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Kalamata Program

Friday, 22 November 2024 - Sunday, 01 December 2024
Amphitheater "Theodoros Angelopoulos"

The 10th Peloponnisos Documentary Festival in Kalamata, running for ten days, offers a rich program of films by renowned creators that explore fascinating and important aspects of human life. The films cover a wide variety of topics, such as history, cultural heritage, war and its consequences, refugee issues, migration, abuse, the need for justice, mental health, and the challenges of modern everyday life. Additionally, stories from different cultures and traditions will be presented, with special emphasis on memory, societal evolution, and the relationship between humans and nature. Apart from screenings, the festival includes discussions with filmmakers, providing an opportunity for dialogue and idea exchange. It is a unique gathering for those who love documentaries and cinema as a means of expression and social awareness.

Kalamata Program
  • OPENING OF COMICS EXHIBITION "Sketchtowns"

    Edited by: Yannis Antonopoulos. 

    The 10th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival presents the comics exhibition 'Sketchtowns'. Greek comic artists depict the cities that inspire them, creating a unique audiovisual experience on the occasion of the festival's 10th anniversary.

    The exhibition will be hosted at the Kalamata Cultural Center (33 Aristomenous Street) from Monday, November 18th to Thursday, December 5th.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_FINISHED: Thursday, 21 November 2024 15:00

  • Maybe Tomorrow

    Belki Sibe is a volunteer soldier's film. It unfolds an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan NE Syria, during the advance and victory of the Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS, including the story of the International Freedom Battalion, where the director was primarily deployed. It depicts the military life and battles on the front-lines, as well as the civil l...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 17:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 98 MINUTES

  • One Big Family

    Since 1926 family and friendship, playgrounds and neighborhood, innovation and solidarity, have been the “secret blend” of the luminous course of the Kliafa soft drinks Company. A small universe of creativity and humanity, built in Trikala, Greece, around one man’s vision “…to cool and sweeten the world!”

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 19:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 69 MINUTES

  • COM_DOCUMENTARIES_FINISHED: Friday, 22 November 2024 21:00

  • Beyond my Eyes

    An observational documentary about the lives and experiences of 4 visually impaired people in Kalamata. Through their eyes we see their lives, their every day life and their difficulties in a city full of obstacles but above all we see their smile and their love for life.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 21:00
    Duration: 18 MINUTES

  • Berlin, Symphony of Metropolis

    The distinguished composer, pianist, and musicologist Minas Alexiadis will compose and perform a live original score tailored specifically for the film.

    This documentary paints a vivid portrait of contemporary life in the bustling metropolis of Berlin. The city was undergoing rapid industrialization, marked by urbanization, overcrowding, and the stark realities faced by the working c...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 21:30
    Duration: 65 MINUTES

  • PHOTO EXHIBITION "The Square we live in"

    DOC CAFE KOUTSOMITOPOULO 6

    The photo exhibition "The Square we live in" explores Exarchia Square through the eyes of different photographers, posing questions about the identity and evolution of a public space in constant transformation.

    With us, the photojournalist Marios Lolos will talk to us about the profession of a photojournalist. The importance and essential contribution of photography in difficult circumstances. How a photojournalist works on dangerous missions.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_FINISHED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 11:00

  • L´Ilot - Like an Island

    In the heat of the summer, two watchmen secure the river that runs through a neighbourhood in Lausanne. Ammar is new to the job, and Daniel shares his experience with him. During their rounds and encounters with the inhabitants, they observe and are observed, while bonds are being formed. And the question arises: what could have happened by the river?

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 16:00
    Duration: 106 MINUTES

  • Lenaki, The Curse of Fire

    The forgotten case of the arson of an ancestral tower in Peloponnese, Greece, comes to light with the discovery of a manuscript. The interreligious romance between Eleni and Elmaz-aga, close to the 1821 uprising against the Ottomans, and a parental curse, haunt the history of the family and of the village alike. The folk song of Eleni drives to the awakening of a past that resembles a fairyt...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 17:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 72 MINUTES

  • In Search of an Audience

    Lambros Fisfis, one of Greece’s most prominent stand-up comedians, was getting ready to face the greatest challenge of his career. He was planning to give a special in a stadium of 5000 people. Stand-up comedy is fairly new in Greece and no Greek comedian has ever achieved or even tried to go live alone in front of such an audience. And then hit the pandemic...

