Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist (1st)
We will release a shortlist from among the entries for the Academy Awards® eligible categories (Live-action Competition, Animation competition, and Non-fiction competition) for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024.
In August, we received a total of 826 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada as well as entries from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal. 40% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers, 27% from first time filmmakers, 25 % were student projects. Regarding duration, 51 % were under 15 min, 22 % were under 10min, and 7 % were under 5 min. We have received many submissions about family dramas, human connections, and films that deal with loneliness. Other stories were about facing sickness, family relations, friendships and broken relations. Of course, there were coming of age and first love stories. So, despite the fact that we live in a world where technology is changing our lifestyle, our essence as humans are still our emotions, our senses and feelings!
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〜SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist(1st)～
~ 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 | ||
| A Bird Called Memory | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil |
| A Moment Frozen | Jack Wake-Walker | United Kingdom |
| A Short Trip | Erenik Beqiri | France |
| À toi les oreilles | Alexandre Isabelle | Canada |
| A very nice guy | Minerva R. Bolanos | Mexico |
| Bolero | Nans Laborde-Jourdàa | France |
| Cantata | Dave Fox | Ireland |
| Come nei rami la pioggia | Yuri Casagrande Conti | Italy |
| Dead Cat | Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet | Canada |
| Death to the Bikini! | Justine Gauthier | Canada |
| Food for a Trash Bird | Leevi Axel Pellas | Finland |
| Fortissimo | Victor Cesca | France |
| GEORGE | Gregg Chilingirian | United Kingdom |
| Hedgehog’s dilemma | Mateusz Rybiński | Poland |
| KEEP | Lewis Rose | United Kingdom |
| L’âge acrobatique | Mathieu Barbet | France |
| Leaf | Thom Lunshof | Netherlands |
| Lia IRL | Milda Baginskaite | United Kingdom |
| Little Queen | Julien Guetta | France |
| Matterhorn | Anne Madeleine Mancosu | United Kingdom |
| More Than Friends | Omri Laron | Israel |
| My Tomato Heart | Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard | Canada |
| Of(f)love | Alba Pino | Spain |
| Offline | Mauritz Brekke Solberg, Daniel Fure Schwarz | Norway |
| Olga’s eyes | Sarah Carlot Jaber | Belgium |
| Palestine Islands | Nour Ben Salem, Julien Menanteau | France |
| Queen Size | Avril Besson | France |
| Red, White and Blue | Nazrin Choudhury | United States |
| Ryan Can’t Read | Rhys Chapman | United Kingdom |
| Sevap/Mitzvah | Sabina Vajrača | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Soles | Kalani Gacon | Australia |
| Stranger | Jehnny Beth, Iris Chassaigne | France |
| Summer 2000 | Virginie Nolin, Laurence Olivier | Canada |
| The Birthday Party | Francesco Sossai | Germany |
| The Hereafter | Ryan Noufer | United States |
| The Last Slice of Rainbow | Jacopo Ramella Pajrin, Roberto Marra | Italy |
| The Longest Night | Can Merdan Dogan | Turkey |
| The Skates | Halima Ouardiri | Canada |
| The Woodland | Firas Al-Taybeh | Jordan |
| TIMIS | Awa MOCTAR GUEYE | Senegal |
| TITS | Eivind Landsvik | Norway |
| Transylvanie | Rodrigue Huart | France |
| Wife Carrying | Mathias Rifkiss, Colas Rifkiss | France |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| Burning Blue | Ezra Cecio | Indonesia |
| Chuff Chuff Chuff | Koi Wang Chao | Macao |
| Coal | Saman Lotfian | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| DANCE GENTLY | ZeRui Guo | China |
| It Rains When It Will | Zhixin Vanessa Cheng | China |
| KHOWAB: Castle in the Air | Hemanta Sadeeq | Bangladesh |
