Giuseppe Bassi, a vivacious 100 years old man, tells his story about war and being held prisoner in Russia during Second World War. From 1942 to 1946 Giuseppe was a prisoner in several different camps: Tambow, Oranki and Suzdal. He got to know many people, heard lot of stories and came across a truly unique piece of reportage. The narrator and second character...

Duration: 84 Minutes

Bedu is the manifesto of how a people can be violated in its human rights. Through the stories of the son of the Sinai who with the simple and direct poetics of a desert nomad makes himself the spokesperson of the Bedouin tribes of South Sinai, we retrace the whole history of these people: the Bedouins. From the days of the Six-Day War through the tourist revo...

Duration: 57 Minutes

The documentary "La Lixeira - The Invisibles' Dignity" depicts the harsh reality of life in the Maputo dump, Mozambique's capital city. Around 700 families, including men, women, and children, scavenge for food and materials amidst the garbage, struggling for survival. The dump, "La Lixeira," becomes a metaphysical landscape, an allegory of the modern world. Here, tangible and intangible was...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 20:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 12 Minutes

Vale is on the verge of the last match of her career as a professional boxer. Since she was a child she has always been very pugnacious, up to when she had to fight for the right to assisted suicide for her life long partner Fabiano, who became blind and quadruplegic after an accident. Now, as she fights on the ring, her words tell us the unpredictable shock of two lives, the sacrifice durin...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 07 April 2023 22:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Mar23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 20:28 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 20 Minutes

"Vulnerable Beauty" tells how a family of farmers, Michela, Stefano and their two sons Diego and Emma, ​​overcome the trauma of the earthquake of 2016 through the strong bond that holds it together and the strong bond with the land and animals. ...

Duration: 75 Minutes

Twenty one long years. That’s how many Angelo Massaro spent under lock and key, before he was found innocent of a crime he never committed. He was the protagonist of one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice that has ever occurred in Italy. A human odyssey that brings back to life - emotionally and physically - the key places and people that frame the story of this man’s unjust incarce...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 21:00 - Xylokastro program

Duration: 87 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 21:30 - Gythion program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 23:00 - Patras program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:30 - Sparta PIOP

Duration: 79 Minutes

The front line told through the lens of fourteen photojournalists, who with their shots showed the hell, the horrors, the suffering and the indelible scars of war. The voices, photographs and memories of men and women become the stages of a physical and emotional journey between past and present. Because the front line is not only where bombs are shot and drop...

Duration: 85 Minutes