORDER” | Mai Nakanishi | South Korea , Japan |
| 待ち人来たらず | Junichi Shikano | Japan |
| Falling in Love with A♯ | Kohei Hirota | Japan |
| Mirai To Future | Erika Nakayama | Japan |
| Rainbow Honey | Keiko Umenoki | Japan |
| Taiyo | Kensaku Kakimoto | Japan |