    After seeing all his p...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 18:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 73 MINUTES

  • Dourgouti Town

    A Real Estates Agent who is interest in investing wanders around the area of Neos Kosmos in Athens, formerly known as Dourgouti. Through his eyes unfolds the past, present and uncertain future of this once degraded district. A district resembling a deserted island, right next to Acropolis that follows the fate of similar neighborhoods around the globe. A district that silently records the hi...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 20:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 88 MINUTES

  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood. Anna Hints' Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition, recognized on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 21:30
    Duration: 89 MINUTES

  • Children of the mist

    In the misty mountains of North Vietnam, a Hmong girl walks the thin line between childhood and becoming an adult. Over a period of three years, girls in her minority are forced to lose their innocence, discover the traps of seduction, and fight for their independence. ​​For her debut feature, a young Vietnamese filmmaker spent three years in the community, documenting with a sensitive appro...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 12:00
    Duration: 92 MINUTES

  • Forest

    Forest

    Director: Lidia Duda Country: Poland

    Young, brimming with hope, and striving to build a better life for their children and themselves, Asia and Marek, have relocated to the edge of one of Europe's oldest forests, along Poland’s eastern border. For their three children, the forest is not only a vast playground but also something akin to a second home. However, as the refugee crisis casts its long shadow on the whole of Europe an...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 13:30
    Duration: 85 MINUTES

  • 01

    01

    Director: Dimitris Mouzakitis Country: Greece

    In the last years of their lives, the poet Nanos Valaoritis and the painter Marie Wilson lived together in an apartment in downtown Athens. Nanos Valaoritis, searches, discovers, retrieves, displays photographs, old drawings, publications. He is reflected in the cinematographic lens, weaving personal memory into space and time. A personal microcosm, containing multifaceted manifestations of ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 15:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 100 MINUTES

  • Lagunaria

    A voice from a distant future tells of a vanished city that was once among the most famous in the world. Did it ever exist? Is it still inhabited, or has it turned into a tourist park? Did it survive floods and plagues? Have its inhabitants managed to find a new way of living together? Amidst legends, rituals and hearsay, we witness a daily life made up of boats and an indefinite tale o...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 17:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 86 MINUTES

  • The Kiosk

    The Kiosk

    Director: Daniel Stopa Country: Poland

    A story of a friendship between Ania and Lidka, her mother-in-law. Ania is strong-minded and determined. Lidka is her opposite, shy and reserved. She has just left her abusive husband. As they meet inside a newsstand kiosk run by Ania. The two women work on a divorce petition that would enable Lidka to begin a new life, free of fear and violence. Despite many harsh words and continuing chall...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 18:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 40 MINUTES

  • Panellinion

    A ghost story of obsession, solitude and madness, in a chess coffeehouse out of place and time, in the center of Athens. The story of “Panellinion”, a refuge for people who suffocate in everyday life, who despise and fail to adapt in the conditions of modern life.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 19:30
    Duration: 81 MINUTES

  • Worship - (my) Greek Cult Movies

    How do we perceive cult, and which are the movies that shaped this term for the Greek standards? What is worship? Is cult subjective? Objective? Or does it become so, through a group of faithful? How does someone acquire faith towards a film and what standards must a movie fulfil to be worshipped?

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 21:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 104 MINUTES

  • Farewell: And Suddenly Memory Began To Remember

    The distinguished Greek psychοtherapist Toula Vlachoutsikou, now bedridden and suffering from dementia, when she begun to lose her memory, she started writing a book with stories about memory. Twenty years later, her daughter, who has taken over her care, is making a film based on these stories, as well as on interviews with people who knew her in person. A film about dementia, care, trauma ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 25 November 2024 17:00
    Duration: 40 MINUTES

  • There goes the neighborhood

    New York City is currently undergoing a period of Hyper-Gentrification. This is a portrait of the communities fighting back.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 25 November 2024 18:00
    Duration: 73 MINUTES

