Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Ssff & Asia) 2025, one of Asia‘s largest international short film festivals accredited by the US Academy Awards®, will be held from Wed, May 28 to Wed, June 11 June at multiple venues in Tokyo and online. The online venues will begin streaming some of the programs in advance from Thu, April 24 and will run until Mon, June 30.

4,592 entries from 108 countries and regions

275 submissions for short films using AI

While many of the films submitted to this year’s festival focused on family ties and the generation gap in each region, half of the films in the International category depicted the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Trends noted in the entries include universal adolescence, trans youth perspectives from Generation Z and stories with dementia as a motif.

AI-based entries, which have been growing over the past few years, numbered more than 240 this year. While more and more films...