Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2022 shortlist (4th)
Beginning in August, we have released a shortlist from among the entries for the five Academy Award© categories (International, Asia International, Japan, Animation, Non-fiction) at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022. In November we received 660 submissions. There were many shorts submitted from the United States, France, and Israel. For the Asia International Competition we received the most submissions from South Korea. About 1/3 were shorts from first time directors and another 1/3 were directed by female filmmakers. Along with stories about changes in lifestyle, there were many stories about families from many different angles; the relationships between parents & children, between siblings, with estranged grandparents. There is sure to be a number of short films that you will able to relate to at the festival in June. Today will be the final day to accept submissions in the 5 main competitions as well as the Cinematic Tokyo and the Smartphone Film Competition supported by Sony’s Xperia. We hope to see your submissions here!
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~ SSFF & ASIA 2022 Short List (4th) ~ *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 | ||
| +963 | Daood Alabdulaa | Germany |
| 5 Stars | Remi Itani | United Kingdom |
| A Moral Man | Paul and Simon Wade | United Kingdom |
| BUNKER | Céline Ronté & Antoine Schoumsky | France |
| Cranberry Chorus | Lina Yuchen Guan Li | United States |
| Everything Will Be Fine | Joachim Dejonghe | Belgium |
| Farrucas | Ian de la Rosa | Spain |
| Four Walls and a Roof | Keelan Nieuwstadt | South Africa |
| High Sky Low Land (Alvaret) | Maria Eriksson-Hecht | Sweden |
| Imani | Katia Scarton-Kim | Switzerland |
| Jungle | Kieran Wheeler | Australia |
| LEAVE TO REMAIN | Remy Bazerque | United Kingdom |
| Let the Beast rise (Que la Bête monte) | Marthe Sébille | France |
| Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro (Lyckad upptining av herr Moro) | Jerry Carlsson | Sweden |
| TERMAJI | Avel Corre | France |
| The Affront (Behördenhasser) | Jonas Ulrich | Switzerland |
| Warsha | Dania Bdeir | Lebanon |
| WE DO THIS ONCE | Michael Marantz | United States |
| Matrice (رحم) | Faten Jaziri | Tunisia |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Asia International Competition | ||
| Boy On The Fringes | Zachary Yap | Singapore |
| Hand It To Pari | Amir Jalali | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| How to get lost in your own room (집 안에서 완벽하게 미아가 되는 법) | jaehyun park | Korea, Republic of |
| Jaagran | Hardik Sadhwani & Ritviq Joshi | India |
| Orthodontics | mohammadreza mayghani | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Recruitment (Gozinesh) | Nazanin chitsaz | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Smile Please | Bakul Matiyani | India |
| Split Ends | Alireza Kazemipour | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| The Executioner | Yue Huang | China |
| The hands | Seowon Jung | Korea, Republic of |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Japan Competition | ||
| 息、さらす (Breathless) | 岩田 隼之介 (Junnosuke Iwata) | Japan |
| お願いだから、唱えてよ (Chant out loud!) | 佐島 由昭 (Yoshiaki Sajima) | Japan |
| Orbital Christmas | Mitsuyasu Sakai | Japan |
| 水魚の交わり | 村田 陽奈 (Hina Murata) | Japan |
| だれかとはなしがしたくなる | 安村 栄美 (ヤスムラ エミ) | Japan |
| DIS ME LAND | カ ツヲ (Katsuwo) | Japan |
| 母の反抗期 (a family portrait) | 近江 浩之 (Hiroyuki Oumi) | Japan |
| ほどく女 (Unwinding woman) | 佐藤 剛平 (Gohey Sato) | Japan |
| ぽくぽく(Exorcism Master) | 塩出 太志 (Taishi Shiode) | Japan |
| Like You | Tetsuya Uesugi | Japan |
| Animation Competition | ||
| Absense | Marc Héricher | France |
| Air | Brian Wilcox | United States |
| Come | David McShane | United Kingdom |
| Destiny | 松岡 美乃梨 ( Minori Matsuoka) | Japan |
| Laika & Nemo | Jan Gadermann & Sebastian Gadow | Germany |
| Rest in piece | Antoine Antabi | Germany |
| RIM | Hagar Faibish | Germany |
| The Night Watch (Ronde de nuit) | Julien Regnard | France |
| The Torrential Melody | José Luis Saturno | Mexico |
| Your Bad Animals | Ido Shapira & Amit Cohen | Israel |
| Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Blind Spot | Lotfi Achour | Tunisia, France |
| Dress A Cow | Dawn Luebbe | United States |
| Her Scents of Pu Er | Anna-Claria Ostasenko Bogdanoff | France |
| Legend (Dong-han Hong) (傳‧傳 (洪東漢)) | Feeling Wu | Taiwan |
| Man with Doves (Man med duvor) | Lina Maria Mannheimer | Sweden |
| Salman Toor’s Emerald Green | Adam Golfer | United States |
| HOPE / Look up to the sky | 上田 大介 (Daisuke Ueda) | Japan |
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 November, but the timing of the announcements may vary.