Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2022 shortlist (1st)
Starting this month, we will announce a shortlist from among the submitted films that will be nominated for the five Academy Awards® eligible categories, (Official Competition supported by Sony:International, Asia International, Japan and Animation & Non-fiction) at the Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2022. In August, we received a total of about 1,000 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and from China, Iran, & India in Asia. 30% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers. Due to the spread of Covid on a global scale, there have been many dramas dealing with people’s separation and loneliness, but this year there has been an increase in short films in genres such as fantasy, comedy, and horror. Instead of depicting tragic, sorrowful events happening in the real world, we have seen submissions from filmmakers who are creating new & entertaining stories in their films!
Congratulations for all the filmmakers whose works are entered in the short list!!
We keep accepting the submission till Jan. 31, 2022.
Looking forward to seeing you at the festival 2022!!
~ SSFF & ASIA 2022 Short List (1st) ~
*The name of the film, the director name, and the country name will be listed in alphabetical order by category
| Title | Director | Country |
| Official Competition supported by Sony International Competition | ||
| A Summer Place | Alexandra Matheou | Cyprus, France |
| An Encounter | Kelly Campbell | Ireland |
| AUGUST SKY (Céu De Agosto) | Jasmin Tenucci | Brazil |
| Beautiful They | Cloudy Rhodes | Australia |
| Burros | Jefferson Stein | United States |
| CENSOR OF DREAMS. (LE CENSEUR DES RÊVES) | Leo Berne & Raphaël Rodriguez | France |
| Did you hear the trees? | Lena Jaworska | Poland |
| Enjoy | Saul Abraham | United Kingdom |
| First Last Summer | Nastazja Gonera | Poland |
| FRONTIER (FRONTIÈRE) | Daouda Kanouté | France |
| IF IT AIN’T BROKE | Elinor Nechemya | Israel |
| In The Soil | Casper Rudolf Emil Kjeldsen | Denmark |
| JEFF | Walter Joesph Woodman | Canada |
| Little Berlin | Kate McMullen | France |
| ¡Llámame Chinita! | Stacy Chu | United States |
| Neon Phantom (Fantasma Neon) | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil |
| OUT OF TIME (A CONTRE TEMPS) | Delphine Montaigne | France |
| Roy | Tom Berkeley & Ross White | United Kingdom |
| Shielded | Jan Verdijk | Netherlands |
| Sideral | Carlos Segundo | Brazil |
| Still Awake? | David Payne | Czech Republic |
| Techno, Mama | Saulius Baradinskas | Lithuania |
| The Departure (Le Départ) | Said Hamich | France |
| The Guard. (El Guardián) | Héctor Fernández Cachón | Spain |
| THE RIGHT WORDS (HAUT LES COEURS) | Adrian Moyse Dullin | France |
| Titan | Valéry Carnoy | Belgium |
| Vivaldi: Stabat Mater | Sebastian Panczyk | Poland |
| Wednesday | Eeva Mägi | Estonia |
| Yellow Cross My Heart. (Flaggan) | Inga Kempe & Elina Sahlin | Sweden |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Asia International Competition | ||
| All the Crows in the World. (天下烏鴉) | Yi Tang | Hong Kong |
| Angel | Dicky Chalmers | Taiwan |
| Cicada | Daewoen YOON | Korea, Republic of |
| Crow Island. (Kakathuruth) | Mohammed Ali Faisal | India |
| Fire Room. (菲與火) | Ka Ki Wong | Hong Kong |
