Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival
  • Little Satchmo

    To the world, Louis Armstrong is iconic — a symbol of musical genius, unparalleled success, and unassailable character. To Sharon, he was simply Dad. Armstrong’s wholesome, non-threatening image preserved his singular career as a black performer with unfettered access to a white man's world. Yet he was more than a caricature; he had desires, he had longings, and ...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 19:30 - Filiatra

    Duration: 61 Minutes

  • 4caves - 4seasons: Journey Into The Veins Of The Earth

    Greece is known for its historic shipwrecks, the famous Greek summer, the ideal temperature, and the pristine sea waters, attracting divers from all over the world. For us, however, this country has much more to offer. It has four seasons and about 10,000 caves, underwater and above ground, most unexplored and uncharted. The last water frontier of our planet. The...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:30 - Nafplion
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:45 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 17:30 - Dimitsana

    Duration: 29 Minutes

  • 8 Seconds

    A French filmmaker, stunned by the discovery of an unknown relative who died as a martyr in Germany during WWII, embarks on a personal investigation to reconstruct his family's lost history. 

    In 2005, when filmmaker Jean-Marie Vinclair filmed the unveiling of the “Raymond Vinclair” square, he was stunned: why was this rel...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 19:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 79 Minutes

  • 89

    89

    Director: Aoi Ito Country: Estonia

    This short documentary follows the growth of a lamb, '89,' abandoned by its mother.

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:23 - Monemvasia

    Duration: 11 Minutes

  • Ernest Cole Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 21:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 106 Minutes

  • Karibu: Giorgos Stamoulis

    Long-distance runner Giorgos Stamoulis greets us with “Karibu”—meaning “Welcome” in Swahili, the language of Kenya! The documentary "KARIBU: Giorgos Stamoulis" follows him to Iten, Kenya, where he trains alongside some of the world’s top athletes. The film invites us into the dream of an athlete striving for distinction, while also unveiling Kenyan culture and th...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:00 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 18:30 - Tripolis
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:30 - Xylokastro
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:30 - Sparta

    Duration: 63 Minutes

  • Small Dogs Bark Loud

    The loyal, talking dog, Salto helps Tuni (12) cope with challenges and tough times. With her bucket list as a guide, she finds moments of joy and adventure despite sorrow, proving that even in the&nbs...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 21:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:00 - Akrata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:00 - Filiatra
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:00 - Amaliada

    Duration: 70 Minutes

  • Poliboy

    Poliboy

    Director: Daehyun Kim

    In the spring of 1987, a 14 year old runaway boy ended up in Korea University and made its campus his home. He grew up on campus under the care of the student activists. They called him, ‘Poliboy,’

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 92 Minutes

  • Innocence

    Innocence

    Director: Guy Davidi Country: Israel

    INNOCENCE tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the haunting diaries of soldiers who died in uniform and rare home video they left behind; the film depicts their inner turmoil. Interweaved together with first-hand training ...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 21:00 - Gythion

    Duration: 100 Minutes

  • Anaklisis

    Anaklisis

    Director: Yannis Pothos Country: Greece

    "Anaklisis" is the soul's journey of Giorgos, a Greek man from Distomo who survived the Nazi atrocities, emigrated to America, and was later sent as a soldier to Germany during the Cold War. There, he confronts denial, forgiveness, and ultimately the universal yearning for peace, which transforms his soul.

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 21 Minutes

  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place

    A small class of Afghan children in a refugee school in Athens, Greece will take a stand as the Taliban rise in power in their country. Are their voices loud enough to draw the world’s attention or will their families and friends face the dangers of this brutal regime? 

     

    In a mak...

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 17:17 - Amaliada

    Duration: 18 Minutes

  • Ever Since I Knew Myself

    Within the changing landscape of post-Soviet society, the author embarks on a deeply personal journey. In intimate dialogue with her structure-loving mother and math teacher, she explores the relationship between two women of different generations, each with entirely different experiences, clashing perspectives, yet sharing a profound love for each other. This co...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 17:00 - Akrata

    Duration: 88 Minutes

  • Mission 200

    This is a film about a Ukrainian woman, who during Russia's full-scale attack put her travel business on hold and began transporting killed military men. Like the mythological Charon, who transfers souls to the other side of the river Styx, she transports the bodies of the dead soldiers. Overcoming thousands of kilometers without any stops and sleep, she transpor...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 62 Minutes

  • Arctic Odyssey

    An epic cinematic journey filled with breathtaking landscapes and unforgettable moments. Andreas and Alexandros embark on a bikepacking adventure in Norway, overcoming physical and mental challenges, conquering obstacles, and discovering the best version of themselves. Their journey allows viewers to live each moment as if they were there.

