Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist (2nd)
We are releasing 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 September, we received a total of 1185 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, Republic of Korea, Spain, Japan, and France, as well as Nigeria, Qatar, and Montenegro. 36% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers, 28% from first time filmmakers, & 27 % were student projects. Regarding film genres, we received many comedies as well as human dramas. Musical films are particularly trending right now. Also films about aliens are another trend. But these stories are not about aliens invading the Earth, or war with space aliens like in the past sci-fi films. These are stories about our daily lives while on a planet with other “alien” species. The films are metaphors of how we as society need to learn to live and accept the diversity of our own world, to live in peace with all our differences.
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〜SSFF & ASIA 2024 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 | ||
| 2720 | Basil da Cunha | Portugal |
| Agnus Day | Giuseppe Isoni | Italy |
| An Afternoon Punch-Up (Un après-midi à se fesser dessus) | Garance Chagnon-Grégoire | Canada |
| Ashen (Cenizo) | Gustavo Hernández de Anda | Mexico |
| Be Right Back (Ahora vuelvo) | Lucas Paulin & Gabe Ibáñez | Spain |
| Brand New | Quincy Ledbetter & Denzel Whitaker | United States |
| Bunk | Piotr Jasiński | Czech Republic |
| Complications (Komplikasjoner) | Ivar Aase | Norway |
| Digital Diary | Yasmine Scheft | Israel |
| Empty Your Pockets | Tara Aghdashloo | Canada |
| Furious (Furieuses) | Thomas Vernay | France |
| Handyman | William Findinge | Denmark |
| HARD TO SWALLOW (TIRÉE PAR LES CHEVEUX) | Magali Miniac | France |
| I Come from the Sea | Feyrouz Serhal | Lebanon |
| INTELLIGENCE | Jeanne Frenkel & Cosme Castro | France |
| Mussol | Juanjo Giménez | Spain |
| My Week with Maisy | Mika Simmons | United Kingdom |
| Nélida | Marina Artigas & Celeste Lois | Uruguay |
| On Fumes | Zhengyi Liu | United States |
| Paper | Charles Wahl | Canada |
| Power Signal | Oscar Boyson | United States |
| Quiet Night Thought (静夜思) | Yuxin Cao | Australia |
| Shooting Watermelons | Antonio Donato | United Kingdom |
| Sushi | Iván Morales | Spain |
| The things to come (L’avenir) | Santiago Ráfales | Spain |
| Unibrow | Nedda Sarshar | Canada |
| White Ant | Shalini Adnani | United Kingdom |
| Yaya (Yaya Libre) | Leticia Akel Escárate | Chile |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| Back to Work (落跑佳麗) | Zoe Chang | Taiwan |
| Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia |
| Cross My Heart and Hope To Die | Sam Manacsa | Philippines |
| Death Anniversary (سالمرگ) | Armin Keshvari | Iran |
| Maybe Someday (Kala Nanti) | Praditha Blifa | Indonesia |
| Red Envelope | Tami N/A Xu | Taiwan |
| Seeding, Blossoming, Fruiting (像花儿一样) | Junsong Ling | China |
| The Witness Tree (साक्षी-रूख) | Niranjan Raj Bhetwal | Nepal |
| What are you thinking? (무슨 생각) | Yeonsung HWANG | Korea, Republic of |
| YOU WILL SEE | KATHLEEN BU | Singapore |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| 「鮮やかに笑ってくれ」 | Reika Nishihata | Japan |
| 一途 | Koichi Yamashina | Japan |
| fold a lie | Hiroki Sato | Japan |
| salty blue | Masashi Sogawa | Japan |
| cafune | Sara Masuda | Japan |
| Catch up | Hironori Kujiraoka | Japan |
| くそくらえ！ | Miyamoto Kosei | Japan |
| FAAAWWW!!! | Koji Oniki | Japan |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| About a cow | Pavla Baštanová | Czech Republic |
| COLD SOUP (Sopa Fria) | Marta Monteiro | Portugal |
| Crush | Michal Socha & Jakub Socha | Poland |
| GOODBYE MY WORLD (AU REVOIR MON MONDE) | Estelle Bonnardel, Quentin Devred, Baptiste Duchamps, Maxime Foltzer, Florian Maurice & Astrid Novais | France |
| I Saw a Ghost, and It Was Beautiful | Bobby Fernando | Indonesia |
| Long Distance | Nadja Tanno | Switzerland |
| Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti | Canada |
| Nube | Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada | Mexico |
| SEPIA NOTES | Fumiko Kumagai | Japan |
| Sheep Out | Zofia Klamka | Poland |
| Sheep Story | Rakel Andrésdóttir | Czech Republic |
| SILHOUETTE | Alexis Lafuente, Baptiste Gueusquin, Elliot Dreuille, Marc Forest & Antoni Nicolaï | France |
| The First Metahuman | Yi Le | Norway |
| The Illustrated Woman (La Mujer Ilustrada) | Isabel Herguera | Spain |
| Where Rabbits Come From | Colin Ludvic Racicot | Canada |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Black Crowns (Coronas Negras) | André Lô Sánchez | Mexico |
| (دارتاش) Carpenter | Xelîl Sehragerd | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Crooked (Torcidos) | Charlie García Villalba | Spain |
| Fugue | Maria Alice Arida | Brazil |
| The People of the Great River | Ayumi Miyano | Ireland |
| Life as usual | Yuichiro Yamada | Japan |
| The Eyeball Person | Yuri Muraoka | Japan |
| 酪農家最後の日〜世話になった命をいただく〜 | Hitoshi Fujio | 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 September, but the timing of the announcements may vary.