Sorry Not Sorry (SNS) 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 SNS 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.

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!

Terms and Conditions

In order to submit a film, you must own the rights or have permission from the owner.

All films should focus on Asian Identity themes and/or include Asian characters.

Any Foreign film that is not in English must have English subtitles.

Maximum length allowed is 40 minutes.

There is a 2 USD submission fee for each submitted film. All fees are non-refundable.

Films must be submitted with a private link (Vimeo, Youtube, FilmFreeway, or self hosted). Other formats are currently not accepted.

SNS has no premiere status requirements.

Submitting your movie, you authorize SNS to use, distribute and share the film poster, trailer, synopsis and movie stills in our website and social media.

Not all the submissions will be chosen for the project. Sorry Not Sorry reserves the right to the interpretation of final selection.

When completing the film submission form, you must agree to all terms, conditions and guidelines as outlined above. All submissions must be received no later than February 28, 2025.


For any inquiries, please contact sorrynotsorryshorts@gmail.com.

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  • This was an amazing opportunity and thrilled to be selected to be part of this curation of global works. As this was the inaugural event can't comment on networking aspect as it was done remotely - online.
    But the organisation and communication was great. Would happily submit again to this festival and recommend too

    October 2022
  • Mackenzie Leigh

    We had an awesome time screening our film at Sorry Not Sorry! The programming was tasteful, the promotion was effective, and communication was above and beyond. A very welcoming and well-run festival! :)

    October 2022