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 20:30 - Sparta
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:00 - Dimitsana
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:00 - Moni Poretsou

    Duration: 75 Minutes

  • Not My Film

    What happens if older people challenge stereotypes in films about aging? Six seniors re-perform scenes of poor health, sexual invisibility, and gendered stereotypes of the wise old man and the bad witch. Toward the end of the film, the participants rebel against these cinematic images, proving that older age can be associated with love, sexuality, and self-revela...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 20:00 - Filiatra

    Duration: 30 Minutes

  • Johatsu - Into Thin Air

    Every year, thousands of people vanish without a trace in Japan. Known as the Johatsu, or “the evaporated,” they abandon their lives for various reasons, a troublesome relationship, mounting debts or threats from the mafia. Some get support from so-called “night moving” companies, which help people to disappear and start a new life somewhere else. Taking an ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 19:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 21:00 - Gythion
    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 20:00 - Patras
    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 19:00 - Sparta

    Duration: 86 Minutes

  • Abundance

    Abundance

    Director: Dora Jung Country: Serbia

    The film documents a unique development and making of one of the most important festivals of artistic dance in the world, the Belgrade Dance Festival. Thanks to this festival, Belgrade has become an important stopover in biographies of the artists who create trends in the area of artistic dance and theatre, a place where new productions are discovered and where y...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 62 Minutes

  • There Is A War Going On Outside

    In the heart of Athens, Paris, and London, three young lives—Nikos Sabanis, Ibrahima Bah, and Chris Kaba—are cut short by police violence, exposing the deeply entrenched racism within Europe's policing systems. Through their stories, this documentary reveals disturbing patterns of racial profiling and systemic injustice, while following the relentless fight for j...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 54 Minutes

  • Women Fighters - 2nd Part 1944-1960

    Amidst civil war and political repression, one women's organization dares to resist. While leftist groups are outlawed, PEOPEF becomes the voice and shield of mothers, wives, and sisters fighting to save their loved...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 80 Minutes

  • Ghamar Taj

    Ghamar Taj is a matriarch and powerful woman from the Qashqai Nomads of south-central Iran. Her husband is sick and she is doing her best to cure him. 

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 18:00 - Patras

    Duration: 71 Minutes

  • Delta

    At the delta of the Pinios River, in the shadow of Mount Olympus in central Greece, a small community of coastal fishermen work tirelessly to sustain their way of life. The film is driven by resilient and humorous characters whose stories unfold over the seasons, set against the ever-present backdrop of water.

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 21:00 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 18:30 - Dimitsana

    Duration: 76 Minutes

  • We Will Not Fade Away

    Five Ukrainian teenagers grow up in small towns in a coal mining district. Like the teens the world over, they do the 400 blows, they fight against the boredom and the multiple frustrations of finding out who you are, and how to live. But these teens are in Donbas, where the war has been going on for years. Not only the region is ravaged by economic decline, but ...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 19:00 - Gythion

    Duration: 100 Minutes

  • Artisants

    Stories of creation and destruction. Three artists, two sculptors and the stonemason, exhibit their art illegally in urban spaces.

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 19:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 77 Minutes

  • Negotiating The Future

    The documentary "Negotiating the Future" explores the Punan people's struggle to adapt to drastic changes that threaten their profound connection with the forest, which is essential to their very existence and ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 19:30 - Patras

    Duration: 25 Minutes

  • A Couple Of Years

    In 1960, a treaty was signed between Greece and Germany that led almost 600.000 Greeks to immigrate and live as workers in the factories and mines of Germany. Descendants of this migration stream, Teo, Aglaia and Vasso, allow us a glimpse of their daily lives and reveal the effects of that massive population movement on the present and the future: the "meeting" o...

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 17:30 - Sparta

    Duration: 85 Minutes

  • They Talk About Worship Here

    Poetic, dramatic, funny, MTV kids in Corfu, Kore. Ydro. occupied the Greek indie pop/rock scene like few bands, receiving both adoration and derision. The documentary follows their journey, focusing on the two main members, but also on the importance of being special without feeling shameful. 

