EPCOT Becoming: Inside the Transformation

A look into the underground community of rule-breakers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and how their actions led to the disappearance of an Audio-Animatronic named Buzzy.

Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale models, the Preview Center, and Walt Disney discussing his hopes for the project from an earlier 1966 film.

A promotional short film hosted by Walt Disney, filmed on October 27, 1966, less than two months before his death. Here he details plans for the "Florida Project," later known as Disney World, and how his EPCOT concept will be integrated into it.

Martin Short narrates the story of "his own" birth to explain the subjects of sex, conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an entertaining and educational way.

A documentary short on Disney's 'Tomorrow Land' DVD.

Your passport to the world! Rediscover the fascinating worlds of EPCOT Center in this entertaining souvenir videocassette. Travel again to the realms of human ideas, imagination and inventions in Future World. Revisit World Showcase, where North, South, East and West meet in an international celebration of cultures, climaxing in the extravaganza that is IllumiNations. Stunning photography captures the unique sights and sounds of EPCOT Center for you to thrill to again and again.

A promotional video celebrating the 1994 Barbie Show at Epcot and various Barbie products.

Danny Kaye tours EPCOT Center, singing its praises in Future World and the World Showcase. He meets celebrities and park characters like Dreamfinder and Figment, and speaks with some of the people responsible for creating the park.

On a film reel electrified by static charges, we meet five people who survived the impact of lightning.

All across the globe, Chinatowns are under threat of disappearing – and along with them, the rich history of a community who fought from the margins for a place to belong. Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America.

The oldest Quebecois Benedictine convent open its gates to a documentary filmmaker for the first time. Observed up close, life behind its walls is busier than one would expect. About twenty cloistered nuns, most of them over 70, share their daily life with diligence and humor. A contemplative portrait of a community of sisterhood and solidarity emerges, punctuated by prayer, work and games evenings.

Zoe McIntosh introduces us to Peter One, King of Caravans, and his realm, the Bignell Street Motel Caravan Park in Whanganui. Bignell Street has a reputation for being a place of last resort for the down and out, where people with nowhere else to go can always find a caravan roof for their heads. A social butterfly and a self-admitted garage sale addict, motel manager Peter says he acts as a de facto social worker to the weird and wonderful itinerant inhabitants of his trailer park, although some claim he’s just as strange and desperate as they are. - NZIFF 2013

Ich glaub, ich mach nicht mal Filme, ich glaub, ich filme nur irgendwas, um irgendwem zu beweisen, dass ich eine Person bin

Silent footage shot on the set of CASQUE D’OR provides a glimpse of film director Jacques Becker at work.

It was just two days before Christmas in 1958 when John Cruitt's mother died after being seriously ill with multiple sclerosis. At the time, he was a student in Cecile Doyle's third grade class. And an act of kindness she showed him became stamped in his memory. So, more than 50 years later, he wrote her a letter.

A quarter of a century ago, the documentary film by Juris Podnieks “Is It Easy to Be Young?” was a triumph on the cinema screens of the Soviet Union. Has it become easier for today's youth of Russia than it was for their peers in the USSR?

An attempt to connect the past and present time through poems, stories, documents; connect the spaces from Kronstadt to Moscow with the voices of the past, the words of Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, A. Akhmatova.

Three homeless people hide from the winter cold in a plywood hut near Paveletsky railway station in Moscow. One day it occurs to them to build a real house. Maybe it will change something in their lives?

A human story about a man stuck between worlds. Boring observations of the everyday life of an old woman.

Parents are not allowed into the Kremlin for the New Year Tree, children must go there alone. And now, after visiting the most important New Year tree in Russia, the children go to the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, where their parents are waiting for them. Faces of children, adults. Sometimes this exit turns out to be quite successful, and sometimes it simply crosses out the previous festival. And in any case, he always says a lot.