Shade: The Changing Man (2013)

Beat

In a bland, utilitarian world of order, one worker finds his inner jazz

Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies

A hand drawn animated short by Studio Ghibli.

Perihelion

Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.

Real Gods Require Blood

Manchester, 1990. On a troubled estate, Alice is roped into babysitting for her neighbour, whose children claim to feed a nightly visitor from Hell. Between gangland tensions, local superstition and drug withdrawal, Alice must decide whether to abandon her new wards or stay the night.

American Dad: The New CIA

The American Dad short film, which preceded the theatrical run of the 2005 feature Fever Pitch, is about Stan Smith touring his work days in the CIA and his "normal" everyday life.

Hudson Geese

A goose remembers his last migration.

Eli

A true story from the realms of high strangeness, magical thinking, and manic delusion.

Rakka

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.

Walter

A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.

The Laughter Congress

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What a Tiger!

Story about a little kitten who wanted to be a tiger.

The Sled

A red squirrel cub, amazing bullfinches, and dazzling white snow. The fluffy squirrel is sledging down the hill and having fun.

Magic Hock

The story of a hare who accidentally receives Santa Claus’s staff. Now he will teach his bullies a lesson: with this staff he can turn anyone into anything.

42 One Dream Rush

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

Spinning

Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.

Bugged

Red's peaceful morning routine is interrupted by a pesky visitor.

The Crazies

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time

A short film screened alongside Gekijouban Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!.

Lacrimosa

A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.

The Rabbit Hunters

A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth.)

The Lighthouse

Father, son, the lighthouse as the center of their lives. Both grow up, the son leaving every day to pursue his studies, then returning to an increasingly elderly father who welcomes him with the same warmth, taking him, as he has always done over the years, to the piano to play together.

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

Dust Buddies

Dust Buddies is a story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz and Lint, who live peacefully under a couch. When an evil maid comes to clean the house and sucks Fuzz into her vacuum, Lint must overcome his fears and set out to rescue his friend.

Mon Copain?

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Le vœu

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Popsy

In this adaptation of a Stephen King short story, Weber’s addiction to poker leads him into deep trouble. Forced to cover his debt to Mr Rudy, he reaches a point of no return.

Thong Girl Vs Xolta from Outer Space

Thong Girl reluctantly teams up with alien female Xolta to defeat evil warlord Vish'ss, who is bent on destroying planet Earth.

Exploring the Reef

Jean-Michael Cousteau's documentary about the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting interrupted by characters from Disney's Finding Nemo.

The Talisman

This short film, based on the novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, was produced to demonstrate the direction of a full Talisman adaptation.

Chainsaw Richard

A boy and his ghost friend go to see a movie.

Dream

The short follows the dream of a young boy in which strange whale teleports him to a fantasy land where a happy cat named Pero (modeled after the character in the Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko anime that serves as Toei Animation's mascot) appears. The piece is entirely dialogueless.

Latimos

Discover the heartbeat of the other and, along the way, find your own.

Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger with Donbrothers

Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger with Donbrothers is a Japanese superhero tokusatsu crossover short film released exclusively on TTFC, featuring Donbrothers teaming up with Hurricanegers.

Les p'tits explorateurs

A collection of four animated short films, around the themes of friendship and tolerance.

Birds

Two brothers talk about cars, Altoids, and mortality while birdwatching in the woods.

Mémo

Louis, a retired man, resists the overprotection of his daughter Nina to keep his independence.

Breakfast on the Grass

Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.

Dandelion the Puffy Cheeks

An inquisitive grasshopper could not understand why a dandelion has a chubby face and a thin stalk. With his excessive interest, he scared the dandelion, which began to call doctors and complain to its appearance. A dilemma appeared after medical advice a doctor gave. The dandelion did not know that its fears were groundless and would soon dispell.

Destino

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

Strawinsky and the Mysterious House

A magical adventure inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia, Walt Disney animated musicals and the parables by Jesus Christ "Strawinsky and the Mysterious House" tells the story of four talking animals that discover a hidden mansion in the middle of a secret forest. They start exploring the house and encounter strange inhabitants such as a depressed cello, a manic troll and an overweight creature that is addicted to the books in its basement. As Strawinsky - the hero of the story - tries to solve the mysteries surrounding the house, his friends get trapped in the underground library. It's up to Strawinsky to find a way to break the dark spell and help his friends to escape from the evil lurking within the mysterious house.

Golden Time

In Japan, during the eighties, a recently discarded old television set refuses to accept its fate and tries to break out of the junkyard where it has been sent.

Knight Watch

Knight Watch saves the city from The Devil's Rose!

Pokémon: Pikachu's Rescue Adventure

One day, Pikachu and its friends are walking along when they suddenly fall through a Diglett hole and into Pokémon Valley, a secret location that no one knows about. Pikachu and its buddies tell the Pokémon that they could use some help looking for Togepi, who fell through the hole first. The group sets off and eventually finds Togepi in the Exeggcute nest—but one of the Exeggcute is missing. That leads the group on another hunt; this time, though, Pikachu and its friends come back to the nest empty-handed. That’s when a storm begins to brew, filling Pokémon valley with roaring thunder and gusts of wind that almost blow the friends—and the Exeggcute nest—away! Are the friends going to be able to keep the nest safe and reunite the Exeggcute?

Drums West

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

The Road Ahead (Where do we go from here?) Director's cut

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get out of this alive?

Rocks

The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they've got their own little problems to deal with - But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behavior starts to threaten Hew's and Kew's stoic peacefulness...

Dueling Dumplings

Po and Zhen battle over whose dumplings reign supreme.