Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist (5th)
We are proud to announce the latest shortlist from among the submissions for the Academy Awards© eligible categories (Live-action Competition, Animation competition, and Non-fiction competition) for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024.
In December, we received a total of 246 entries. The most submissions were from the United States, Japan, China, United Kingdom, and Sweden followed by Angola, Kosovo, and Malta. 44% of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers, 26% by first-time filmmakers, & 27 % were student projects. Regarding durations, 30 % were under 10min, and 11% were under 5 min. there were many shorts with Motherhood as a theme this month, films about pregnancy, and young mothers wondering what will be the future will be for them, wondering if this will be the end of their own, “normal” lives like going to work or school. 10% of the submitted films were comedies, rom-coms set in weddings, etc., also comedy heist films with clumsy and funny characters stood out!
Today is the final day for accepting submissions in the U-25 & Branded Shorts competitions. We look forward to your submissions!!
〜SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist(5th)～
~ The name of the film, the director name, and the country name will be listed in alphabetical order by category ~
| Project Title | Directors | Country of Origin |
| ■International／Live-action Competition | ||
| A short film about Kids | Ibrahim Handal | PALESTINE |
| Corallu | boizard pauline | FRANCE |
| Late August | Soudan Martin | FRANCE |
| The Night Inside | Antonio Cuesta | SPAIN |
| The Blurring Of Trees | Fanny Perreault | CANADA |
| Misericordia – what we do to ourselves | Oskar Gaston Koller | GERMANY |
| Nocturnus | Dens Harm, Van Coillie Meltse | BELGIUM |
| Sarajin | Justin Kim WooSŏk | UNITED STATES |
| Table | Matthew Moore | UNITED STATES |
| The Hand that Feeds | Helen Hideko | AUSTRIA |
| The Masterpiece | Ëlex Lora | SPAIN |
| The Talent | Thomas May Bailey | UNITED KINGDOM |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| A Catholic Schoolgirl | Myra Angeline Soriaso | PHILIPPINES |
| Recurrence | Ali Alizadeh | IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF |
| Saigon Kiss | Hồng Anh Nguyễn | VIETNAM |
| Zero | Neel Menon | INDIA |
| VoiceClub | Taeyoung KIM | Korea, Republic of |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| Sasha’s Slope | Yoshiki Ooneda | JAPAN |
| 満腹のクジラは、餓死をした。 | Tetsutaro Yaguchi | JAPAN |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| A Stand Still Journey | Izù Troin | FRANCE |
| AFTER GRANDPA | Michel Juliette , Sence Axel , Leviaux Victoria , Gomes Freitas Florian , Valenza Swann | FRANCE |
| Bluebird in the Wind | Ellis Kayin CHAN | HONG KONG |
| Ghost of the Dark Path | Fish Wang | TAIWAN |
| Ruthless Blade | Bo Zhang | CHINA |
| The Car that came back from the Sea | Jadwiga Kowalska | SWITZERLAND |
| The Lovers | Carolina Sandvik | SWEDEN |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Cycles | Anthony Oswald, Pisie Hochheim | UNITED STATES |
| Habibi | Amélie Joana Vogel, Janina Bitsch | GERMANY |
| Karachi Begums | Amatullah Rahat Saeed, Aqsa Abdul Qadir | PAKISTAN |
| Silver City | Dea Saračević | SWEDEN |
| Tranquil (Panatag) | Allan Lazaro | PHILIPPINES |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2024 and will be uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April, 2024.This month’s shortlist is mainly for films submitted by the end of December, but the timing of the announcements may vary.