  • Silent Beauty

    When director Jasmín Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abuse at his hands—and the following 24 years of her silence. In this cinematically striking and poetic documentary, López bravely films her story as a willful act to accept difficult truths while finding beauty in the process of healing. As she defie...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 25 November 2024 19:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 88 MINUTES

  • Kristos, The Last Child

    Of the thirty inhabitants of Arki, a windswept island in Greece’s Dodecanese, Kristos is the last remaining child. He is ten, and he is the only pupil of his teacher Maria, who devotes herself to him. Kristos will start his final year of elementary school soon. To finish compulsory education, he needs to leave Arki and move to a larger island. His family, however, cannot afford this expense ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 25 November 2024 21:00
    Duration: 90 MINUTES

  • Little Baluches

    ShirAbad is a neighborhood in the suburb of Zahedan city in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran, where its people hope for a better future despite being deprived. In this movie, we have tried to depict children whose hearts beat for a bright future...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 17:00
    Duration: 62 MINUTES

  • Beyond The River

    Near a Transylvanian village in Central Romania lives a Roma community. A river separates their lives from the rest of the world. Their days are taken up with survival. Beyond the River is a movie set in a small, quiet part of Central Romania, near a village in Transylvania. Here, a community of Roma people live a life that is quite different from others. A river flows nearby, making them fe...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 18:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 60 MINUTES

  • Sami's Odysseys

    Fifty-year-old Sami lives in the Ethiopian capital Addis-Abeba in a small, cluttered room with mould lining the walls. An artistic soul and a man of complex personality, he has spent 19 years translating an anthology of Greek and Roman myths into the Ethiopian national language of Amharic to introduce his fellow Ethiopians to the ancient wisdom. A quixotic life’s work that at long last looks...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 19:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 68 MINUTES

  • Tack

    Tack

    Director: Vania Turner Country: Greece

    When Olympic medalist Sofia Bekatorou reveals her rape by a powerful figure within the Hellenic Sailing Federation, it sparks Greece’s #MeToo movement and turns her into a national symbol for abuse victims. Inspired by Sofia, sailing champion Amalia decides to seek justice for herself since she was systematically abused by her coach between the ages of 11 and 13. As Sofia champions legal ref...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 21:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 95 MINUTES

  • Last Song from Kabul

    Το τελευταίο τραγούδι στην Καμπούλ αφηγείται την καθηλωτική, ηρωική ιστορία νεαρών ορφανών κοριτσιών των οποίων το μουσικό σχολείο έκλεισε μετά την κατάληψη του Αφγανιστάν από τους Ταλιμπάν, καθώς δραπετεύουν στην Πορτογαλία για να προσπαθήσουν να ξαναχτίσουν τις κατακερματισμένες ζωές τους και να αρχίσουν να παίζουν ξανά μουσική.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 17:00
    Duration: 34 MINUTES

  • Seize The Summit

    "Seize the Summit" is the story of four young people's exciting journey to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. Shaqayeq, Adnan, Safa and Tania are no ordinary adventurers, they are all war survivors from different countries. What brought them together to face Kilimanjaro was a deep desire to stand up against war and for the world to hear their messag...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 18:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 75 MINUTES

  • In A Mirror Father Stamatis And Stamatis

    The meeting of two people of the Image, completely different. One, Father Stamatis Skliris, priest, physician, theologian and well-known iconographer-painter who has painted many churches and many painting exhibitions with a very special work for modern iconography. The other is Stamatis Giannoulis, an important cinematographer of many important films in Greek cinema. The film follows the fr...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 19:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 73 MINUTES

  • Stray bodies

    Robin is pregnant, but does not wish to become a mother. Katerina is not able to have a child, even though she wants to. Kiki's sole desire is to end her life with dignity. Unfortunately, abortion, in vitro fertilization and euthanasia are not legal in their respective countries. Stray Bodies explores the notion of body autonomy within Europe, a place where you are allowed to travel, work an...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 21:00
    Duration: 109 MINUTES

  • Kindness

    Kindness

    Director: Nikos Kontizas Country: Greece

    In the context of public preschool education, a certain group chose "kindness" as their central educational theme. The teachers used several tools and exercises to make children think over kindness, including mindfulness exercises. What is kindness? How do we show children what kindness is? What do children teach us about kindness?

