CHADDR is a feature documentary about a 17-year-old girl Stanzin. Her hometown in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes: Global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently children had to follow dangerous mountain pass every year to get from their home village to school. It takes Stanzin 4 days to get to school. The times are changin...

Duration: 90 Minutes

Every family saga is a whirlpool of fading memories, drowned secrets, unfulfilled promises, and endless expectations, passed on from one generation to the other, like an atavistic repetition of fantasies and faults. With lake Walchensee in the Bavarian Alps as a jumping-off point, all the way to the legendary 1967’s “Summer of Love” in San Francisco, this dari...

Duration: 112 Minutes

While in rehab, a young man recounts his descent into gambling addiction. The animated documentary “King” offers an intimate insight into a psychological illness that is often overlooked.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:50 - Kalamata Short Doc - OCT21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:55 - Short Documentaries Screening
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 12:25 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 5 Minutes

The rural areas at the Turkish Black Sea coast are transformed by gigantic infrastructure projects. Villages are turned into city suburbs, which will make agricultural activities illegal within a time span of 5 years. Together with the local residents, activist group Kuzey Ormanları Savunması organizes the civil resistance.

Duration: 82 Minutes

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Exactly forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and the Islamic Republic declared. In the 1980’s Ayatollah Khomeini, the so-called ...

Duration: 98 Minutes

Nearly no other part of society is so rigidly separated by gender as the world of sports. In a mixture of fiction, documentary and archival footage, LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING searches for the queer-feminist potential in the Olympic disciplines of running. The film envisions a world beyond stereotypical gender categories. A colourful utopia in cinemascope.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 21:30 - Gythion program

Duration: 79 Minutes

In a secret location in Brasilia sleeps a treasure, the largest private collection of nonconformist East German art from before the fall of the wall. It's collector, Brazilian diplomat Chagas Freitas, is the key to a forgotten part of German history.

Duration: 78 Minutes

“Not Just Your Picture” tells the story of two young German-Palestinian siblings, Ramsis and Layla Kilani, who had their life shattered one early morning during the summer 2014 when their father, Ibrahim, together with his second wife and their five young children, was killed by an Israeli airstrike during the attacks on Gaza. Thrusted into an accelerated proc...

Duration: 56 Minutes

Where do we come from? Where do we go? While carpentering, beekeeping and going on joyrides in his funny car, Mr. Bulisch answers the big questions of his life.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 22:15 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:35 - Short Documentaries Screening
- Main Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 20:22 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 20 Minutes

Summer 2017: ROADMOVIE – father and son, Fred (49) and Jaromir (15), go with their camper in search of a socio-economic movement that has spread in Greece due to the economic crisis.

Their goal: cooperatives, groups, initiatives. They meet people who are building sustainable forms of economy and work in the midst of a crisis. The result is the film portrait of a journey through a bea...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:00 - Tripoli

Duration: 65 Minutes