Announcement of SSFF & ASIA 2023 Shortlist (#4)
Since August, 2021, the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia began releasing a shortlist every month from among the entries for the five Academy Award© eligible categories (International, Asia International, Japan, Animation, & Non-fiction) for the following year’s festival.
For this year’s 25th Anniversary edition of the SSFF & Asia 2023, in November this year, we received a total of 797 entries. In particular, there were many entries from the United States, Japan, France, China, and United Kingdom. 20% of the total submissions were from Japan. In addition, 34％ of the submitted films were directed by female filmmakers and 28% from first-time filmmakers. There were many stories about the younger generation struggling between conforming to society or alternative ways of life, middle-age characters facing life changes and reconsidering what’s more important to add value to their lives. As for genres, we are receiving more horror/thriller films than last year but with added elements of comedy .
Today is 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 & ASIS 2023 shortlist(4th)～
~ The name of the film, the director name, and the country name will be listed in alphabetical order by category ~
| Title | Director | Country of Origin |
| ■International／Live-action Competition | ||
| Bean Feasa // Wise Woman | Daniel Butler | Ireland |
| Beyond Teruel | Manuel Omonte | Spain |
| Burden of proof | Ivar Aase | Norway |
| BURN IT ALL | JACK Hickey | Ireland |
| CORA IN REFLECTION | Ash Brandon | United States |
| Daisy | Torbjörn Edwall | Sweden |
| Esperanza | Shruti Parekh | United States |
| Fracture | Panagiotis Fafoutis | Greece |
| FUNDI | REMI PARISSE | France |
| Get Home Safe | Tamara Denić | Germany |
| Headspace | Aisling Byrne | Ireland |
| Hold Up | Alex Rollins Berg | United States |
| Lava | Carmen Jimenez | Spain |
| Les Désancré.e.s | Laura Lambert, Hélène Manescau | France |
| Piedra Dura | Rommel Villa | Bolivia, Plurinational State of |
| Romeo | Tynystan Temirzhan uulu | Kyrgyzstan |
| Sunset at the Sea | Jina Miao | United States |
| Tabanca | Lauren Marsden | Canada |
| The middle of the garage | Lisa Bolduc | Canada |
| The Other End of the Street | Kálmán Nagy | Austria |
| Voice Activated | Steve Anthopoulos | Australia |
| Volver Al Sur – Returning South | Sofia Ayala | Germany |
| Your Guardian | Mimi Vlaovic | Serbia |
| Lola vs Ed | Brinkman Lars | Netherlands |
| ■Asia International / Live-action Competition | ||
| 44 | Meera Krishnan | India |
| 48 Hours | Azadeh Moussavi | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Evacuation of Mama Emola | Priambodo Anggun | Indonesia |
| ETERNAL SUNDAY | Lyu Rhyme | China |
| File | Sonia K. Hadad | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Floating on Water | Su,Yi-Hui | Taiwan |
| Giddh (The Scavenger) | Manish Saini | India |
| HEIRLOOMS | Devina Sofiyanti | Indonesia |
| Nowhere else | LEE KYEONG WON | Korea, Republic of |
| Raised in Water | Janus Victoria | Philippines |
| The Suitcase | Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| ■Japan / Live-action Competition | ||
| CALM TIME | Rino Tsuneishi | Japan |
| LET’S MAKE BLUEBERRY JAM | Yusuke Hayamizu | Japan |
| One minute walk to love in cosplay | Ryousuke Tanaka | Japan |
| Six of Sayoko | Yuji Shiota | Japan |
| ■Animation Competition | ||
| Amok | Balázs Turai | Hungary |
| Candlelight | Scott Newton | United Kingdom |
| Crab | Piotr Chmielewski | Poland |
| Distance | Jung-Hsin Hu | Taiwan |
| Eclipse Diplomacy | LUTON Cesar, PASQUIER Achille, LALLAOUI Selim, BAILLY Clemence, MECHIN Axel | France |
| FALLING | Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | United States |
| Kafka’s Doll | Bruno Simões | Spain |
| pinto | Sei Ohara | Japan |
| Spoon | arthur chays | France |
| Til We Meet Again | Ülo Pikkov | Estonia |
| ■Non-Fiction Competition | ||
| Afterlives | Michael Heindl | Austria |
| Becoming Yamazushi | George Yamazawa | United States |
| The Awakening of the Vietnamese Elephant | Teresa Carante | Viet Nam |
Festival selections will be made from among the shortlisted films. The shortlist films will be selected monthly until the end of March, 2023 and will be uploaded on the festival’s official website by the end of April, 2023.This month’s shortlist is mainly drawn from films submitted by the end of November, however the timing of the announcements may vary.