Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2025 Shot List vol.3
We will release a shortlist from among the October entries for the Academy Award® eligible categories (Live-action Competitions, Animation Competition, and Non-fiction Competition) for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025.
In October, we received a total of 351 entries. Notably, many entries came from the United States (15%), followed by France (12%) and China (7%). We were thrilled to receive submissions from Ecuador and Zimbabwe. Of the submitted films, 6.3% were created by first-time filmmakers, and 5.4% were student projects. Additionally, 22% of the films were directed by filmmakers under the age of 30. Again, a notable 45% of the entries were submitted to our live-action International Competition.
October did not disappoint, and in honor of the season, we received a notable number of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi films. Regarding genre and duration, 67% of the submitted films were dramas, and 9% belonged to the horror genre. A trending theme this month was the coming-of-age films, and the carefree days of an endless summer.
~SSFF & ASIA 2025 Short List vol.3 ~
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 | ||
| Cataratas | Francisco Bendomir | ARGENTINA |
| Find the boy | Paulin.e Goasmat | FRANCE |
| Leg of a Salesman | Ryan Williams | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Little Victories | Rafaël Beauchamp | CANADA |
| MAGID / ZAFAR | Luís Hindman | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Moderator | Eli Staub | UNITED STATES |
| My little girl | Chloé Jouannet | FRANCE |
| Peaches | Tajim Mohammed-Kapa | NEW ZEALAND |
| Pura Vida Ibiza | Jens Schillmöller | GERMANY |
| RISE | Jessica J. Rowlands | ZIMBABWE |
| SAVERIO film | Ellen Ancui | UNITED STATES |
| Silverfish | Hussein Nakhal | LEBANON |
| The Green Country | Silvia Rossi | Norway |
| The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste | Pernell Marsden | AUSTRALIA |
| THE PEARL COMB | Ali Cook | UNITED KINGDOM |
| The Truck | Elizabeth Rao | UNITED STATES |
| THE WILDE SISTERS | Táine King | IRELAND |
| Three Little Jerks | Emile Garçon | FRANCE |
| Three Screaming Vaginas | Alexia Roc | CANADA |
| Zoé | Rémi St-Michel | CANADA |
| Asia | ||
| Father’s Farm | JUHANG RYU | Korea, Republic of |
| Lost in the strait | Haoran Liu | CHINA |
| My Paws Are Soft, My Bones Are Heavy | Garry Christian | INDONESIA |
| Nice to See You | Stanley Hao Wen Yu | HONG KONG |
| See You One Last Time | Chenxu Yu | CHINA |
| TASTE OF TEA | PO-YU LIN | CHINA |
| The Eyes | Jing Yu | CHINA |
| WATERMAN | Vishwas K | INDIA |
| Animation | ||
| Caries | Aline Höchli | SWITZERLAND |
| Éiru | Giovanna Ferrari | IRELAND |
| Feet in water | Éloïc Gimenez Yoon | FRANCE |
| Gilbert | Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez | SPAIN |
| LEON ET LE PROFESSEUR | CHEKWUBE OKONKWO | NIGERIA |
| Les Bêtes | Michael Granberry | UNITED STATES |
| Sisowath quay | Stephanie Lansaque, François Leroy | FRANCE |
| There will be no other end | Piotr Milczarek | POLAND |
| When it comes (it will have your eyes) | Izibene Oñederra | SPAIN |
| Non Fiction | ||
| Apocalypse | Benoit Méry | FRANCE |
| BUTTS | Clarissa Jacobson, Shayna Weber | UNITED STATES |
| Call Dad | Max Fernandez | Finland |
| Festival | Tomoki Yamakawa | JAPAN |
| Japan | ||
| ABYSS | Tekkou Nogami | JAPAN |
| SIDE STEP GIRL | Kazuya Miyata | JAPAN |
| Bowl Meets Girl | Shunta Seki | JAPAN |
| (M)other | Masashi Sogawa | 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, 2025.This month’s shortlist is mainly for films submitted by the end of September, but the timing of
the announcements may vary.
We keep calling for the entry till Jan. 31, 2025.
https://app.lifelogbox.com/festival/shortshorts?tab=competition