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 21:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 88 Minutes

  • Where The Trees Bear Meat

    Where the trees bear meat It is a raw and evocative film set in the heart of Argentina, where a hardworking cattle rancher, Omar, finds himself immersed in a relentless struggle against the ruthless forces of nature. A prolonged drought—worsened by the growing effects of climate change—threatens to extinguish the gaucho way of life, leaving the land parched and t...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:00 - Leonidio
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 11:45 - Stymfalia

    Duration: 72 Minutes

  • Off The Mark

    OFF THE MARK” is a feature length documentary about the climate change, the nature crisis and the violation of human rights in the Norwegian Finnmark. The documentary shows the action of activists against plastic and follows the fight of the Indigenous Sámi people for their land and culture that are threatened by the “Green Shift”. 

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 13:00 - Stymfalia

    Duration: 114 Minutes

  • Free Words: A Poet From Gaza

    "Free words: A poet from Gaza" is a documentary film about Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha and his life in Gaza. The film chronicles his journey, his art as a form of resistance and hope, and his experiences with oppression, including his temporary detention and subsequent release to leave Gaza.

     

     

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:00 - Gythion
    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 21:30 - Patras
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:00 - Nafplion
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 19:00 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 22:00 - Tripolis
    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 19:30 - Akrata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:30 - Filiatra
    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 13:30 - Amaliada

    Duration: 24 Minutes

  • A Free Man

    22-year-old Kei refuses to conform to the Japanese achievement-oriented society. He is homeless by choice, living on the streets and under the bridges of Kyoto. His love for nature and music keeps him aflo...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 19:30 - Nafplion

    Duration: 75 Minutes

  • Free Leonard Peltier

    Acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit one of the most discredited convictions in modern America to chronicle the five-decade campaign to exonerate the most famous living Native American activ...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 110 Minutes

  • Hellenic Places: Kassos

    Kassos — a small island with a heroic past — comes alive through bravery, the sea, and culture, revealing the legacy that shapes the identity of a unique island community. 

     

    The series...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:00 - Filiatra

    Duration: 13 Minutes

  • Rebel With A Bow Tie

    A documentary filmmaker who spent five years making a film about the hippies of the New World district in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, suddenly finds himself working at the President's Office. As time passes, he finds it ever harder to tame the documentarian in him —a strange inner compulsion demands: you have to make a film about the president's life! Missio...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:00 - Xylokastro

    Duration: 95 Minutes

  • On Lavender

    ON LAVENDER is an exploration of the multiplicities of gender identity in contemporary Greek society. The film delves into the lives of its protagonists, weaving together their experiences, memories and histories through semi-structured interviews, creative shots and animation. The viewer is invited into a world where multiple perspectives on gender and performat...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 20:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 74 Minutes

  • Survivors

    As students, Eduardo and Ernesto survived attacks by security forces in 2014 that led to the disappearance of 43 fellow students. To this day, they have not let go of that day and their lives have changed dramatically.

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 18 Minutes

  • Return To Homeland

    Titus Milech is a psychiatrist who lived and worked in Marseille. He grew up in Germany but he doesn’t identify as German due to the horrific Nazi heritage. After many years of rejection and denial of his origin, he begins a journey back to his hometown of Tübingen, Germany. He returns to the places where he grew up, meets relatives and friends but soon enough he...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 128 Minutes

  • Return Of The Creeps

    Athens 1982. Somewhere between Kypseli, Patisia and Exarchia districts, Creep Records was born. In its four year run, Creep Records featured some of the most important bands of the Greek New Wave, Post Punk and Dark Wave scene on its roster. Creep released a series of iconic records that are, to this day, music works of inestimable sentimental value. A documentar...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 21:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 99 Minutes

  • Photons In Love

    The parallel stories of two children spending summer holidays in Greece highlight the impact of climate and/or human change on water resources. 

    2 children going on holiday in their villages. 2 lakes in their villages ...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:37 - Filiatra
    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 12:55 - Amaliada

    Duration: 15 Minutes

  • The Strawberry Land

    In a small village, such as Nea Manolada, every year a numerous community of migrant land workers, maintaining its own culture, develops within the established local society. The same place is called to house different cultures and different social realities. The stake is high….


