SSFF & ASIA 2025 Global Spotlight Award Shortlist Vol.2 is announced
SSFF & ASIA 2025 annonced the shortlist vol. 2 for this year’s Global Spotlight Award.
This Award is given to a work outside Japan which conveys the present of the world in a changing world and opens up new possibilities for a filmmaker and supports short films that unites the world.
In 2021, Travon Free’s 2020 Black Lives Matter themed, Oscar(R) winning short film “Two Distant Strangers”, in 2022, NFT animation “Roborovski” (Australia) by Tilda Kobham-Harvey and Dev Petal (“Hotel Mumbai”) , and in 2023, Korean star Seo In Guk’s directorial short film “Trap by Seo In Guk” had been selected as the Global Spotlight Award.
In 2024, Music Drama by Korean pop star Stray Kids “Stray Kids ＜樂-STAR＞ SKZFLIX” won the award and showed high attention to the Korean music short.
The shortlist will be announced monthly from and the final award will be announced in the SSFF & ASIA 2025 in June.
For the 2nd shortlist for the Globasl Spotlight Award 2025, Following 2 short films are nominated:
“Loser Baby”, a comedy-drama directed (directorial debut) and produced by Dakota Johnson (“Madame Webb”), about a queer woman whose friends’ expanding conceptions about their relationships gets her wondering about the state of her own.
“Little Shrew (Snowflake)” , an animation film written, directed and scored by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. She said of the film: ‘In 2022, war broke out in Ukraine and I wanted to make an anti-war animation. In particular, I wanted to draw attention to children caught up in the war.’
★『Loser Baby』
Director：Dakota Johnson / U.S.A / 23min. / 2024
Talia, a queer woman, starts questioning her relationships as her friends’ conceptions about commitment evolve.
★『Little Shrew (Snowflake)』
Director：Kate Bush / U.K. / 4:07 / 2024
A little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city.