The festival from its beginnings had a specific purpose, to embrace the local community and to convey the flame of its creators and to the educational community by establishing a new relationship between the documentary films and its audience. For these reasons we decided that the Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival (P.I.D.F)shouldn’t take place ONLY online.
The festival will be held in two phases
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| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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5 to 14 February 2021 online renewing like every year our winter appointment, showing only the international program.
18 June to 28 July 2021 with a physical presence will take place the integrated program throughout the network of cities embracing the festival
The Greek program will only be screened at the Summer festival since there is the Jury Prize for the best Greek documentary adopted by the Municipality of Sparta.
This year's festival program (both online&live) includes 58 international and 27 Greek documentaries.
The festival is enriched this year with workshops, seminars, round table discussions, teleconferences, exhibitions.
As part of the tribute, special parallel actions have been organized, such as an international comics exhibition in collaboration with the Babel festival team, collaborations with other festivals and special educational programs aimed at all levels of education.
During the secondphasetherewillbetwo seminars, one masterclass and a comics exhibition in Kalamata.
More importantly:
-“Making a documentary” seminarbyDanishdirectorRobert Rombout for the students of University of Peloponnese.
-”Street Cinema” seminarbyItalianDirectorTekla Taideli for the student of FineArtsUniversity and the locals.
-Masterclasswith comic artists Giorgos Mpotsos and Andrea Bruno.
-International Comics exhibitionwithworks of Greeks and International artists.
-Book signing event with Soloup and his comic book "21: The Battle of the Square".
4 prizes will be awarded at the end of the festival in July 2021
- Best International Documentary Audience Award
- Jury Award for best ‘ gender equality” documentary
- This year the "Sparta Prize" is established, adopted by the Municipality of Sparta. A prize given by a three-member jury for the best Greek documentary.
- Student Award of the University of Peloponnese for the best documentary of the tribute "conquering freedom" in which 20 films participate
All screenings, seminars and parallel actions are free to the public