Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022 – Final Shortlist!
Beginning in August, 2021, we have released a shortlist from among the entries for the five Academy Award© accredited competitions (International, Asia International, Japan, Animation, Non-fiction) for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022. In January, we received over 600 submissions. Over the submission period since last August, we received a total 4,111 submissions for the 5 main competitions. The most submissions for International Competition were from the United States with 2,282 short films followed by submissions from France, the UK, & Spain. We received a total 639 short films for the Asia International Competition with the majority of submissions from South Korea & China. There were 342 submissions from Japan which surpassed last year’s total. In our newly Academy Award©︎ accredited Animation Competition, we received 513 submissions & 335 in our Non-fiction Competition. Out of these, roughly 20% were directed by students & 30% were from 1st time & young directors. Out of our 2022 submissions, the theme that stood out the most were very intimate stories that depicted changes in family, personal, & work lives that were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Animation Competition, there were many adult-oriented shorts that depicted personal loneliness, solitude, and conflict in highly original styles that could not be depicted through live action short films. From the Non-fiction Competition submissions, there were many films with strong social themes such as environmental and racial issues, as well as stories that placed focus on a single individual and brought new discoveries through their very personal stories. And now, on the 28th of next month, we will announce our official selections! We know that you will be very anxious to see the results & we hope that you will come to appreciate the very fine work of the many filmmakers from around the world!
~ SSFF & ASIA 2022 Short List (6th) ~
*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 | ||
| Act of God | Spencer Cook & Parker Smith | United States |
| And Then What? (¿Y Luego?) | Mario Trujillo | Mexico |
| Are You Still There? | Rayka Zehtabchi & Sam Davis | United States |
| Atonement (Försoning) | Kaveh Akaber | Sweden |
| Born to cry (Fanfare) | Léo Grandperret | France |
| Buzz (Tanin) | Mohamed Fawi | Sudan |
| Dream Racing (Cavales) | Juliette Riccaboni | Switzerland |
| Entrance of Pink Elephants | Tatiana Fedorovskaya | Israel |
| Get Ready. Off to the Feast (Собирайся. Поедем на праздник) | Lamara Sogomonian | Russian Federation |
| GOGOL-MOGOL | Aleksander Kott | Russian Federation |
| Love is Real! | Calvin Sang | New Zealand |
| Mammas | Carine Hazan | France |
| No Ghost in the Morgue | Marilyn Cooke | Canada |
| North Pole | Marija Apcevska | Macedonia |
| On my mind | Martin Strange-Hansen | Denmark |
| Press Key 5 | Lipa Hussain | United Kingdom |
| On Your Behalf | Ana Garcia Rico | United Kingdom |
| Phase | Mykola Zaseev | Ukraine |
| Saboteur | Anssi Kasitonni | Finland |
| She Wolf Totem (Tótem Loba) | Verónica Echegui | Spain |
| Stagnant Water | Coraline Zorea | Israel |
| Spiral | Salla Sorri & Eva-Maria Koskinen | Finland |
| The Diaper Cake | Anastasia Babenko | Ukraine |
| The Speech (Le discours) | Mohammad Hijazi | France |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Asia International Competition | ||
| Breathless (龍罩) | Wayne Yu | China |
| DARK YELLOW | Hyesun KOO | Korea, Republic of |
| From the Painter’s View | Goli Zarei | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Hold on little shark | kun yu tan | China |
