Sorry Not Sorry (SNS) is a platform for new and emerging filmmakers to share and reimagine the meanings of “Asianness”. Founded in 2021 as a volunteer-run and not-for-profit platform, we are dedicated to supporting works from various positions and stories about Asian lived experiences.

The inaugural SNS Short Film Project received 82 submissions from over twenty nations and regions, running the gamut from stripped-back narratives to wildly experimental documentaries. Our 2022 Selection featured 16 short films in four curated programmes, respectively following the spatio-temporal flows of memories and experiences and the bodies and feelings of Asian womanhood, motherhood, and queerness. The full program included a two-week free streaming in partnership with Asian Pop-up Cinema (Chicago), and a Special Focus screening of Asian and Asian Diasporic Experience in Non-Fiction Shorts in collaboration with 24 Bond Arts Center, featuring four films from the selection.

We have finished the submission process for our 2025 Short Film Program and are currently in the midst of our selection process. From December 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025, we received 164 submissions from all over the world, including Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. The submissions are diverse, ranging from narrative to documentary, from experimental to animation.

This year, we embrace works on indigeneity and fluidity of Asian cultures, arts, and cosmologies. We hope to seek visual languages that highlight nuances and interdependence with an inter-Asia focus. In addition to our regular entry, the newly opened special entry of Border Cinema will feature works directly related to border ethnography, border crossing, or diasporic experience, as well as those that reflect or challenge the polarization and violence caused by geopolitical borders or non-physical borders.

We will be announcing the final selection and screening schedule in the coming months. We are grateful for the support of filmmakers, audiences, and our community members, and we look forward to reconnecting with you in the theater.