33rd Shortsfest 2024 Making Movies Matter

Aspen FilmEducates: Making Movies Matter — ALL FILMS

Expired April 30, 2024 9:00 PM
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29 films in package
Aspen FilmEducates: MAKING MOVIES MATTER
Films are available online for educators to use in their classrooms at their convenience.
THE TORNADO OUTSIDE
Embracing the chaos of life.
CARTOON OF A CAT SLEEPING
As the story gets more and more chaotic, one big question looms: Will the cat ever wake up?
WE EXIST IN MEMORY
How do you rebuild “home” from memories for a new generation growing up in displacement?
I NEED IT YESTERDAY
When his boss insists that he needs a report "yesterday", Chris embarks on an epic quest to send a message back in time.
Closed captions available
HEART OF WATER
Aspen Film Camp documentary.
I CHOOSE YOU
A film about international and transracial adoption and how one young adoptee, after surviving a life-threatening congenital condition, is redefining what family means in America.
YUCK!
Yuck! Kissing on the mouth is disgusting. But secretly, little Léo really wants to try it…
DASH, AGE 92, SNOWBOARDER
(Elementary) There’s something spiritual about riding the snow…
BORDER HOPPER
When a Latinx filmmaker is offered a dream job abroad, she discovers a supernatural way to navigate the U.S. immigration system and get the coveted travel permit she needs. But what seems like a magic solution soon shows unexpected consequences.
HOLIDAY HOUSE
A content creator feels obligated to let her internet benefactor visit her workshop.
GOLDEN CHILD (2023)
A young woman is reunited with her childhood friend at a pool party and reckons with the fact that he used to pee on her.
PRIMETIME MOTHER
The audition process for a game show becomes the latest test of a long-suffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity.
THE MASTERPIECE
Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.
MUNA
A British-Somali teen must navigate a confusing mourning period for a family member she never met.
Closed captions available
WIRE & CLOTH
Anika accompanies her mercurial mother to a wealthy friend’s home, where they connect over fantasy – and doomed longing.
Closed captions available
BOGOTÁ STORY
In 1992, as Colombia faces an era of drug violence, car bombs, and daily power outages, a young mother in Bogotá receives an internship opportunity in New York and eventually must choose between her family and her dreams.
SEAHORSE PARENTS
Four transgender parents share their stories of what carrying their future children as transgender males is like
Closed captions available
FRATELLI CARBONAI
As Italy lurches to the far right, a Malian migrant finds a place amongst a family of charcoal burners in the remote Calabrian mountains.
BEEN THERE
How tourists become invaders, hunting for the best pictures.
ESSEX GIRLS
Flipping the "Essex Girl" trope, this coming-of-age film explores Black British girlhood and magical female friendships in 2009 Essex.
Closed captions available
SHÉ (SNAKE)
When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.
SIRENA
A young Dominican woman is forced to rethink her move to the US after a dark family secret surfaces.
XIE XIE, OLLIE
A biracial man seeking connection with his Chinese heritage confronts unexpected challenges in understanding his identity.
Closed captions available
GABBY HILLS
(Middle) It’s summer, Gaby has hit puberty. Her life is about to change.
AS IT WAS
Lera returns to her hometown, where nothing is as it was before.
REDLIGHTS
An innocent evening out at a local bar takes a life and death turn for two Indigenous women.
THIS IS TMI
Big boobs vs. small boobs? A group of ladies discusses who has it worse.
Closed captions available
LOVE TO THE MAX
A family fights to stay together in the face of persecution by the Texas government for loving their transgender kid.

Making Movies Matter

Monday 4/1 - Friday 4/30

Free online for educators only


Aspen Film provides films and themed shorts packages (e.g. immigration, the environment, creative storytelling) to enrich curriculum in language, visual arts, history, world geography, LGBTQ+ issues, and the social sciences. Films are available online for educators to use in their classrooms at their convenience.


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