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 09:00
    Duration: 14 MINUTES

  • La Malavita (The Underworld)

    The film develops the story of an ex-baby gangster, Sasà Striano, who after so many years in prison and theatrical work, returns to Naples to stage a Macbeth in Neapolitan, and he begins a journey in the Naples of the alleys in search of a original cast of "real people". In this journey, Sasà clashes with a criminal city that has changed profoundly in recent years; by now the so-called Paran...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 17:00
    Duration: 79 MINUTES

  • Guardians of the Rainforest

    The world’s rainforests are a sacred, irreplaceable gift. They are essential to all life on Earth. They contain more than 50% of the plant and animal species on the planet and provide hundreds of millions of people around the world with food, water, medicine, and livelihoods. Rainforests are also critical to combat multidimensional planetary crises such as climate change. They are among the ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 19:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 52 MINUTES

  • Alganesh

    Alganesh

    Director: Lia Beltrami Country: Italy

    'I didn't believe it until I saw it'. A sign on a wall says this, as a hundred Eritrean refugees arrive in Endabaguna collection centre in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, after traveling in an airless truck for four days. Why do people run away? What happens before the infamous images we are shown in the West of refugees crossing the sea? An intense journey through four refugee camps for Erit...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 20:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 60 MINUTES

  • Pol Pot Dancing

    A star dancer at the Cambodian royal court lovingly raises her husband’s little brother as her own son. Decades later, as a forced laborer under the oppressive rule of Khmer Rouge, she discovers that her foster son is none other than Pol Pot. The mass purges of the regime (spanning from 1975 to 1979 – Pol Pot annihilated 25% of Cambodia’s population) are intertwined with painful memories of ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 21:00
    Duration: 102 MINUTES

  • A.T.H.E.N.S. (As The Human Endless Nothingness Survives)

    The cinematographer moves around the big city observing and recording daily activities. However, he focuses on two persons; Panagiotis, a character who triggers quarrels in a neighbourhood, and Apostolis, a kind figure who attempts to convey the words of Christianity around the city streets.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 17:00
    Duration: 70 MINUTES

  • The Carnation Revolution, Portugal From Dictatorship To Democracy

    It has been 50 years since the Portuguese people overthrew their fascist leaders and ended the colonial wars. Young Braathen experienced the upheaval. He goes back and documents.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 18:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 51 MINUTES

  • When Woman Came to Earth

    As a punishment Pandora was given to men. Her dowry, a box filled with the worst disasters, like war, poverty and death was brought to earth. Later René Descartes seek Sigmund Freud for advise.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 19:30
    Duration: 6 MINUTES

  • A Day, 365 Hours

    Two young women are united by their shared experience of being abused. Their unexpected meeting forms a strong bond which gives them both the strength to take on their abusers in court and to help other young women to seek justice.

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 20:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 82 MINUTES

  • The Eternal Memory

    Augusto Góngora, a veteran Chilean journalist and prominent chronicler of the crimes of the Pinochet regime, and Paulina Urrutia, actress, activist and politician, have been a tight-knit loving couple for over 20 years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago, and now they both face the inexorable and accelerating descent of his physical and mental powers together.Heartbreaking and...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 21:30
    Duration: 84 MINUTES

  • Atirkül in the land of real men

    In the vast plains of Kyrgyzstan, men have been cultivating a group sport with a long tradition. The aim of the game buzkashi is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders, all while staying on horseback. Into this tough masculine world enters Atirkül, a woman with an enterprising spirit and a sense of humour. The film follows the everyday life of the headstrong horse l...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 15:00
    Duration: 65 MINUTES

  • Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody Enters

    KAUGERE is a modern-day parable of once tribal men finding their feet through the game of rugby league. Footy coach Albert Muri is no stranger to crime and the raskol gangs that tore his family apart. Police gunned down his eldest son and his second son serves life in prison. Albert’s last great hope is his youngest son, Dia who helps him train a local rugby team, channeling criminal minds i...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 16:00
    Duration: 60 MINUTES