    Duration: 25 Minutes

  • The Life And Work Of Yanoulis Halepas

    Onassis Education presents an animated mini-biopic featuring the novel-like life and extraordinary work of the Greek sculptor Yanoulis Halepas. Born on the island of Tinos in the mid-19th century, he met with massive acclaim at a young age, spent years in a psychiatric hospital, and was artistically reborn in the twilight of his life, a little before the outbreak...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:13 - Filiatra

    Duration: 7 Minutes

  • The Day Iceland Stood Still

    When 90% of the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to the best place in the world to be a woman.” Told for the first time by the women themselves, and laced with playful animation, The Day Iceland...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:00 - Filiatra
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 19:30 - Amaliada
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 19:15 - Dimitsana

    Duration: 71 Minutes

  • Wind's Heritage

    Mohammad Wali Gandami is the last miller who knows the techniques of building and repairing of traditional iranian windmills. At the age of 68, he is still responsible for the maintenance of windmills in the city of Nashtifan.

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:00 - Akrata

    Duration: 30 Minutes

  • Mother Of Snow Cranes

    Over 90 years old, Ellen Vuosalo has lived many lives. First as a Finnish immigrant in Canada, then as an American citizen and student of zoology at UCLA and finally as a Mother of Cranes in Iran...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 20:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 19:30 - Leonidio

    Duration: 78 Minutes

  • The City Without You

    A poetic journey through modern Santiago, where love writing becomes a tool of memory, place, and resistance through archival images and street voices. 

    La ciudad sin ti is an essay film&n...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 19 Minutes

  • The Art Of Remembering

    An artistic journey through memory, trauma, healing and reconciliation. Visual artist Artemis Alcalay presents her artwork, she narrates untold family stories, collective trauma and the memory of the Holocaust. A meeting of Histor...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 19:45 - Kalamata

    Duration: 81 Minutes

  • Frescoes Of The Flooded Monastery ...or How Lisa Saved

    The director of the Museum of Architecture Liza Likhacheva, is saving unique frescoes of the Apocalypse. Relics from the flooded monastery have been kept in museum storerooms for more than 80 years. They are eaten by mold. Elizabeth wants to collect the frescoes and show them to the world. During this time, her life changes dramatically.

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 76 Minutes

  • Thelisis

    What are human limits and who ultimately defines them? Panagos, a man with spastic quadriplegia, and Konstantinos his trainer, are two friends who ask and challenge this question daily. One suggests and the other follows. It is unimportant who is at the beginning of the journey, but from the start, they are together until the end. Their journey? The mountain of the gods, Mount Olympus. Their...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 45 Minutes

  • I Want To Be A Winner

    Over four years, three unaccompanied refugee teens find hope, strength, and solidarity in a Greek shelter, in a coming-of-age journey that transcends borders and labels. 

    This documentary follows the lives&nb...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:30 - Monemvasia

    Duration: 73 Minutes

  • The Story of an Illegal Excavation

    Giorgos Fygetakis narrates the story of illegal excavations in Agios Georgios, Siteia, in the late 1960s. 

     

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 17:00 - Leonidio

    Duration: 24 Minutes

  • Traces Of Responsibility

    An interactive cinematic journey through post-genocide Rwanda, where viewers shape the path of a war criminal’s reckoning and a nation's road to reconciliation. 

     

    "Traces of Responsibility" is an interactive ...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 60 Minutes

  • Albgreko

    Albgreko

    Director: Ilir Tsouko Country: Greece

    Through the voices of the new generation of immigrants, the coexistence of two cultures becomes a bridge of hope and perspective for tomorrow.

    Children and grandchildren of Albanian immigra...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 17:00 - Akrata

    Duration: 27 Minutes

  • Calais Dover The Endless Exile

    Every year, thousands of people risk their lives to reach England illegally aboard inflatable boats and other makeshift vessels from Calais. A perilous crossing, orchestrated by smugglers, on the dangerous waters of the English Channel. Women, men, children from Syria, Iran or Sudan all pursue the same dream: a better life. For seven years, director Julien Goudic...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 51 Minutes

  • Under the Flags, The Sun

    In 1989, the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay marked the end of one of the world’s longest authoritarian regimes, but also the abandonment of the audiovisual archives that had cemented its power. This footage, crafted to shape a national identity and celebrate the regime, was left to fade from memory. Decades later, a trove of unseen ...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 12:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 90 Minutes

  • Concerto For Other Hands

    David dreams of being a pianist like his father, José Luis, who believes it impossible due to his son's physical characteristics: short arms, hands with four fingers and limited hearing. Thanks to his tenacity, David shows him that he can play in his own way and together they begin a musical path that culminates in a new challenge for David: premiering the diffic...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 20:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 21:00 - Tripolis
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 19:30 - Xylokastro

    Duration: 79 Minutes

  • Holding Liat

    On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli-American Liat Atzili and her husband Aviv were at home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz. By nightfall, Liat and Aviv are captives in Gaza along with 250 other&nb...


