The documentary focuses on 4 artists, Kharma Queen, Amelie Tea, Aurora Paola Morado and Dr. Oglie Boss, who describe what it's like to be a Drag Queen-King in Greece's second largest city. The video consists of interviews and scenes from the performances of our Drag artists, as well as footage of our city. Finally, it focuses on the problems they face, but also on how much liberation it is f...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 18:16 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 26 Minutes

The documentary "25km" is a site-specific project inspired by Eleusis, a city historically linked to the elevation of the spirit and the destruction of nature. The film follows four women who walk silently for 25 kilometers, retracing the steps of ancient Greeks who participated in the Eleusinian Mysteries. The walk is a study of human endurance, connection with nature, the need for catharsi...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 09 March 2024 21:39 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb24 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 19:30 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 12 Minutes

"Hantush - a fairytale" tells the story of Salha, a 14-year-old Palestinian refugee girl living in a tent in the Abu Hindi valley. Salha confides her secret: she has a magical sheep, Hantush, who can fly. Together, they escape the harsh reality of occupation, where her father is imprisoned and Israeli soldiers have turned their land into a shooting range. Through her imagination, Salha trave...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 06 January 2023 21:44 - Kalamata Short Doc - Dec22 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 20:48 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 6 Minutes

The film INDIGENIUS LOCI explores the interface between man and nature. Vassilis Fourkiotis, a deep ecologist, shepherd and sociologist, walks in his ancestral lands immersed in spiritual reflections of a postmodern world. Psychogeography, Documentary.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 June 2022 20:51 - Kalamata Short Doc - May2
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 19:06 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 12 Minutes

"No clue about the future" is Melina Efthymiou's first short film documentary, shot over 2020/2021. The goal of this film is to bring to light aspects of the everyday life in the refugee camp of Samos, focusing on the portrait of an asylum seeker who lives in the camp and takes on the role of a teacher, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 04 November 2022 21:45 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 22:32 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 19 Minutes

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A small finch is forced to leave his homeland, which is in a state of war. As soon as he arrives in a foreign country, he witnesses an accident: a car hits the leader of the wild pigeons. The small finch immediately helps the large pigeon. The other pigeons chase him, believing he is stealing their food, while he is simply carrying food for their injured leader. The leader of the pigeons has...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 21:45 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 8 Minutes

Kyriaki, a descendant of Slavophones of Macedonia, describes through family stories and personal experiences, all these reasons that lead her to a search for identity. Speaking two languages and having different feelings for each one, she flips through her family album and lets us take a sneak peek at the history of her place.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 05 February 2022 23:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jan22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 12:29 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 12:28 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:27 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 19 Minutes

"Rooms with a View" documents the transformation of a building in the heart of Athens from a space traditionally occupied by goldsmiths into a luxurious boutique hotel. Through observing daily life on three different floors, the film presents three levels of coexistence: the goldsmiths who continue to work, the construction workers renovating the building, and the tourists staying in the com...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 10 March 2023 21:48 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 18:20 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 22 Minutes

A chance meeting, seventy years later, of Roviros Manthoulis with Euripides, a comrade in EPON during the years of the German occupation, brings to light a "small" story. The tragic outcome of a group of young people who sought to continue the struggle in Athens while the fierce battles between the Republican and the Government army were raging in the mountains.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:35 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 10:10 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 22:29 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 10:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 32 Minutes

Out of the heart of a favela in Rio de Janeiro up to the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, the art of theatre spreads the wings of a group of children for a free flight over their fears, their dreams, and the extreme contradictions of their home city where guns and drums are beating on the same frenzied rhythm.

Duration: 72 Minutes

The documentary "The Ancient Olive Tree" tells the story of the oldest olive tree in the world, located in Vouves, Chania, Crete. Estimated to be 3,000-5,000 years old, the Vouves olive tree has been declared a Natural Monument. The film focuses on the value of ancient olive trees, emphasizing the need for their protection and respect for nature. It also presents the Olive Tree Museum of Vou...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 07 April 2023 21:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Mar23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 19:38 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 12 Minutes

A documentary about the survival of the Mastorochoria of Konitsa in Greece all these years.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 20:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 16:12 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 21 Minutes

Animated short documentary about "The Asia Minor Catastrophe" in 1922. It presents in 10 min the big picture of the complicated, compact, and cosmopolitan history of Smyrna around 1922. The most tragic story of recent Greek history. The film was funded by the Municipality of Kalamaria that received a lot of refugees after the Minor Asia Destruction in 1922 (on the occasion of the 100th anniv...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 17 February 2023 22:47 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jan23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 18:48 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 9 Minutes

The short documentary "Thaleia, missing the 'e'" portrays the life of Takis Moschopoulidis in Prinos, Thasos. Takis, with glue-covered hands and a cigarette perpetually dangling from his lips, is devoted to his wooden creations, offering a glimpse into his world of alcohol and hard-earned life lessons. From seemingly mundane daily moments, stories from his past emerge: prison, the army, Thal...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 31 March 2023 20:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 17:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 30 Minutes

 Premiere nights and farewell screenings at the historic cine IDEAL. 102 years of continuous operation "suddenly fall silent". A cinematic mystique with the music of Mimis Plessas, the great Greek film composer, who this year ideally touched the eternal (1924-2024). 

