34th Edition Shortsfest: Program 3

Tuesday, April 1, 8pm

Wheeler Opera House | 320 E Hyman Ave, Aspen

2025 Shortsfest

$28* General Admission | $20* Aspen Film Members

*Includes $3 Aspen ShowTix ticketing fee

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Aspen Shortsfest is recognized as one of the premier short film festivals in North America. Each April, enthusiastic audiences, filmmakers, and special guests from around the globe gather to participate in public screenings, panels, workshops, and other festivities that spotlight the art and craft of short-form cinema.

Films

COLORADO PREMIERE

AND GRANNY WOULD DANCE

10 MIN

Six-year-old Marmar listens to the stories her grandmother’s friends tell. She remembers how Granny would start to dance whenever her Grandad played the accordion.

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US PREMIERE

NOW, HEAR ME GOOD

15 MIN

A musician living abroad ponders his sense of community, a self-imposed exile, and what propels him to create.

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THROUGH THIN ICE

11 MIN

A scientist faces a desperate series of choices when her dog plunges through the ice during a run on the Great Salt Lake shores.

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COLORADO PREMIERE

THE WEIGHT OF A DOG

16 MIN

New retiree Dawn’s world is up-ended when she’s tasked with chaperoning her adult daughter’s abortion. The generational differences that have shaped their experiences of womanhood clash, and Dawn grapples with the limitations that have shaped her life.

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COLORADO PREMIERE

S THE WOLF

10 MIN

France

A man recounts his capillary peregrinations from adolescence until now, tracing a journey from early trauma to first love to the losses of both his hair and the most important person in his life.

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WORLD PREMIERE

CLEAN SLATE

9 MIN

Two Asian nonbinary actors and best friends must make some sacrifices when they go up for the same breakout role.

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COLORADO PREMIERE

CHIKHA (QUEEN)

24 MIN

France, Morocco

Seventeen-year-old Fatine must choose between embracing her family’s chikha musical legacy or pursuing a safer future with her disapproving boyfriend.

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34th Edition Shortsfest: Program 3

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