| Her and I. (軟弱的梨) | Chen Shao Chun | Taiwan |
| Left Handed | Nasrin Mohammadpour | Iran |
| Live | Baggio Jiang | China |
| MAKASSAR IS A CITY FOR FOOTBALL FANS | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia |
| my sister (姊姊) | Ke Yin Pan | Taiwan |
| Sandstorm. (Mulaqaat) | Seemab GUL | Pakistan |
| Slight Fever. (微热) | Hongzhi LIU | China |
| Sound of the Night. (Somleng reatrey) | Chanrado SOK & Kongkea VANN | Cambodia |
| Visiting Time | Vahid Sedaghat | Iran |
| West Love (Kisah Cinta Dari Barat) | M. Reza Fahriyansyah | Indonesia |
| When I Fell from the Tree (當我從樹上掉落時) | Hsieh Li-Ling | Taiwan |
| Winter by the River (冬日河) | Shuyao Chen | China |
| Yến | Julia Feige | Vietnam |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Japan Competition | ||
| いってきます (Ittekimasu) | 高山 隆一 (Ryuichi Takayama) | Japan |
| 家族の灯 (Family Lights) | 山本 尚志 (Takashi Yamamoto) | Japan |
| 蜘蛛 (Spider) | 後藤 美波 (Minami Gotou) | Japan |
| ビューティフルワールド ペタロの時代の愛 (BEAUTIFUL WORLD – LOVE IN THE TIME OF PETALO-) | 横堀 光範 (Mitsunori Yokobori) | Japan |
| ぼくはぜろにみたない (I am less than zero ) | 外山 文治 (Bunji Sotoyama) | Japan |
| 理想の妻 (Ideal wife) | 谷口 譲 (Joe Taniguchi) | Japan |
| 忘れられない (Unforgettable) | Junki Tachibana | Japan |
| The Voice Actress | Anna J. Takayama | Japan |
| ten | 板橋 基之 (Motoyuki Itabashi) | Japan |
| Animation Competition | ||
| A Descent into the Maelström | David Daenemark | Czech Republic |
| アノナツココナツ (ANONATSU COCONUT) | 多田 文彦 (Fumihiko Tada) | Japan |
| Blink in the Desert | 副島 しのぶ (Shinobu Soejima ) | Japan |
| FALL OF THE IBIS KING | Mikai Geronimo & Josh O’Caoimh | Ireland |
| Homebird | Ewa Smyk | United Kingdom |
| House of memory (La casa de la memoria) | Sofía Rosales Arreola | Mexico |
| How Small! | Charlene Xu | United States |
| In Nature (Dans la Nature) | Marcel Barelli | Switzerland |
| Local Middle Schooler | Sanjna Bharadwaj | United States |
| マンガガールズ (MANGA girls) | 祁答院 雄貴 (Yuuki Kedouin ) | Japan |
| 目玉 (MEDAMA – eyeball ) | Anna Yamamoto | Japan |
| Sisters | Andrea Szelesová | Czech Republic |
| Skindeep | Edi , YUCA, Youth | United States |
| The Seine’s tears (Les larmes de la Seine) | Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer & Alice Letailleur | France |
| Under the skin, the bark. (Sous la peau, l’écorce) | Franck Dion | France |
| Vegetable Rising | Shreyom Ghosh | India |
| Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| A Day’s Work | Max Kerkhoff | Germany, Myanmar |
| A Man in Chain | Alireza Mirasadollah | United Kingdom |
| I Walk | 小谷野 五王 (Gou Koyano) | Japan |
| NAYA | Sebastian Mulder | Netherlands |
| Shadows in the Dark | Maren Hahnfeld | Germany |
| 最終頁 (The Last Page) | 中村 洸太 (Kota Nakamura) | Japan |
| The road bad and the place dark | Borja Larrondo | Spain |
| thing. (Ding) | Pascale Egli & Aurelio Ghirardelli | Switzerland |
| VO | Nicolas Gourault | France |
| WATER AND ROCK | Bertrand Rocourt | France |
| Yoshino Ringyo: The Lumberjacks of Japan | David Caprara | United States |
| You Can’t Automate Me | Katarina Jazbec | Netherlands |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2022 and will be uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April, 2022.This month’s shortlist is mainly for films submitted by the end of August, but the timing of the announcements may vary.