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 21:10 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 8 Minutes

Arash and Alireza are two young poets from Persia who came as political refugees το Greece. They tell us about the poetry nights that were organized in their country, and how censorship is done in poetry, but also about the way in which they managed to overcome the obstacle of censorship.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 08 January 2022 20:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 16:25 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 14 Minutes

The film tells the story of Maram, who left Yemen with her family, in search of the “Land without sorrows and pains", as they considered Europe. Instead they found themselves "staggering" in the “Land in between”, living in a refugee camp in Lesvos. This is, also, the story of Maram’s first day at school, when a group of xenophobic people blocked her entrance violently, locking the school ga...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 10 January 2022 23:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 11:30 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 4 Minutes

On the fifth day of the Battle of Crete, Saturday 24 of May 1941, three Germans pass by the village of Kakopetros in the Municipality of Platanias, Chania, and approach the home of Antonis Loufardakis, located next to a creek below the central street. Without any reason at all, they enter their home and kill with automatic weapons five women and a two-year old child. Five-year old Maria witn...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 07 April 2023 21:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - Mar23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 20:35 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 15 Minutes

A Documentary about the katikés* of Paros island, Cyclades, Greece. Four people share their stories and memories from their katikés; the residences outside the main island settlements, around which Parians housed their productive agricultural activities and livestock farming.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 25 November 2022 21:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 19:58 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 17 Minutes

Suitable for students: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_ELEMENTARY COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_HIGH_SCHOOL COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL

After overcoming a series of personal and practical challenges, a dynamic and creative music teacher manages to lead her students to the international school choir competition.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 20:55 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 10:00 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 10:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:57 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 30 Minutes

In the Greek countryside, groups of pastoral nomads with their herds move from the plains in the winter to the mountains in the summer since the Middle Ages. But not only humans are nomads… The last Egyptian vultures of Greece are fighting for their own survival. Starting their journey from Africa and travelling 5,000km every spring, they arrive in their breeding spots in Greece, w...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 16 December 2022 21:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 18:35 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 13 Minutes

Manolis Maurakis is the blackbird.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 04 November 2022 22:10 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 15:31 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 14 Minutes

Meet Mr. Paschalis, a retired bank employee from Halkidiki, Greece. Mr Paschalis has a passion for collecting old items. A real passion! With 2000 artifacts collected over the past 40 years, he has turned his home into a museum where he transforms into an eccentric tour guide who is always willing to do a show for his visitors.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 21:45 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 20:28 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

Duration: 4 Minutes

The 24th anniversary of Giannis' work as a garbage collector in the trucks of the Municipality of Keratsini-Drapetsona. His daily struggle also reveals the secrets of the neighborhoods through their remnants. Life persists in an environment of homeless and stray animals, the experience of garbage, the terrifying climbing on the piles of garbage and the desperate struggle of human dignity for...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 05 March 2022 20:44 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 18:52 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 16 Minutes

Dimitris Zannes has dedicated his life to his two great loves - his wife and the ocean. But now, witnessing an ocean in decline from the front line of his fishing boat, he wonders what kind of legacy he will leave to his sons.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 03 September 2022 22:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - Aug22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 13:29 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 13:28 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:51 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 13 Minutes

The documentary "Extra Time / 102" is an anthropological record of a 102-year-old man's life, focusing on his daily routine and his gradual withdrawal from active life. Following the principles of observational cinema, the film invites us to reflect on the nature of time, aging, and mortality. Living alone, with almost no contact with the outside world, the protagonist is in a transitional p...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 31 March 2023 20:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 20:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 28 Minutes

In the film "Butterflies in the sky: the Cretan mantinades" academics, writers, singers and mantinadologists present mantinada as a poetic genre, the process of its creation and transmission as well as its place in the living cultural reality of Crete, The Cretan mantinada is soon to be inscribed in the national list of intangible heritage.

The documentary "Platedes" explores the history of an abandoned settlement, Platedes, in Ikaria. Through testimonies from residents of the village of Maratho, who are descendants of the former inhabitants of Platedes, the tragic story of the settlement's desertion during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic is revealed. The narration presents the image of a settlement since overtaken by nature. The...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:49 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 9 Minutes

A short documentary film about the special and unknown to most people profession of "Vatchemanis".

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 21 December 2021 20:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 11:00 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 11:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 12:13 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 26 Minutes

In these lessons they get to know themselves, their bodies, a theatrical space and the rules of a theatrical performanc...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 06 February 2022 00:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jan22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 27 Minutes

Rebetiko Underground - A Research on Rebetiko, is a short documentary film about the spread of rebetiko music and culture over the years in Europe.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 June 2022 20:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - May2
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 14:34 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 30 Minutes

The documentary follows Giannis, a former sailor now living on the streets of Athens. Collecting cables and recyclable materials from the garbage, Giannis struggles to survive, battling poverty and social marginalization. The film documents his daily life, his conversations with other homeless people, his memories of his seafaring years, and the dignified life he once had. The harsh images o...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 16 December 2022 22:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:16 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 12 Minutes

A documentary that describes the story of the renovation of the two southernmost lighthouses in land Europe, from the point of view of the architect who undertook their reconstruction. The project was difficult and full of unexpected incidents, but he and his team managed to complete it successfully.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 25 November 2022 21:35 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 11:29 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 15:52 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 11:28 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 10 Minutes

When his grandfather begins to have the first signs of dementia, the director performs a ritual of preliminary mourning in the abandoned cottage of his grandparents. Using the anthropological concept of the borderline, he tries to slow down a moment of great change and open a conversation that his family avoids.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jul22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 19:43 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 18 Minutes

Wall of shame is a participatory/journalistic documentary film. It takes as a pretext the violent attack on gathered refugees in the central square of Mytilene in 2018 and tries to analyze the reasons why the former "island of solidarity"reached this point. Above all, it tries to open a dialogue about the wrongs of our society and how we can extricate ourselves from them. The documentary fea...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 08 January 2022 21:50 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 12:30 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 30 Minutes