    Duration: 97 Minutes

  • Chasing Dragons

    3 Mountains. 120km. 8000m climb. 1 day. A new route connecting the infamous dragon lakes test Akis' body and his mind, as he battles his inner demons. Set to the backdrop of Epirus' incredible landscape, this&n...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 18:00 - Patras
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:30 - Stymfalia

    Duration: 63 Minutes

  • Constantinos

    A 95-year-old Greek man, reflecting on his life, legacy, and profound love for his late wife, shares his memories through a blend of interviews, archival footage, and hand-drawn animation. 

    Constantinos is a short documentary of a 95-year-old Greek man, Dino. Reflecting on the milestones of his life, we learn of his Greek homeland, his architectural ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 16:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 15 Minutes

  • White Mountains

    The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 86 Minutes

  • Leontari

    An architect breathes new life into a forgotten railway station in the Peloponnese, vowing to bring trains back to Leontari — and with them, the promise of a new beginning. 

    The railroad network of the Greek Peloponnese has lon...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 14 Minutes

  • Mediha

    Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns her camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members. This is the story of the Yazidi Genocide and its aftermath, shown through the lens of one young survivor as she confronts her past through personal video-diaries, reclaiming her voice ...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:30 - Gythion

    Duration: 87 Minutes

  • Days of Rain

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    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 21:00 - Xylokastro

    Duration: 72 Minutes

  • Never Look Away

    Never Look Away (2024), directed by Lucy Lawless, is a documentary about Margaret Moth, a fearless New Zealand-born CNN war correspondent. The film follows her career covering conflict zones from Sarajevo to Rwanda, capturing the brutal realities of war. Despite suffering severe injuries, including a gunshot wound to her face from a sniper in Sarajevo, Moth’s ded...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 85 Minutes

  • Little Syria

    The coming-of-age of a brother, his sister and her boyfriend, trapped between the Syria from which they ran for their lives, and their exile in Europe. Filmed for over 20 years in Syria and Germany, as well as in Spain, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Hungary, France, "Little Syria" is a story of unlikely quests, a search for the disappeared through rubble and tortured b...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 22:00 - Patras

    Duration: 90 Minutes

  • Beware Of The Southern Stars

    Master Kostas, continuing the naval tradition of his homeland and family as a ship engineer, spent years sailing across the vast oceans. Now, forced into retirement on land, with the marks of time weighing heavily upon him, he lives amidst his memories and the singing of his canaries. With eyes still filled with the salt of the sea, he waits for the ocean to call...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:30 - Monemvasia

    Duration: 26 Minutes

  • Feel

    A blind foal is born in a stable in the Tver region. Usually such foals are put to sleep. Tatyana Akimova, a professional rider in the past and a horse owner, is faced with a difficult choice. Keeping this foal alive means taking full responsibility for the big baby, or even risking her life. Where will this love bring her to?

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 17:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 69 Minutes

  • Democracy Noir

    Amidst the brazen rise of 21st century authoritarianism, few politicians have proven as corrupt and adept at undermining democracy as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. A hero to his country’s Christian conservative population and a&nb...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 15:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 21:00 - Filiatra

    Duration: 90 Minutes

  • Daniel

    Daniel

    Director: Pavlos Vissariou Country: Greece

    The meteorological event known as ''Daniel'' was an extreme weather phenomenon characterized by heavy rainfall, traced back to the 4th of September 2023, originating from the Ionian Sea, with the wider area of Thessaly as its epicenter. The tempest wrought catastrophic consequences, claiming 17 lives and decimating 850,000 hectares of cultivable terrain, while ov...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 20:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 16 Minutes

  • Don Benjamin

    Don Benjamin

    Director: Ivan Zahinos Country: Spain

    For him, the jungle has always been God, life, food, health, beauty and tradition. Now, the world in which he built a home for his family turns to smoke and ashes. “Don Benjamín” is a journey both raw and poetic through a magical region in danger, the Bolivian Amazon.

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 15:20 - Kalamata

    Duration: 29 Minutes

  • Wind Has No Tail

    Nika is one of the youngest daughters in the Yamal nomad’s family. The administration of the nearest village should take her to a boarding school very soon, separating her from family and home for a long time. A nomadic teacher must prepare Nika for departure.

