Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2025 Shot List vol.4
We are excited to announce the 4th shortlist for the Academy Award®-eligible categories—Live-Action Competition, Animation Competition, and Non-Fiction Competition—at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025!
In November, we received a total of 530 entries. Notably, the United States accounted for 21% of submissions, followed by Japan (11%) and China (10%). We were also thrilled to receive entries from Malta, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia. Among these submissions, 5% were created by first-time filmmakers, 6% were student projects, and 25% were directed by filmmakers under the age of 30. Impressively, 45% of all entries were submitted to our Live-Action International Competition.
This month, we saw a remarkable number of comedy and romance films. In terms of genre, 60% of submissions were dramas, while 11% were comedies and 7% were romances. A trending theme this month was old vs. new—exploring the clash and conflict between generations.
~SSFF & ASIA 2025 Short List vol.4 ~
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 | ||
| The Translator | Nivetha Balasubramaniam | Denmark |
| Layers | Klil Kovesh | Israel |
| Naked Lights | Jeda de Brí | Ireland |
| Abu Judy | Adel Ahmed Yehia | Egypt |
| TUNNELS | Simon Ostermann | Germany |
| Play On | Tristan Lhomme | France |
| NOCES D’EAU | Aurielle JIOYA | Benin, Canada, France |
| Family Sunday | Gerardo Del Razo | Mexico |
| The man who could not remain silent | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia |
| First Horse | Awanui Simich-Pene | New Zealand |
| Jellyfish | Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta | Spain |
| Melanochaita | NIKO AVGOUSTIDI | Greece |
| We’re Here for You | Tatiana Delaunay | Norway |
| ■Asia | ||
| By hand | jun-sang YOU | Korea, Republic of |
| The Black Dog | Ling YANG | Taiwan |
| Yongky’s First Heartbeats | Giovanni Rustanto | Indonesia |
| RAZAA | Pooja Tolani | India |
| ■Animation | ||
| The Island | Sora | Japan |
| mackerel-man | Rintaro Uekawa | Japan |
| Inkwo for When the Starving Return | Amanda Strong | Canada |
| Walk In | Han-eol PARK | Korea, Republic of |
| Martha | Marcel BARELLI | Switzerland |
| ■Non Fiction | ||
| Recipe for Change | Alfredo Ruzol | Philippines |
| Creating the trees and the earth after a thousand years – SORA-SHI | Kouki Narita | Japan |
| A Color I Named Blue | Patrizia Sybilla | Japan |
| (I kiss your hand, madame) | Jeremy Luke Bolatag | Belgium, Hungary, Philippines, Portugal |
| Children of agave | Iván López-Barba | Mexico |
| Teenage Cowboy | Matteo Gariglio | Switzerland |
| Am I the skinniest person youÕve ever seen? | Eisha Marjara | Canada |
| The Detective’s Dream | Ryushi Lindsay | United Kingdom |
| ■Japan | ||
| for Dear Life | Hiroho Mieno | Japan |
| Still Water | Mei Henderson | Japan |
| Summer at Shared House Mebuki | Hiromi Nakane | Japan |
| NIGEMIZU | Akiko Isobe | Japan |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist will continue to be updated monthly until the end of March 2025, with the final list uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April 2025. This month’s shortlist mainly includes films submitted by the end of September, but the timing of announcements may vary.
We keep calling for the entry till Jan. 31, 2025.
https://app.lifelogbox.com/festival/shortshorts?tab=competition