Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2023 Shortlist (#3)
Since August, 2021, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia began releasing a shortlist every month 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 25th Anniversary edition of the SSFF & Asia 2023, in October this year, we received a total of 470 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, France, Spain, and China. About 40% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers and 30% from first time filmmakers. There were many dramas about immigration issues & its trials & tribulations. Many stories were of the female experience such as postpartum depression, anxiety, & fatigue through the eyes of new mothers. As usual, we are receiving outstanding short films in the Non-fiction & Animation competitions with France especially coming on strong with animated works.
Now only one month remaining until the submission deadline. We’re looking forward to many more submissions from you. Get them in before the rush!
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〜SSFF & ASIS 2023 shortlist(3rd)～
~ 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 | ||
| Androgenic Alopecia | Salvador Sunyer | Spain |
| Captive | Preston Peterson, Jason Boesch | United States |
| CARLA | Guemra Kamel | France |
| Endless Sea | Sam Shainberg | United States |
| ESTRELLAS DEL DESIERTO | Katherina Harder Sacre | Chile |
| Eternal Happiness | Isa Luengo, Sofia Esteve | Spain |
| Facies | Carlos Moriana, Raúl Cerezo | Spain |
| Found You | Ragne Mandri | Estonia |
| Fresh | Marie-Julie Baup | France |
| Iago and Tristan | Miguel Ibáñez Monroy | Spain |
| In The Long Run | Yousef Assabahi | Yemen |
| My Name is Arnold | Arnold Lim | Canada |
| Quiet | Hèctor Romance | Andorra |
| Sparrow | Marcin Janos Krawczyk | Poland |
| The Ballad of Maddog Quinn | Matt Inns | New Zealand |
| The Old Young Crow | Liam LoPinto | United States |
| THE SHIFT | Amalie Maria | Denmark |
| Yama | Andreas Vakalios | Greece |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| A Roadside Banquet – AFI Thesis | Peiqi Peng | China |
| East Coker | Wang Hanxuan | China |
| Fly Away, Bird | Romil Kumar Jain | India |
| Kwits | de la Torre Raz | Philippines |
| Morning Begins at 4:30 | Ivan Law | China |
| On Up The Forking Road | ZHENGYU JI | China |
| School Uniform | Ye-ram KIM | Korea, Republic of |
| seven minutes and thirty-one seconds | Solmaz Gholami | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Silkworm. | Amir Honarmand | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Unfamiliar Familiar | Hae-Sup Sin | South Korea / Switzerland |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| Kaiju Girl | Takafumi Sakabe | Japan |
| Scapegoat | Shun Tachizono | Japan |
| Serpent in a woman | Rie Sasaki | Japan |
| When She Dresses Up | Yoshika Nakayama | Japan |
| たまには船にでも乗ろうか | Yosuke Sumi | Japan |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| Ashkasha | Lara Maltz | Spain |
| ECHOES | IVÁN ORDÁS | Spain |
| Epicenter | Hee-yoon Hahm | Korea, Republic of |
| ROALD | BIGACHE Clara, CHAVALLE Laurent, CHENE Julie, CHOPINET Thibault, GAUCHERON Armand, LHEUREUX Alexis & PRONE Maxime | France |
| The Bolt’s Story | MohammadReza Alimorad | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| The Well | Peter Stanley-Ward | United Kingdom |
| TRAJECTOIRE | BEGUIN Guillaume, ESQUER Brice, HURTAK Nathalie, LAYRE Noemie, LONGO Serena, ROUSSEAU Leon, SAVARIT-BODIN Allan, WALLEZ Clement | France |
| Zoo | Tariq Rimawi | Jordan |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Black Summer | Felix Dierich | Germany |
| Lake of death and Devil’s Gold | Kazuya Isobe | Indonesia |
| The Re-education of Ji Zhihao | Tian Macleod Ji | United Kingdom |
| Ulf Nawrot – 40.000 Post-Its | Nolte Fabian | Germany |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2023 and will be uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April, 2023.This month’s shortlist is mainly for films submitted by the end of October, but the timing of the announcements may vary.