Tripoli is emerging this year as one of the most important pillars of the 11th Peloponnese International Documentary Festival, hosting a rich and innovative educational program that goes beyond simple screenings. The Arcadian capital, co-organized with the Municipality of Tripoli, is being transformed into a center for creation and learning, focusing on the Tripoli Music School during November 2025.

This year's program includes two exceptionally interesting and pioneering music seminars:

1. Seminar "Music for Moving Image" (George Panagiotopoulos)

A central position in the educational activities is held by the seminar “Music for Moving Image,” an initiative that brings together cinema and original music composition.

Under the guidance of the distinguished composer and researcher, George Panagiotopoulos, participants—primarily students and musicians of the Music School—are trained in the techniques of composition, orchestration, and live audio-visual synchronization, with the goal of creating a parallel musical narrative.

George Panagiotopoulos (Athens, 1980) is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, and researcher, with extensive work for theater and cinema in Greece and abroad. He has collaborated with international bodies such as the UK National Health Service (NHS) and the UK Labour Party, and his works have been included in three international collections of film music.

Orchestration for the Documentary "Daniel"

The practical application of the seminar involves the orchestration of original music for the documentary “Daniel” by Pavlos Vissariou. The Festival warmly thanks the director, Mr. Pavlos Vissariou, for the kind concession of his documentary, which serves as the base material for this significant educational and artistic activity.  

The first live presentation of the completed musical work for the documentary “Daniel,” accompanied by the documentary screening, will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 20:00 (8 p.m.) at the Tripoli Music School, the venue where it was created. The second and repeated presentation of the work will take place in Kalamata, the central city of the Festival, on Sunday, November 30, 2025, as part of the Closing Ceremony, concluding the 10-day cycle dedicated to cinematic art and education

2. Seminar Beatbox & Aerophones (Nikos Diminakis)

The seminar focuses on the innovative combined application of beatbox—a vocal technique that originated in hip-hop culture as a rhythmic-melodic accompaniment but has now become an autonomous field of artistic expression—with wind instruments (such as flute, saxophone, didgeridoo). Participants will explore how beatbox functions as an extension of the human need to experiment with sounds and integrate them into a more artful structure.

Nikos Diminakis, who has studied counterpoint and holds the first officially recognized saxophone diploma from the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, has been actively involved since 2014 with vocal techniques such as overtone singing and beatbox, aiming for their simultaneous application on wind instruments. His pioneering work was documented in Gina Georgiadou’s film, “Beatbox & Aerophones - Nikos Diminakis,” which premiered at the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 2017, was presented at the 4th PIDF, and was broadcast by ERT3.

The educational activities in Tripoli reaffirm the Festival's commitment to investing in the development and outreach of the Region, building bridges between professionals and the new generation of artists.

Masterclass "Between Cinema and Photography: Directing Reality" (Robert Rombout)

The Tripoli program is enriched by the repetition of the masterclass by the acclaimed director Robert Rombout, which will take place in the hall of the Tripoli Philotechnical Club (Φιλοτεχνικός Όμιλος Τρίπολης) on November 24, at 5 p.m., in collaboration with the Tripolis' Photography Festival. The masterclass offers an in-depth analysis of audio-visual narratives, focusing on the relationship between the cinematic image and photography and how reality is directed in documentary filmmaking.