Submissions are now open for our 2025 selection. We invite filmmakers from around the world, and call for films that play with the multiplicity of Asian identities across the globe. This year, we are interested in 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, we will open a special entry of Border Cinema, welcoming all 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 are eager to hear your voice and can’t wait to have you join the party. Submit your work today or before our February 28th deadline!
Sorry Not Sorry is a platform for new and emerging filmmakers to share and re-imagine 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 Sorry Not Sorry Short Film Project received eighty-two 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.