| Life of Cloud | Wylie, Wai Yee Chan | Hong Kong |
| LUA | Mai Huyen Chi | Viet Nam |
| Maybe Next Time | Shang-jen Wu | Taiwan |
| Negative Space | Jeonghui An | Korea, Republic of |
| NEHEMICH | Yudhajit Basu | India |
| NO PLACE FOR OLD MEN | Anson Chu | Hong Kong |
| Painting | Shann-Jiun You | Taiwan |
| Passing | Gisela Levy | Indonesia |
| Primetime Mother | Sonny Calvento | Philippines |
| Real Talk | Wei Kai Huang | China |
| Red Fruit,Blue Sea | Rosing Mao | China |
| The First Film | Piyush Thakur | India |
| The ghost fire | Zhan YANG | China |
| The Nap | Joonseong Ahn | Korea, Republic of |
| The Steak | Kiarash Dadgar Mohebi | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| The Storm | Tang Wendi | China |
| The Sun In My Heart | Yao Ge | China |
| Titanic, suitable version for Iranian families | Farnoosh Samadi | France |
| Treasure by the River | Hanjie Bao & Manting Huang | China |
| Two Funerals | Huawei Sun | China |
| UFO | Hamid Hosseini & Mehdi Hosseini | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| What If | Yanghuixiao Gao | China |
| Wooden Toilet | Zuri Rinpoche | Bhutan |
| XO | Samrat DasGupta | India |
| You’re Happy, It’s Okay | Laura Low | Malaysia |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| The New World | Tomomi Muraguchi | Japan |
| ITAKO | Yuta Tanno | Japan |
| Oyu | Atsushi Hirai | France/Japan |
| Shoe Lover | Saki Matsumoto | Japan |
| Like a planet | SHEIKH M Haris | Japan |
| Minamoto | Takuya Mera | Japan |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| A Crab in the Pool | Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel | Canada |
| BOG | Éabha Bortolozzo & Jack Kirwan | Ireland |
| Bye Bear | Jan Blitzer | Germany |
| CYCLEPATHS | Anton Cla | Belgium |
| Dar Saaye Sarv | Shirin Sohani & Hossein Molayemi | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Dodo | Yi Luo | Germany |
| EASTER | André Ruivo | Portugal |
| ever ReDreamer | Ishizuka Eisuke | Japan |
| Holy Men | David Lovric | Croatia |
| Margarethe 89 | Lucas Malbrun | France |
| PURGA | Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė & Antanas Skučas | Lithuania |
| Quem Salva | Laure Devin, Maxime Bourstin, Nathan Medam, Charles Hechinger & Titouan Jaouen | France |
| Saleeg | Afnan Bawyan | Saudi Arabia |
| She and Her Good Vibrations | Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok | Singapore |
| Spring | Pernille Kjaer | Denmark |
| Sweet Like Lemons | Jenny Jokela | United Kingdom |
| Tapir Memories | Pedro Nel Cabrera Vanegas | Switzerland |
| Temporarily Removed | Dotan Goldwaser & Yoav Brill | Israel |
| The Garden of Heart | Olivér Hegyi | Hungary |
| THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES | Armine Anda | Armenia |
| Wedding on the Execution Ground | Zilai Feng | United States |
| Worry World | Jessica Patterson | Ireland |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| ALFRED | Nikolas Meyberg | Germany |
| Di Sarno- The story of Emilio’s Ballato | Johannes Kroemer & Lou Carvell | United States |
| Fragments | Marie-Lou Béland | Canada |
| Jack and Sam | Jordan Matthew Horowitz | United States |
| Mercy | Xinyue Wu | United States |
| Pitch Black | Guillym Davenport | Australia |
| Quoting Masterpieces | Davidse Koert | Netherlands |
| Rising Nations | Michael Kirby Smith | United States |
| She Sings for the World | Beau Han Bridge | Canada |
| The Waiting | Voker Schlecht | Germany |
| Then Comes The Body | Jacob Krupnick | United States |
| Tracing Imperfection | Chehade Boulos | United States |
| The Journey | The Future of Kazakh Nomads | Kazuya Isobe | Mongolia/Japan |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2024 and will be uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April, 2024. This month’s shortlist is mainly for films submitted by the end of August, but the timing of the announcements may vary.