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 22:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 20:00 - Monemvasia

    Duration: 60 Minutes

  • Rhino Man

    RHINO MAN is the true story of the courageous field rangers who risk their lives every day to protect South Africa's rhinos from being poached to extinction. 

    We follow Anton Mzimba, the head ranger of the Timbavati, as he protects the rhinos. He faces long deployments, dangerous working conditions, and constant threats to his life. Nearby, a legendary trainer, Ruben de Kock, st...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 21:00 - Leonidio
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 21:00 - Nafplion
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 17:00 - Amaliada
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 20:00 - Sparta

    Duration: 98 Minutes

  • My Buddha is Punk

    Kyaw Kyaw, a 25-year-old Burmese punk, pursues the dream of seeing the punk scene take off in the former military dictatorship Myanmar. Along with the members of his punk band, he tries to raise awareness about...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 18:00 - Nafplion

    Duration: 68 Minutes

  • The Strong Man Of Bureng

    Former UN soldier Essa has fled the Gambia for Finland, where he has successfully set up a business that provides for his family. Back in his hometown Bureng, he is celebrated as a hero. During a visit home, world events catch up with him: The coronavirus outbreak jeopardises Essa’s return to Europe and his application to renew his residence permit, plunging him ...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 18:15 - Kalamata

    Duration: 76 Minutes

  • The Guest

    In a militarized Polish village, a young man and his mother face a moral dilemma when they offer shelter to an exhausted Syrian refugee, defying the authorities and the harsh border crisis. 

    Maciek lives in the Polish village close to Belarus. It is winter 2021 and the crisis at the border is intensifying. The whole area becomes a military zone. The ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 20:00 - Patras

    Duration: 78 Minutes

  • Klidonas In Margarites

    Through fire, flowers, and spells, a Cretan village rekindles the Klidonas ritual — a midsummer tradition that bridges ancient faith and modern life, asking: is there still room for wonder? 

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:20 - Filiatra
    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 18:00 - Dimitsana

    Duration: 17 Minutes

  • The Beacon Of Memory

    100 years after the Greek-Turkish population exchange, two women remember their grandmothers, who had been suffered from the pain of being refugees. Did they ever love Greece or the beacon of memory was deeply unextinguished for their lost homeland?

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 16:47 - Kalamata

    Duration: 8 Minutes

  • The Outlaws

    The Wolves return in Attica after 60 years of absence and wildlife management problems are coming to the surface. Conflicts with humans are inevitable and this event causes big reactions. Especially, when the most demonized animal of all time, has settled in the abused mountain of Parnitha.

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 18:00 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:30 - Dimitsana

    Duration: 22 Minutes

  • The Shadow Scholars

    Patricia Kingori is the youngest woman and Black professor in Oxford’s 925-year history. Captivated by the hidden, multi-billion dollar ‘fake essay’ industry, Patricia enters the world of the ‘shadow scholars’ - an estimated 40,000 highly-educated, underemployed Kenyans making ends meet by writing academic papers for global students. Scholars like ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 21:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 98 Minutes

  • Children Of The Cult

    Children of the Cult is an international investigation into the Rajneesh movement. One of the world’s biggest and most successful cults, it had communes in more than 50 countries in the 70s and 80s and was immortalised in the Netflix series ‘Wild Wild Country’. But until now, a central truth about the organisation has remained hidden. Filmmaker Maroesja Perizoniu...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:00 - Xylokastro

    Duration: 76 Minutes

  • The Strafdivision

    In Nazi-occupied Greece, a hidden story unfolds: German and Austrian political prisoners, forced into Penal Battalion 999, defy fascism by deserting and joining the Greek Resistance. A powerful documentary revealing resistance&nbs...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 19:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 18:00 - Argos
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 20:00 - Tripolis
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 21:00 - Amaliada

    Duration: 91 Minutes

  • Behind The Shadows

    Greek shadow puppetry travels to its ancient origins in China, weaving a cultural bridge through the stories and traditions of master puppeteers from two worlds. 

    The Greek shadow puppetry ...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 16:15 - Kalamata

    Duration: 13 Minutes

  • Footballer

    It is about two brothers, Abolfazl and Ali who live in a small village in chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in Iran. They exercise football very hard and they have a dream to be the football stars.

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:30 - Akrata

    Duration: 30 Minutes

  • Marching in the Dark

    Sanjivani, a young widow in rural India, grapples with devastating loss after her husband, a farmer who succumbed to the pressures of rising costs, unyielding crop failures, and volatile market prices, commits suicide – one of thousands each year in India’s agriculture sectors. 

