{"id":17049,"date":"2025-11-27T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/?post_type=news_en&#038;p=17049"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:07:58","slug":"autumnhighlights","status":"publish","type":"news_en","link":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/news_en\/creators\/autumnhighlights\/","title":{"rendered":"SSFF &#038; ASIA 2025 Screening in Autumn Online Grand Theater NFT Audience Choice Results Are In! Kim Nam-gil\u2019s &#8220;How to Open the Door&#8221; Tops the Rankings <br>\u2014 Director\u2019s Message Video Released as well as Highlights Video Now Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 Screening in Autumn, held from October 22 to November 10, 2025, introduced a first-ever initiative: <strong>NFT Audience Choice<\/strong> in the Online Grand Theater. From approximately 50 films, the festival has now announced the title that received the highest number of votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short film <em><strong>How to Open the Door<\/strong><\/em> (directed by <strong>Park Ji-wan &amp; Joan Hui Ji-yey<\/strong>), produced by and starring Korean star <strong>Kim Nam-gil<\/strong>\u2014widely known for his acclaimed drama <em>The Fiery Priest<\/em> and numerous other film and TV works\u2014won the top spot, taking <strong>first place<\/strong> in the voting.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"925\" src=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Online-Grand-Theater-740x925.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Online-Grand-Theater-740x925.png 740w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Online-Grand-Theater-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Online-Grand-Theater-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Online-Grand-Theater.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have already received joyful comments from the directors of <em>How to Open the Door<\/em>!<\/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=\"How to Open the Door Video Message\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sc_6CiaYIso?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>In addition, SSFF &amp; ASIA has released a <strong>highlight movie<\/strong> looking back on the SSFF \uff06 ASIA 2025 Screening in Autumn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival featured a special screening program bringing together the <strong>SSFF &amp; ASIA 2025 Grand Prix winner<\/strong>, a prospective contender for the next Academy Awards\u00ae, along with all award-winning films from each competition category. It also presented a non-stop lineup of curated shorts themed around <strong>art and AI<\/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=\"SSFF \uff06 ASIA 2025 \u79cb\u306e\u56fd\u969b\u77ed\u7de8\u6620\u753b\u796d \u30cf\u30a4\u30e9\u30a4\u30c8\u30e0\u30fc\u30d3\u30fc\/Screening in Autumn Highlight Movie\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itwV56UjPyA?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>Other highlights included the world premiere event of a short film starring <strong>Yuka Sugai<\/strong>, as well as numerous international guests joining <strong>Q&amp;A sessions<\/strong> and an <strong>international conference on AI and filmmaking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to watch and enjoy the highlights of this year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17046,"parent":0,"template":"","e_news_cat":[550,548,641,549,552],"class_list":["post-17049","news_en","type-news_en","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","e_news_cat-creators","e_news_cat-event","e_news_cat-filmfestival","e_news_cat-project","e_news_cat-streaming"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"e_news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/e_news_cat?post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}