{"id":16012,"date":"2025-01-15T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/?post_type=news_en&#038;p=16012"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T08:23:44","slug":"ssff2025-gsa1","status":"publish","type":"news_en","link":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/news_en\/creators\/ssff2025-gsa1\/","title":{"rendered":"SSFF &#038; ASIA 2025 Global Spotlight Award Shortlist Vol.1 is announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1.jpg 670w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SSFF-ASIA-2025-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 annonced the shortlist vol.1 for this year\u2019s Global Spotlight Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, Travon Free\u2019s 2020 Black Lives Matter themed, Oscar(R) winning short film \u201cTwo Distant Strangers\u201d, in 2022, NFT animation \u201cRoborovski\u201d (Australia) by Tilda Kobham-Harvey and Dev Petal (\u201cHotel Mumbai\u201d) , and in 2023, Korean star Seo In Guk\u2019s directorial short film \u201cTrap by Seo In Guk\u201d had been selected as the Global Spotlight Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Music Drama by Korean pop star Stray Kids \u201cStray Kids \uff1c\u6a02-STAR\uff1e SKZFLIX\u201d won the award and showed high attention to the Korean music short.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shortlist will be announced monthly from and the final award will be announced in the SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For the 1st shortlist for the Globasl Spotlight Award 2025, &#8220;Marion&#8221; in which Cate Balnchett participated as a producer and depicted a female bull-jumper juggling motherhood and career (premiered at the Venice) and &#8220;All\u00e9gorie citadine&#8221; directed by JR and starred by Leos Carax which is about Plato&#8217;s allegory of the cave, featuring a seven-year-old boy, Jay were selected.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u2605\u300eMARION\u300f<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MARION Trailer | TIFF 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wERXsjZck9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director\uff1aJoe Weiland, Finn Constantine \/ U.K. \/ 13min \/ 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marion, the only female \u00e9carteur in France, prepares for her performance in a packed arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u2605\u300eAll\u00e9gorie citadine\u300f<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AN URBAN ALLEGORY | Official Trailer | Hand-picked by MUBI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XpztZXCP_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director\uff1aJR, Alice Rohrwacher \/ France \/ 21min. \/ 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? 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