    Now absorbed into her brother-in-law’s fami...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 20:00 - Akrata

    Duration: 108 Minutes

  • Sheep

    Sheep

    Director: Ruud de Keyser Country: Belgium

    For many years, Belgium was the last speck of European mainland without a large predator in its scattered nature reserves. Until an adventurous pack of wolves finally put an end to that. And a beginning to this film. In the lush fields of northern Belgium, as winter tightens its grip, the sheep of Eddy, Jeroen, and Johny become silent witnesse...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 17:00 - Moni Poretsou

    Duration: 48 Minutes

  • Rap Like Grandma: Suni & 7 Princesses

    "Rap Like Grandma: Suni & 7 Princesses" follows a group of elderly South Korean women who combat loneliness through rap music, transforming a simple literacy class into a powerful expression of community, c...

    Screened: Friday, 21 November 2025 17:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 30 Minutes

  • Soundtrack to a coup d'etat

    In 1960, the Jazz Hour radio show broadcasts Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie behind the Iron Curtain, while decolonization movements are surging across Africa and the civil rights struggle continues in the United States. In Congo,&...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 21:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 150 Minutes

  • Skammata

    Skammata

    Director: Danae Stylianou Country: Cyprus

    Synopsis: Fifty years after the coup d’etat and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, foreign and Cypriot archaeologists along with retired staff members of the Department of Antiquities, evoke their personal memories, as they refl...

    Screened: Thursday, 27 November 2025 12:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:00 - Leonidio
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 19:30 - Tripolis
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:00 - Amaliada

    Duration: 87 Minutes

  • Dig Deeper

    By Digging Deeper into the lives of four unique and diverse Indigenous artists we discover that they have common motivating themes, their art, their Aboriginality and their dual heritage. How do you talk about the things that have happened to you and from your history? Are you angry? Can you stir passion and emotion? Can you engage in a deeper, more fundamental w...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 17:00 - Monemvasia

    Duration: 52 Minutes

  • Emery, Marble And Vine

    On the island of Naxos, a winemaker, a beekeeper, a musician, and a local who is reviving a historic neighborhood offer a quiet resistance to overtourism through their work and way of life.


    Duration: 21 Minutes

  • Breaking Language

    Through sign language, dance, and documentary, four Deaf artists redefine identity, language, and feminism as acts of resistance and creation. 

    Merging Argentinian Sign Language, dance, and documentary, Break...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 17 Minutes

  • Stand By Me

    This film depicts the struggles of an American couple suffering from a medical condition and the way they deal with it, which has become internationally popular, attracting tourists from around the globe. The American couple's dream travel to Amsterdam becomes a test of their love and a journey of universal bittersweet favors. 'Stand by Me' empathizes with its Am...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:00 - Nafplion

    Duration: 10 Minutes

  • In Limbo

    First days of the War Alina, one of the film’s protagonists, disabled after leg surgery, spends alone with the cat, in her home in a small city near Kyiv. She looks for the ways to escape. The bridges are destroyed. Alina manages to find the only road useful and get away with the cat to her parents, caught by the War in their cottage in the nearby village. For th...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 19:30 - Nafplion
    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 21:00 - Filiatra

    Duration: 71 Minutes

  • The Other Side Of The Pipe

    The Southern Gas Corridor, spanning 3500 kilometers from Azerbaijan to southern Italy, represents Europe's largest energy endeavor. Greek farmer Themis, retired teacher Ippazio, and young activist Giacomo feel the pipeline impacts their lives and lands. Together, they unite in a global fight against the project, undeterred by potential consequences, driven by a p...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 19:00 - Patras

    Duration: 52 Minutes

  • At The Door Of The House Who Will Come Knocking

    Set in the harsh yet beautiful landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the film reveals inner, intangible realms through the patient observation of the natural world. It follows an elderly man living in isolation, weav...

    Screened: Wednesday, 26 November 2025 22:15 - Patras

    Duration: 84 Minutes

  • Steps

    Steps

    Director: Iro Siafliaki Country: France

    November 2018 saw the emergence of the Yellow Vests movement. Steps follows its most ephemeral expression, these Saturday marches, as a possible entry into a new political experimentation. A subjective state of affairs, very different from the narratives broadcast about the Yellow Vests by the media, the film scrutinizes the resurrection of solidarity between the...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 12:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 85 Minutes

  • Winter Girls

    The story of Yazidi women in a wake of a heavy war, after a terrible trauma, they are ready to return to their imperfect life, but their children from ISIS terrorists have become their most controversial obstacle to join their families.

