We are proud to announce an official selection films for SSF2026 edition. We received 2,549 film submissions from 94 countries and realigns.

We have selected 91 films from 28 countries and realigns.

International Competition

1⃣ International programmes

2⃣ Family & Children programme

3⃣ National programmes (Japanese production films)

4⃣ Japan Premiere programme (Japanese production films)

5⃣ Midnight programme

6⃣ Drunken Night programme

7⃣ Outdoor Adventure Cinema programme

Out of Competition

8⃣ Special Screening programme (Japanese production films)

Hokkaido Selection

9⃣ Hokkaido Selection programme

International Competition Programmes

1⃣ International programmes, from I-A to I-E

Screening programme | Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By runtime order, 28 films

I-E | IN GOD WE TRUST | Quentin Puiraveau | Animation | France | 2025 | 0:02:43
I-E | On The Line | Anastasia Itkina | Fiction, Drama | Canada, Ukraine | 2025 | 0:08:34
I-A | FAN | Philippe Berthelet | Fiction, Comedy | Canada | 2025 | 0:08:38
I-A | Tomorrow I will | Eva Vázquez de Reoyo | Fiction, Comedy | Spain | 2026 | 0:09:00
I-B | Arguments in Favor of Love | Gabriel Abrantes | Animation | Portugal | 2025 | 0:09:00
I-A | A Trapped Dog | Xinying Lao | Fiction, Drama | China, United States | 2026 | 0:09:51 | Student Film
I-C | TAMASHI | Ashima Shiraishi, Jess X. Snow | Documentary | China, France, Japan, United States | 2026 | 0:12:56
I-B | Dear Mother | Theodor Solin | Fiction, Comedy | Sweden | 2025 | 0:13:00
I-B | Notes From Planet Three | Simon Ellis | Experimental | United Kingdom | 2025 | 0:13:40
I-E | The Man in the Showers | Hakim Atoui | Fiction, Comedy | France | 2025 | 0:13:48
I-D | Adgwa Ata | Zsuzsanna Kreif | Animation | France, Hungary | 2026 | 0:14:30
I-D | THE DREAM IS A SNAIL | Thien An Nguyen | Fiction, Comedy | South Korea, Vietnam | 2026 | 0:15:00
I-D | God is shy | Jocelyn Charles | Animation | France | 2025 | 0:15:00
I-B | SYNC | Luboš Vacke | Fiction, Comedy | Czechia | 2026 | 0:15:45
I-B | So Rock! | Fangbai Liu | Fiction, Drama | China | 2025 | 0:16:09
I-E | Before the Sea Forgets | Ngoc Duy Le | Fiction, Drama | Singapore | 2025 | 0:17:00
I-D | The Life Cycle of A Grey Ant | CARAZ | Fiction, Experimental | Canada | 2025 | 0:17:23
I-E | Brute | Jérémy Comte | Fiction, Experimental | Canada | 2026 | 0:18:15
I-A | Tutti | Rong-Zuo Zhuang | Fiction, Drama | Taiwan | 2026 | 0:18:33
I-C | My AI Election | Håvard Bustnes | Documentary | Norway | 2026 | 0:18:42
I-C | A Wolf in the Suburbs | Amélie Hardy | Documentary | Canada | 2026 | 0:19:00
I-A | Summer Cemetery | Valèria Cuní Capellà | Fiction, Drama | Spain | 2025 | 0:20:00 | Student Film
I-C | The Tuners | Pawel Chorzepa | Documentary | Poland | 2026 | 0:20:00
I-C | Always wanted to be God, never wanted to do good | Noa Epars, Marvin Merkel | Documentary | Switzerland | 2025 | 0:20:07 | Student Film
I-A | Animalia | Marius Rolfsvåg | Fiction, SF | Norway | 2026 | 0:25:00
I-B | Loynes | Dorian Jespers | Fiction, Drama | Belgium, France, North Macedonia, United Kingdom | 2025 | 0:25:03
I-D | Hanako | Eunuk Jeong | Fiction, Thriller | South Korea | 2026 | 0:29:53
I-E | It’s All Because of Her | Daria Kopiec | Fiction, Drama | Poland | 2025 | 0:30:00

2⃣ Family & Children programme

Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By runtime order, 10 films

The Sky Was Candy | Anh Tú Nguyen | Animation | Germany | 2025 | 0:03:00 | Student Film
Okashina dagashi-ya | Yuko Yamada | Animation | Japan | 2026 | 0:03:40
Sketches on Ice | Marion Auvin | Animation | Belgium, France | 2025 | 0:04:10
Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy：Tsuri-bari Fish caught in summer grass | Takeshi Yashiro | Animation | Japan | 2026 | 0:05:00
Catch that fish! | Julia Ragot, Gabrielle Montané, Hector de Ghaisne de Bourmont, Ilona Laouchez, Florent Delay, André Yu | Animation | France | 2025 | 0:06:25 | Student Film
POSTMAN | YUUUKI | Animation | Japan | 2026 | 0:07:00
Piccolo Piccolo | Marta Gennari | Animation | France, Switzerland | 2025 | 0:08:30
Into the forest | Antonin Niclass | Animation | Switzerland | 2026 | 0:09:55
Bats & Bugs | Lena von Döhren | Animation | Switzerland | 2026 | 0:11:00
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe! | Andrea Szelesová | Animation | Slovakia | 2025 | 0:11:00

