Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2025 shortlist (1st)
We will release a shortlist from among the entries for the Academy Award(R) eligible categories (Live-action Competitions, Animation Competition, and Non-fiction Competition) for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025.
In August, we received a total of 845 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, China, France, Canada, and Spain as well as entries from Guyana, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Venezuela, Costa Rica and others. 30% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers, 34% from first time filmmakers and 30 % were student projects.
Also 58 % were under 15 min, 28 % were under 10min, and 9 % were under 5 min. Popular theme of the works are about dramas of family conflicts, illnesses as well as discrimination, refugees, immigrants and identities.
Also, AI generated films including not only for animation, but also for voice overs, music, storyboards in pre-production, and color correction in post-production stood out.
〜SSFF & ASIA 2025 shortlist(1st)～
~ The name of the film, the director name, and the country name will be listed in alphabetical order by category
| Project Title | Directors | Country of Origin |
| International | ||
| A Burning Turret | Humberto Flores | MEXICO |
| A Whisper Starts a Fire | Eduardo Moreno Fernández | MEXICO |
| Advanced ttestup | Arjan Vinje | NORWAY |
| CURA SANA | Lucía G. Romero | SPAIN |
| Eighth Dimension | Haneol Lee | UNITED STATES |
| Fade to Black | Giovanni Jannoni | SWITZERLAND |
| Fantas | Halima Elkhatabi | CANADA |
| Farewell Song | Mauricio Molina | COLOMBIA |
| Future is Panorama | Muschirf Shekh Zeyn | SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC |
| Gender Reveal | Mo Matton | CANADA |
| Going Dutch | Jack Copland | CANADA |
| Hymn of the Plague | Philipp Ivanov & Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri Gorbaty | GERMANY |
| I See You | Briar Elizabeth March | NEW ZEALAND |
| In The Fold | Manuel Del Valle | UNITED STATES |
| Masterpiece Mommy | Dorothy Sing Zhang | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Nicaragua & Uriarte | Tano Levi | ARGENTINA |
| perfectly a strangeness | Alison McAlpine | CANADA |
| PUNTER | Jason Adam Maselle | SOUTH AFRICA |
| Screentime | Alexandrena Parker | AUSTRALIA |
| Shadow | Kamell Allaway | UNITED STATES |
| Sip and blow | R. Ruvens | SPAIN |
| Tara. | Fionntán Larney | IRELAND |
| THE LAST COWBOY IN SALFORD | Jakob Lancaster | UNITED KINGDOM |
| The swimming pool | Santiago Cardelús Ruiz-Alberdi, Pablo Manchado Cascón | SPAIN |
| THERE IS FIRE | Simon LECLERCQ, Thibault LECLERCQ | FRANCE |
| This Must Be Love | Andrew Kavanagh | AUSTRALIA |
| Turnaround | Aisling Byrne | IRELAND |
| Urban | Luso Martínez | SPAIN |
| Why men live less | Nikita Belykh | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
| Zahra | Hadi Hasan Shatat | JORDAN |
| Asia | ||
| A Brighter Summer Day For The Lady Avengers | Birdy Wei-Ting Hung | TAIWAN |
| Black Scarf | Ali Reza Shah Hosseini | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Damji | Nazanin Chitsaz | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Dandelions Girl | Azadeh Masihzadeh | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Dou | Jing Zhao | CHINA |
| Dragon Head Phoenix Tail Brow | Li Lin Wee | SINGAPORE |
| Holy Curse | Snigdha Kapoor | INDIA, UNITED STATES |
| In the Words of Firman | Kurnia Alexander | INDONESIA |
| Jammed | Dyan Dumpangol | MALAYSIA |
| Last Rain on my parade | Huu Thanh Tran | VIETNAM |
| Link | Jiwon KIM | KOREA |
| Sheep | Hadi Babaeifar | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Thank You, Daisy | Dave Tan | SINGAPORE |
| Touch | Mahyar Hamidian | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Vox Humana | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | PHILIPPINES |
| Animation | ||
| Dead weight | Øyvind Tangseth | NORWAY |
| Easter Egg | Massimo Carrier Ragazzi | ITALY |
| Her Wish | Baoxingchen YI | CHINA |
| HEY DAD | WeiFan Wang | TAIWAN |
| human-faced Cockroach | Yinxue Li | CHINA |
| Kafka. In Love | Zane Oborenko | LATVIA |
| Lavomatrix | Matthieu Fulcheri, Simon Vernus, Mila Cottin, Martin Carvalho, Chloé Langlet, Lou-Eva Goimet | FRANCE |
| Long Distance | Michael Frei | SWITZERLAND |
| Mombomb, part 1 | Patricia Beckmann Wells | UNITED STATES |
| Mû | Malin Neumann | GERMANY |
| One Flew Over The Celestial Palace | Sofia Wang | CHINA |
| Paths | Jordan Nugem | BRAZIL |
| Retirement Plan | John Kelly | IRELAND |
| Rose Rash | Thanut Rujitanont | THAILAND |
| Sublime | Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier | FRANCE |
| Tennis, Oranges | Sean Pecknold | UNITED STATES |
| The Boxfish and the Sea of Minamata | Takuya Inaba | JAPAN |
| Transformation | Marcel Barsotti | GERMANY |
| Voiceless | Samuel Patthey | SWITZERLAND |
| Non Fiction | ||
| Inside, The Valley Sings | Nathan Fagan | IRELAND |
| Kentaro | Tilmann Stewart, Gaku Matsuda | AUSTRALIA |
| Mega Foundry | Yixin ZHANG | CHINA |
| Passion and Tradition: Yonabaru’s Grand Tug-of-War, Okinawa Japan | Yuichi Ishida | JAPAN |
| sansedai | Kayli Kimura | UNITED STATES |
| The Earthy Kingdom | Thanh Duy Tran | VIETNAM |
| Tsumugu: Spinning of the Thread of Life | Toko Shiiki | UNITED STATES |
| Who loves the sun | Arshia Shakiba | CANADA |
| Japan | ||
| GreenAge | Jinei Toumoto | JAPAN |
| The Bride Who Rides A Sleigh | Yoshiro Osaka | JAPAN |
| emergency exit | Gentoku Yamada | JAPAN |
| YOKO | Daisuke Kamijo | JAPAN |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2025 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.