The Wait is Over: Unveiling the Highly-Anticipated SSFF & ASIA 2025 Shortlist – Meet the Nomination Candidates
SSFF & ASIA 2025 Shortlist
(Nomination candidates) Announcing the first round! !
2024/10/31
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Every month, we will announce a shortlist of nominees from among the works submitted in the Live Action, Animation, and Non-Fiction categories that will lead to the Academy Awards at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025.
A total of 845 works were submitted in August. The top five countries with the most applications were the United States, China, France, Canada, and Spain, with applications also coming from unusual countries such as Guyana, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. Thirty percent of all films are directed by women, 34% are first-time directors, 30% are student films, 58% are under 15 minutes, 28% are under 10 minutes, and 9% are under 5 minutes. The works also stood out. As in previous years, there were a large number of dramas, many of which dealt with themes such as family issues, illness, discrimination, immigration and refugee issues, and identity. Also, in the animation department, there were many works that utilized AI, and I got the impression that the use of AI is expanding in a wide range of areas, including not only animation, but also voice over, music, storyboards in pre-production, and color correction in post-production. .
~SSFF & ASIS 2025 Shortlist Part 1~
Title Director Country International A Burning TurretHumberto FloresMexicoA Whisper Starts a FireEduardo Moreno FernándezMexicoAdvanced €ttestupArjan VinjeNorwayCURA SANALucía G. RomeroSpainEighth Dimension (팔차원)Haneol LeeUSAFade to BlackGiovanni JannoniSwitzerlandFantasHalima ElkhatabiCanadaFarewell SongMauricio Molina ColombiaFuture is PanoramaMuschirf Shekh ZeynSyriaGender RevealMo MattonCanadaGoing DutchJack CoplandCanadaHymn of the PlaguePhilipp Ivanov & Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri GorbatyGermanyI See YouBriar Elizabeth MarchNew ZealandIn The FoldManuel Del ValleUnited StatesMasterpiece MommyDorothy Sing ZhangUnited KingdomNicaragua & UriarteTano LeviArgentina perfectly a strangenessAlison McAlpineCanadaPUNTERJason Adam MaselleSouth AfricaScreentimeAlexandrena ParkerAustraliaShadowKamell AllawayUSASip and blowR. RuvensSpainTara.Fionntán LarneyIrelandTHE LAST COWBOY IN SALFORDJakob LancasterUnited KingdomThe swimming poolSantiago Cardelús Ruiz-Alberdi, Pablo Manchado CascónSpainTHERE IS FIRESimon LECLERCQ, Thibault LECLERCQFranceThis Must Be LoveAndrew KavanaghAustraliaTurnaroundAisling ByrneIrelandUrbanLuso MartínezSpainWhy men live lessNikita BelykhRussiaZahra Hadi Hasan ShatatJordanAsia A Brighter Summer Day For The Lady AvengersBirdy Wei-Ting HungTaiwanBlack Scarf (شال سیاه)Ali Reza Shah HosseiniIran DamjiNazanin ChitsazIran Dandelions GirlAzadeh MasihzadehIranDou (窦女)Jing ZhaoChinaDragon Head Phoenix Tail BrowLi Lin WeeSingaporeHoly CurseSnigdha KapoorIndia & AmericaIn the Words of FirmanKurnia AlexanderIndonesiaJammedDyan DumpangolMalaysiaLast Rain on my paradeHuu Thanh TranVietnamLink (링크 )Jiwon KIMKoreaSheepHadi BabaeifarIranThank You, DaisyDave TanSingaporeTouchMahyar HamidianIranVox HumanaDon Josephus Raphael EblahanPhilippinesAnimation Dead weightØyvind TangsethNorwayEaster EggMassimo Carrier RagazziItalyHer Wish Baoxingchen YIChinaHEY DAD (嗨, 爸)WeiFan WangTaiwanhuman-faced Cockroach (《蛊》)Yinxue LiChinaKafka. In LoveZane OborenkoLatviaLavomatrixMatthieu Fulcheri, Simon Vernus, Mila Cottin, Martin Carvalho, Chloé Langlet, Lou-Eva GoimetFranceLong DistanceMichael FreiSwitzerland Mombomb, part 1Patricia Beckmann Wells USAMûMalin NeumannGermanyOne Flew Over The Celestial PalaceSofia WangChinaPathsJordan NugemBrazilRetirement PlanJohn KellyIrelandRose RashThanut RujitanontThailand SublimeMarie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas FoutrierFranceTennis, OrangesSean PecknoldAmerican Boxfish Tominamata no UmiTakuya InabaJapanTransformationMarcel BarsottiGermanyVoicelessSamuel PattheySwitzerlandNon Fiction Inside, The Valley SingsNathan FaganIrelandKentaroTilmann Stewart, Gaku MatsudaAustraliaMega FoundryYixin ZHANGChinaPassion and Tradition: Yonabaru’s Grand Tug-of-War, Okinawa JapanYuichi IshidaJapan Three GenerationKayli KimuraAmericaThe Earthy KingdomThanh Duy TranVietnamTsumuguShiki ToukoAmericaWho loves the sunArshia ShakibaCanadaJapan Green Age HigashimotoJineiJapanese Sleigh BrideAisaka YoshiroJapan Emergency ExitYamada GentokuJapan Yoko Kamijo DaisukeJapan
Winning candidate works (shortlist) will be announced at the end of the second month following the application month.
The films selected for the film festival (to be screened at the film festival) will be selected from the shortlist that will be announced monthly until the end of March 2025, and will be announced on the film festival’s official website by the end of April 2025. I will.
This month’s announcements mainly target works submitted by the end of August, but the timing of the announcements may be delayed depending on the circumstances.