  • A Burst of Song
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    The Golden Lion winner in Venice, Lia Beltrami, presents a story in the slums of Calcutta, where three girls manage to save themselves and pursue their dreams. "When my heart is hard and dry, come down to me, O my Lord, with a rain of indulgence. When grace is lost from life, come to me with an outburst of singing. When ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 17:15
    Duration: 30 MINUTES

  • Searching For Rodakis

    As a Greek tombstone of unknown origin is discovered underneath the floorboards in an old village house in Turkey, an almost forgotten story from the country’s creation unravels; the forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The engraved Cyrillic letters tell of a woman, Chrysoula Rodaki, who died in 1887. And so the search for her descendants begins: It leads director Ke...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 18:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 57 MINUTES

  • COM_DOCUMENTARIES_FINISHED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 19:15

  • Nicasio: Wood does not listen to reason

    Nicasio, an Andalusian cello player from humble origins and strict upbringing reached the heights of flamenco showbiz before Covid 19. With the pandemic, his career came to a unexpected halt which led him to become a street musician. This decision made him understand music and the world in a different way. Unflinching, in spite of the harsh circumstances, he plays every day in the street whi...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 19:30
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 16 MINUTES

  • Abel Azcona: The Triggering Artist

    Abel Azcona acquired international relevance as a result of a series of performance works that have aroused enormous controversy by raising a reflection on some of the great social, political and ideological challenges of the Western world

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 20:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 62 MINUTES

  • Fighting Demons With Dragons

    Three pupils on the precipice between childhood and adulthood are studying at Østerskov Boarding School, one of the most unique schools in the world; here, classes are conducted through role-playing games, and the pupils are taught to come to terms with the trauma and their fluid selves through masquerades and metamorphosis. For two school years, the film follows the pupils and their highly ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 21:30
    Duration: 91 MINUTES

  • Citizen Nobel

    Winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry turned Jacques Dubochet's life upside down and thrust him firmly into the limelight. Receiving attention from all sides the Swiss biophysicist wonders how to make best use of being centre-stage, which battles to fight and how to become a Nobel citizen?

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 12:00
    Duration: 90 MINUTES

  • North Circular

    North Circular is a documentary musical that travels the length of Dublin's North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, exploring the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country's most beloved and infamous places. Told in black and white 4:3 Academy ratio, the film evokes many narratives from the history of the city and nation, from colonialism, ...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 13:30
    Duration: 85 MINUTES

  • Photophobia

    On a cold February morning, 12-year-old Niki and his family arrive at the Kharkiv metro station to take shelter from the terrifying war raging outside. For Niki's family, daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and the boy is not allowed to leave the station premises, living under the constant glow of their neon lights. While aimlessly wandering around the abandoned cars and full platform...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 15:00
    Duration: 71 MINUTES

  • Manifesto

    This found footage film is composed entirely of often-shocking videos that Russian teenagers have posted on social media. Innocent morning rituals on YouTube or TikTok have been placed next to shots of panicking young people fleeing school shooters. And students all over Russia are apparently secretly recording images of violent teachers who can’t keep their hands to themselves. In class the...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 16:30
    Duration: 68 MINUTES

  • Baghdad on Fire

    This film is an intimate and dramatic journey following Tiba, an Iraqi young woman fighting for freedom and equality. Twenty years has passed since the US-led invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein. On October 1st 2022 young men and women gather in thousands at Tahrir square in the middle of Baghdad to celebrate the 3 years anniversary of the largest youth demonstrations in the hist...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 18:00
    Duration: 60 MINUTES

  • Slaves Of The Empire

    Slaves of the Empire unfolds against the backdrop of colonial-era Fort Kochi, a picturesque town in Kerala, India. This evocative film delves deep into the ordinary existence of a dhobi community, laundry workers who were enslaved by the Dutch during the colonial era. Through the captivating journeys of four central characters—Rajan, Pratti, Rajashekharan, and Selvaraj—the film paints a vivi...

    COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 19:00
    Presence of the Director
    Duration: 51 MINUTES

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