3⃣ National programmes (Japanese production films)

Screening programme | Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By screening order, 11 films

N-A | The Kindergarten that Became Starlight | yutaka obara, koji nozawa | Documentary | Japan | 2026 | 0:12:46
N-A | Bucketman | Yakata Kanata | Animation | Japan | 2026 | 0:07:20 | Student Film
N-A | Don’t be scared! | Riku Takahashi | Fiction, Comedy | Japan | 2026 | 0:09:07
N-A | Who Needs a Cliff? | Yu Sanbonsuge | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:19:34
N-A | See you tomorrow. | Keiya Ando | Animation | Japan | 2025 | 0:09:56
N-A | The Distance | Shinya Tamada | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:30:00

N-B | Eri | Honami Yano | Animation | France, Japan | 2026 | 0:12:08
N-B | Round and Round | Hayato Otogi | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:13:26
N-B | REST | Ryotaro Miyajima | Animation | Japan | 2025 | 0:05:04
N-B | Passed Light | Akira Sudo | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:30:00
N-B | A Story of Divine Wind | Johnson Cheng | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:10:08
N-B | Unknown | NANASE NAKAMURA | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:14:00

4⃣ Japan Premiere programme (Japanese production films)

Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By screening order, 4 films

Who Was Dreaming | Ryusei Emi | Fiction, Drama | UK, Japan | 2026 | 0:14:58
Koku | Tamami Kusaka | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:20:48
the Wound Spring | Gentoku YAMADA | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:17:57
Another Family | Zuimaro Awashima | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:28:13

5⃣ Midnight programme

6⃣ Drunken Night programme

Screening programme | Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By runtime order, 8 films + 1 film (from I-D)

Drunken Night & Midnight | Like Rabbits | Henry Carson | Fiction, Comedy | United Kingdom | 2026 | 0:07:54
Drunken Night | Adventure with Bear | SAKTHI VENKATNARAYANAN ARUNACHALAM | Fiction, Comedy | Japan | 2025 | 0:13:38
Drunken Night | Tourists | Maria Karlovic | Animation. Comedy | France, Slovakia | 2025 | 0:14:57
Drunken Night & I-D | God is shy | Jocelyn Charles | Animation, Fantastic | France | 2025 | 0:15:00
Midnight | Praying Mantis | Joe Hsieh | Animation | Taiwan | 2025 | 0:18:09
Drunken Night & Midnight | Merrimundi | Niles Atallah | Animation | Chile | 2025 | 0:20:00
Drunken Night | FICTION | Ambroise Rateau | Fiction, Comedy | France | 2026 | 0:21:37
Midnight | How To Disappear | George Thomson, Lukas Schrank | Fiction, Thriller | Australia, Japan, United Kingdom | 2026 | 0:22:20
Midnight | Afterwork | Mathis Descamps | Fiction, Drama | France | 2026 | 0:25:50

7⃣ Outdoor Adventure Cinema programme

Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By screening order, 8 films

Blu’s | Rajesh PK | Animation, Environmental | India | 2025-04-04 | 0:09:50
Dockumentary: The Paddlers’ Dock | Mara Miksch | Dockumentary | Canada | 2026 | 0:10:00
Guides Turn Sights into Insights HOKKAIDO -OKUSHIRI- | Yuki Yoshii | | Japan | 2026-02-04 | 0:08:09
The Drift Ice Freediving | Shintaro Muro | Dockumentary | Japan | 2025-01-27 | 0:10:00
Echo of Turns | Takuya Mukai | Dockumentary | Japan | 2025-09-14 | 0:14:20
The Big Blue Divide | Kenneth Corben | Dockumentary, Nature | United States | 2026-05-01 | 0:03:08
Sikoqqinngisaannassooq | Adam Sébire | Documentary, Climate Change | Greenland, Norway | 2025-01-14 | 0:15:00
FREEDOM | Ivica Kostelić | Croatia | 2025-11-04 | 0:10:44

Out of Competition

8⃣ Special Screening programme (Japanese production films)

Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By screening order, 6 films

Joe Hisaishi – Summer (Official Short Film) | Yu Sanbonsuge | Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:07:05
A Very Straight Neck | Neo Sora | Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:10:35
mopim | Yutaka Mizuochi | Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:11:42
Michiko’s Encounters on the Road | Emika Takei | Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:13:25
The empty vessel | Miyuki Matsuda | Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:15:00
Taste of Absence | Yoshinari Sakata | Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:27:03

Hokkaido Selection

9⃣ Hokkaido Selection programme

Film Title | Director | Genre | Country | Year | Runtime | Student Film

By screening order, 7 films

The Void Who Kotaro Kanno | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2025 | 0:13:10 | Student Film
mr owl | Yuria Oku |Mucis Video | Japan | 2026 | 0:04:35
The Man Who Came Back From The Future | Yuri Kakuya | Fiction, Drama | Canada | 2026 | 0:05:22 | Student Film
Oromi and Juriemon | Showgo Ookawa | Fiction,Comedy | Japan | 2026 | 0:25:00
IIKOTO SHINBUN /A Newspaper of Good Things | David Aoki | Fiction, AI | Japan | 2026 | 0:07:21
STILL IN THE BLOOM | Tani Shogo | Documentary | Japan | 2026 | 0:15:00
Listen Closely, and Life Grows Warmer | KOSUKE WATANABE | Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2026 | 0:09:50

Congratulations!