Alloftheday・Jun 06, 2022–Jun 20, 2022・

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022 (aka SSFF & Asia 2022) is Asia’s biggest international short film festival and it’s accredited by the Academy Awards. This year, it’ll take place throughout June at various venues in Tokyo as well as online.

This year’s festival theme is “Meta Cinema: Transcend, Discover, Begin” and the festival will have a virtual theater experience, short films made with AI-generated scripts and an analysis of films using brain waves.

Among other categories, the Smartphone Film Competition supported by Sony’s Xperia will take place for the second time in SSFF & Asia 2022. This year, it includes a short film submission by a 13-year-old director, the youngest in the history of the competition.

Online screening dates: until June 30