The 10th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival warmly thanks the Embassy of Italy in Athens, with which it once again develops a cordial collaboration, with the art of the big screen as its guiding principle.

The 10th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival has initiated an exceptional collaboration with the Italian Embassy and Cultural Attaché Francesco Neri, with the aim of promoting the art of documentary filmmaking in both countries.

This year, the festival's official guest is Italian director Lia Beltrami. A selection of her work will be showcased throughout the festival. Additionally, she will be conducting a three-hour masterclass on documentaries and human rights in Nafplio, at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese.

This year, the Italian entries embrace a wide range of social issues: from the struggle for the assertion of human rights to the values ​​of the natural environment in relation to the development of the individual within the respective anthropogenic one. Each film is a tessera in a palimpsest with remarkable cultural references that are not only about the local but much more the international. After all, within Western legal systems, human rights are considered fundamental rights and non-negotiable freedoms that belong to all people, regardless of nationality, gender, race, religion, language or any other status. The Italian seal, i.e. the seal of a country that contributed significantly to the formation of the basic values ​​of European culture, based on the rich Roman tradition, could not be missing. Through this long-term intellectual evolution, we have arrived at a Western society, where inclusive politics is now an axis of re-creation and elimination of stereotypes. Exclusions, natural or artificial, begin to be catalyzed, not to mark insurmountable obstacles, borders that establish strict dividing walls-grids between people. The Italian entries of the festival, in other words, listen to the needs and tendencies of post-post-modernism, having as a background the inherently penetrating gaze of documentaries.

• The related movies are as follows:
• Dead weight, directed by Francesco Del Grosso 
• Lagunaria, directed by Giovanni Pellegrini. Mr. Pellegrini will be present at the Festival site, a fact that particularly honors all the members of the organization as well as the art-loving audience.
• La Malavita (The Underworld), directed by Paolo Colangeli
• Guardians of the Rainforest, directed by Lia & Marianna Beltrami
• Tears and Dreams, directed by Lia Beltrami
• Wells of Hope, directed by Lia Beltrami
• Christos, the Last Child," directed by Ciulia Amatti

A burst of song, directed by Lia Beltrami. Ms. Beltrami is an honored person this year, and therefore during her stay she will organize a masterclass on the art of documentary, in which students from the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Peloponnese will participate.