Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist (6th)
Beginning in August, 2021, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia began releasing a monthly shortlist from among the submissions for the five Academy Award© eligible categories (International, Asia International, Japan, Animation, & Non-fiction). The shortlisted films will be eligible for selection for the following year’s festival.
For this year’s edition of the SSFF & Asia 2024, in January, we received a total of 373 entries. Among these submissions were many films from Japan, China, Korea, Iran, and Taiwan. About 60% of the total submissions were from Japan. In addition, 30％ of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers, 36% from first-time filmmakers, and 50 % from student filmmakers. We received many films about relationships between grandparents and grandchildren with grandchildren around age of 7 to 9 years old.
Also, inclusive films made by directors with disabilities are increasing. They do not need or use dialogue to give a strong message in an entertaining way.
This is the final shortlist announcement for SSFF 2024. This year, a total of 4,936 films were submitted to the festival from 114 countries and regions around the world. Regarding duration, 25 % were under 10min, and 10% were under 5 min. The most submissions were from the U.S., Japan, China, France, and the UK followed by countries like Mauritania, Kosovo, Senegal, Uganda, and Rwanda. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful films with us!!
〜SSFF & ASIA 2024 shortlist(6th)～
~ 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 | ||
| Clodagh | Portia A. Buckley | IRELAND |
| Cold Water | Itamar Alcalay | ISRAEL |
| Dying Light | Ivan Orlenko | UKRAINE |
| Eksi Bir | mer Ferhat zmen | TURKEY |
| Enmity Djinn | Mohamed Echkouna | MAURITANIA |
| Lovesick | Alexander Saul | DENMARK |
| Medicine | McKegg William | NEW ZEALAND |
| Morî | Tekintangaç Yakup | TURKEY |
| MOUSE! | Max Fisher | UNITED KINGDOM |
| My Name is Aseman | Gianluca Mangiasciutti & Ali Asgari | ITALY |
| Paris Bruxelles | Marjorie Lhomme | FRANCE |
| PETITES VAGUES | Filip PERUZOVIC | CROATIA |
| Remember to Breathe | Joseph Simmons | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Riscaldamento locale | Manuel Vitali | ITALY |
| Summer’s End | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano | UNITED STATES |
| The Doll’s House | Tim Rogg | UNITED KINGDOM |
| The Furlough | Karolina Weglorz-Zima | POLAND |
| The Mysterious Adventures of Claude Conseil | Marie-Lola Terver & Paul Jousselin | FRANCE |
| The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry | Faris Alrjoob | JORDAN |
| Veður ræður akri, en vit syni | Katla Sólnes | ICELAND |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| A Dream for My Daughter | Mauricio Osaki | VIETNAM, JAPAN |
| Ayesha | Nihit Bhave | INDIA |
| Built to Scale | Eliza Danielle Goh | SINGAPORE |
| Forest of Echos | Yoo-ri LIM | Korea, Republic of |
| funeral of ‘Baewoo’ | 이범규 BEOMKYU LEE | Korea, Republic of |
| Have a nice day | Diana Lu | CHINA |
| Road to Harvard | Danny Chong Ka Yung | MALAYSIA |
| Together Days | Isabella Tan | MALAYSIA |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| さよならのかわりに | Tomonobu Moriwaki | JAPAN |
| 『ONE WAY LOVE』 | Tetsuo Shinohara | JAPAN |
| 10 Days to Eternity | Kenji Kurata | JAPAN |
| AI love you | Raita Yabushita | JAPAN |
| Alien in Smartphone | Haruki Kawanaka | JAPAN |
| Ding Dong Ditch | chavo | JAPAN |
| FUTURE!FUTURE! | Kairi Manabe | JAPAN |
| Harmonia | Yudai Chiba | JAPAN |
| KABURAGI | Riisa Naka | JAPAN |
| SEN | Win Morisaki | JAPAN |
| TAMA RIVER MELODY | Toshiya Kubo | JAPAN |
| Thank You, Gateway To The World | Yuki Saito | JAPAN |
| THE HAPPINESS INDEX | Mai Nishi | JAPAN |
| To I | Kei Ikeda | JAPAN |
| TOMA #2 | Youhei Osabe | JAPAN |
| Yours | Sota Fukushi | JAPAN |
| OYSTER SHELL | Hajime Tsuda | JAPAN |
| こどものくに | Kazuhiro Taira | JAPAN |
| 竹とタケノコ | Shinya Kawakami | JAPAN |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| A Perfect Day: Seven Scenes and Others | Yoneo Katakashi | JAPAN |
| BOX | Ramon Schoch | SWITZERLAND |
| COLD SOUP | Marta Monteiro | PORTUGAL |
| Crevette | Elina Huber, Nomi Knobil, Jill Vgner & Sven Bachmann | SWITZERLAND |
| Dark cloud memories | Seung-hee JUNG | Korea, Republic of |
| Hound | Lauri Ketonen | FINLAND |
| Maurice’s Bar | Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman | FRANCE |
| Minus Plus Multiply | Chu-Chieh Lee | UNITED KINGDOM |
| MoMo & LuLu | Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi | POLAND |
| Moonless | Adheep Das | INDIA |
| My sweet heart | AKIHA SHIROTA | JAPAN |
| Papillon (Butterfly) | Florence Miailhe | FRANCE |
| PRISONER | Maato Kurimoto | JAPAN |
| The Family Portrait | Lea Vidakovic | CROATIA |
| Tomatoes | Kei Kanamori | JAPAN |
| Underground | Yiannis Christoforou | GREECE |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| A letter from Shingo | Johan Bävman | SWEDEN |
| FISHMONGER | Taichi Kimura | JAPAN |
| Ikigai | Trent Cooper | UNITED STATES |
| Nay Chi | Nant May Flower | MYANMAR |
| Shuhari – Finding my way through Japanese calligraphy | Tatsuya Ino | UNITED STATES |
| Surface | Anna Kekkonen | FINLAND |
| Yuzuriha Gakusya [Eyes close to life vol.3] | Kengo Yamada | JAPAN |
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 on April 25th, 2024.This month’s shortlist is mainly drawn from films submitted by the end of January, however the timing of the announcements may vary.