🎬 SUBMIT YOUR FILM: bit.ly/SGShorts26Form

SINGAPORE SHORTS is an annual showcase organised by the Asian Film Archive that celebrates the boldness and diversity of Singapore short films. The programme will feature a broad range of new works chosen by an esteemed selection panel. There will be online discussions with the filmmakers, critical writings, as well as a special guest curated programme.

The final submission deadline has been extended to: Friday, 3 April 2026, 11:59pm

Screenings will be held at the Oldham Theatre in August 2026.

More information and submission criteria in the link above.
Any additional questions can be emailed to outreach@asianfilmarchive.org

Selection Panel

Anna Lovecchio
Curator, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Anna Lovecchio is a Singapore-based curator committed to fostering artistic research and building platforms for interdisciplinary knowledge production. Since 2016, she has worked at NTU CCA Singapore, where she has developed a broad range of programmes, including residencies, exhibitions, publications, and the podcast AiRCAST. In her previous tenure as Junior Curator at Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art (Genoa, Italy), she worked on major exhibitions with artists such as Tomás Saraceno, Tony Conrad,  Pino Pascali, Julieta Aranda, and Zhang Enli, among others. She is a former Executive Editor of Around Photography International and holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Bologna and an MA in Contemporary Art and Museum Studies from Tufts University.

Cheng Lijie
Sound designer, production sound mixer, producer

Lijie is a sound designer, production sound mixer and producer based in sunny Singapore. A fellow of Busan’s Asian Film Academy and Berlinale Talents, his works have travelled widely to multiple major festivals — Locarno, Busan, BFI London, Sheffield Docfest, Rotterdam, etc. Most recently, he mixed and designed Pek Jiahao and Ang Jiajun’s 2025 short As if to Nothing (Telluride, Winner – Zinebi Best Short) and Nelson Yeo’s 2023 feature Dreaming & Dying (Winner – Locarno Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present and Swatch First Feature Award). He is also a two-time winner of NYFA’s Best Sound Design Award and a selected recipient of DPA Microphone’s global sponsorship program in 2021.

Alongside a group of friends, Lijie is also currently involved in creating a pilot film education-exposure program for students in Singapore. Outside of film, Lijie has a deep-rooted fascination with Buddhism, Daoism, Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and Chinese history and culture. In his free time, Lijie enjoys reading and going for leisurely tea sessions with friends. Jio him out for tea someday!

Deepagcharan Chandran
Theatre manager, Asian Film Archive

Deepag is currently the theatre manager at Asian Film Archive. His previous experience includes working as the Program Executive at The Projector, an independent cinema. His background reflects a strong interest in film industry engagement, demonstrated through diverse roles such as event management during his stint at Singapore Film Society, technical support, and film programming. He also served as the Festival Programmer at the annual Japanese Film Festival Singapore from 2022 to 2025, working alongside Japan Foundation, Japan Creative Centre and Singapore Film Society.

Goh Yun Jin (Marl)
Co-founder, Knuckles & Notch

Goh Yun Jin (Marl) is a Singapore-based creative and co-founder of Knuckles & Notch. She loves exploring visual culture through art, design, film, print, and is drawn to how stories unfold across different mediums. Cinema, to her, holds human lives, politics, unfamiliar emotions, and the strange details of entire worlds in a single frame, influencing culture and art through cycles of response, resistance, and reinvention. Marl believes film keeps empathy alive, especially in a time increasingly shaped by technology and AI, and she carries that belief into how she approaches storytelling, research, and image-making in both her personal and studio practice, which she sees as vital to sustaining this ecosystem.

Tzang Merwyn Tong
Filmmaker and educator

Tzang Merwyn Tong is an award-winning independent filmmaker and educator, widely regarded as an early voice of Asian alternative cinema. His films, including Faeryville and A Wicked Tale, have premiered at major international festivals such as Rotterdam, Berlin, Montreal and Paris, earning a cult following. Named alongside Jia Zhangke as one of “Five Directors Reshaping Asian Cinema” by the South China Morning Post, Tzang is also the founder of Zen-Mind Filmmaking and the First Shot(s) Film Festival. He has served as a jury member at the 7th Hanoi International Film Festival, and as Jury Chair at the 11th Bakunawa Fantastic Film Festival, championing bold, risk-taking voices in cinema.