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 18:00 - Amaliada

    Duration: 70 Minutes

  • The Goals Of August

    Every summer in the mountains of southern Pindos an impromptu football tournament is organised. Armatoliko, a small village and its episodic course in the tournament reveal the fascinating aliveness of a small community, which may be almost empty most of the year, but its spirit remains alive.

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 16:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 116 Minutes

  • What Did You Do To Him?

    A woman finds herself in a shelter for abused women. She never imagined it would happen to her. Daily life in the shelter and the stories of the people who make up this community become a step toward liberation from the chains of violence.

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:09 - Nafplion
    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 17:00 - Amaliada

    Duration: 18 Minutes

  • Night Recedes

    A love story and artistic journey through war-torn Athens, post-war Paris, and Cold War Budapest, exploring the intertwined fates of art, history, and memory behind the Iron Curtain. 

    Night recedes retraces t...

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 17:00 - Kalamata
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 21:00 - Monemvasia
    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:45 - Sparta

    Duration: 70 Minutes

  • The Diary Of An Exile

    A portrait of a revolutionary musician who took a stand against the things he lived through his melodies.

    A portrait of a revolutionary musician who took a stand against the things he lived through his melodies.The Diary of an Exile develops around the memories and daily life of revolutionary musician Fuat Saka, who had to leave Turkey just before the Tur...

    Screened: Sunday, 23 November 2025 13:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 21:00 - Leonidio

    Duration: 73 Minutes

  • The Insides Of Our Lives

    The Insides of Our Lives is a poetic blend that combines fiction with found footage. A selection from thousands of hours of found footage - mostly 8mm material - tells the coming-of-age story of two girls growing up along a border in Europe, as the border gradually drives them apart. The story sensitively portrays what it means to grow up in a world where one day...

    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 18:30 - Kalamata

    Duration: 50 Minutes

  • La Nostra Isola

    The last inhabitants of Ginostra, a group of about twenty elderly people cut off from the world in this small village clinging to the slopes of the Stromboli volcano, live in tune with a nature that is as bountiful as it is destructive. Their entire lives have been shaped by a personified relationship with this nature and the volcano. 

     

    Screened: Sunday, 30 November 2025 18:00 - Akrata

    Duration: 45 Minutes

  • The Prototype

    Communitism breathed life into an abandoned neoclassical building in Athens by fostering collectives and initiatives of the city in need of space, to create and synergize. Through workshops, events, and creative collaboration, this grassroots experiment became reference point facilitating a network of communities and challenging the local preconceptions and exist...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:00 - Leonidio

    Duration: 55 Minutes

  • THE SAMI SONG OF SURVIVAL: Indigenous Activism..

    The documentary tells the story of the  Indigenous  Sami  people of Northern Europe—who live in a territory spanning parts of today’s Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia—and how they have used artistic resistance and organized&nbs...

    Screened: Saturday, 22 November 2025 19:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 50 Minutes

  • Turin Turin

    Two years after Valentino’s passing, his family, especially his son, still feels his profound presence. His home remains a treasure trove of memories—books, postcards, diaries, and his old bike. As his family delves into these left belongings, they rediscover the greatest adventure of Valentino’s life: In the 1950s, Valentino and his best friend Adriano became th...

    Screened: Monday, 24 November 2025 20:30 - Kalamata
    Screened: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 11:00 - Tripolis

    Duration: 46 Minutes

  • The Lost Season

    Seasonal dust has covered the village where Kosar lives. Hamoon lake has dried up and Sistan region is getting drier every year, it seems life is disappearing from there. Kosar is a teenage girl studying in high school. She lives in a small village in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan near Afgan border, and like all teenage girls in that region she has to ge...

    Screened: Friday, 28 November 2025 18:00 - Xylokastro

    Duration: 64 Minutes

  • '48 | Resisting The Big Settlement

    A political documentary filmed in the summer of 2022 in the occupied Palestine. It is an attempt to express the daily experience of people excluded by the apartheid regime, describing different aspects of the Israeli occupation. We have recorded stories from 4 regions of West Bank, culminating in a collective narrative of the Palestinian resistance as an everyday...

    Screened: Saturday, 29 November 2025 20:00 - Kalamata

    Duration: 77 Minutes

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