| Influencer | Jared Lee | Malaysia |
| Kids of Paradise | Mo Sha | China |
| Overtone (泛音) | Chih-yu Liu | Taiwan |
| Penguin Girl (命中註定那頭鵝) | Yuyu Yang | Taiwan |
| Rooster (Gong ji) | Myo Aung | Myanmar |
| The Headhunter’s Daughter (Hija ti Mengor) | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines |
| Turtle Soup | Choānn | Singapore |
| Official Competition supported by Sony Japan Competition | ||
| I order you | 早坂 亮輔 ( Ryosuke Hayazaka) | Japan |
| ありがとう (Gratitude) | 永山 瑛太 (Eita Nagayama) | Japan |
| あんた (sparklers) | 千葉 雄大 (Yudai Chiba) | Japan |
| いくえにも。(Over And Over Again) | 青柳 翔 (Sho Aoyagi) | Japan |
| 音の無い部屋 (A Room Without Sound) | 名嘉真 崇介 (Takayuki Nakama) | Japan |
| 帰り道 | 朴 英二 (Park Yeong I) | Japan |
| THE LIMIT タクシーの女 (THE LIMIT Taxi Girl) | 吉田 真也 (Masaya Yoshida) | Japan |
| じいのけ (A Strand of Regret) | 道上 寿人 (Hisato Michigami) | Japan |
| 宿題 (Homework) | 山本 理紗 (Risa Yamamoto) | Japan |
| スクープ (SCOOOP) | 伊東 淳 (Atsushi Ito) | Japan |
| ZEN | 宮原 拓也 (Takuya Miyahara) | Japan |
| 線香花火 (SENKO-HANABI) | 黒木 瞳 (Hitomi Kuroki) | Japan |
| 正しいあとさき | 手塚 悟 (Satoru Tezuka) | Japan |
| ただの夏の日の話 (Just Another Summer Day) | 松岡 芳佳 (Yoshika Matsuoka) | Japan |
| 肝愛さ (CHIMUGANASA) | 宮城 夏鈴 (Karin Miyagi) | Japan |
| 裸足 (Barefoot) | 田之上 裕美 (Hiromi Tanoue) | Japan |
| ハッピー・デス・デー (happy death day) | カ ツヲ (Katsuwo) | Japan |
| 僕はいつも少し嘘をつく | 松井 陽音 (Akito Matsui) | Japan |
| 牡丹の花 (Summer Ends) | 土居 佑香 (Yuuka Doi) | Japan |
| 窓／les fenêtres (the windows) | 清原 千香子 (Chikako Kiyohara) | Japan |
| 物語 (STORY) | 玉城 ティナ (Tina Tamashiro) | Japan |
| 理解される体力 (Communication to be understood) | 前田 敦子 (Atsuko Maeda) | Japan |
| LAYERS | 内山 拓也 (Takuya Uchiyama) | Japan |
| Perdue dans l’Éden (Lost in Eden) | Hakim Hayashi | Japan |
| WILD CHERRY | 呉村 芳建 (Yoshi Kuremura) | Japan |
| Animation Competition | ||
| A Goat’s Spell | Gerhard Funk | Germany |
| BOA | Nicolas Eduardo Parra | Colombia |
| 心の一人旅. (A journey into yourself – with GINGA KOGEN BEER -) | 牧野 惇 (Atsushi Makino) | Japan |
| fishing (フィッシング) | 金友那津希 (Natsuki Kanetomo) | Japan |
| Goodness (グッドネス ) | 軍地 佑介 (Yusuke Gunji) | Japan |
| Home of the heart. (À cœur perdu) | Sarah Saidan | France |
| Manō | Brittany Biggs | United States |
| MARE | 石田 たまき (Tamaki Ishida) | Japan |
| Sweet Nothing | Joana Fischer & Marie Kenov | Switzerland |
| Terra Incognita | Pernille Kjaer & Adrian Dexter | France |
| Thanks Again！(まいど！) | Yifan Jiang | China |
| The Fantastic Flying Competition. (De fantastische vliegwedstrijd) | John Croezen | Netherlands |
| The Story about 2020 | Peeko Wong & Chi Kin Wong | Macao |
| Unnecessary things | Dmytro Lisenbart | Ukraine |
| Wings to the Sun | Ken Mimura | Canada |
| Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| 11.6秒の世界. (World of 11.6 seconds) | 宮崎宏興 池本和弘 (Hirooki Miyazaki & Kazuhiro Ikemoto) | Japan |
| Brother | Mile Nagaoka | Japan |
| ここからみえる景色 / LIVING WHILE BLACK IN JAPAN | 深田志穂＆ベッドフォード・キース（Shiho Fukada & Keith Bedford） | Japan |
| 母 (haha) | 森山 久夫 (Hisao Moriyama) | Japan |
| Nanmin | Adam Shaw | United States |
| Prawn Noodles and a Dream | Ding Jie (DJ) Ng | Singapore |
| The Land of Whispering Stars | Ayaal Adamov | Russian Federation |
| The Sight of Blue. (Les Yeux Grands Ouverts) | Pierre Bouquet | Belgium |
| Transparent, I am. | Yuri Muraoka | Japan |
The official festival selections will be made from out of the shortlisted films that were posted monthly until this month and will be announced on the official festival website on April 28, 2022. In addition to the five main competition selections, the films in other competitions and the special program films that will be screened at our festival will also be announced at the same time.