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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 00:30 - Patras program

Duration: 62 Minutes

Ariana Benedé, Ari, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 13. Alongside her mother and a team of health care professionals, they embarked on a race against time to pioneer the first clinical trials of CAR-T therapy, an innovative treatment that modifies immune cells to effectively combat cancerous cells. The documentary narrates the story of a mother and daughter's ba...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 19:00 - Xylokastro program

Duration: 56 Minutes

The ocean isn’t just the habitat of fish, cetacean, seaweed and other living creatures. It is the way of living of many villages and cities, a trade route, a space for leisure, a source of wealth and also of tragedy. The ocean is a lifestyle, an identity. The Atlantic many times determines us as Galicians, but it also has its own identity, and its own sounds. 'MMRRSSMM... (‘The Music of the ...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 31 March 2023 21:40 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 18:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 22 Minutes

A group of homeless women find the best of the therapies in the theater: a place where they bare their souls, manage to escape from their reality and gradually become empowered. In the previous weeks to the new play premiere, we meet these goddesses, who have to face adversity every day, and now face a new challenge: gett...

Duration: 88 Minutes

The documentary "Arkadia" tells the story of Victor, a young shepherd who follows the traditional nomadic lifestyle, moving his animals between mountains and plains. The film explores the challenges he faces in our time, where modern farming is unsustainable and contributes to the increase in wildfires. The inability of young people to buy or rent land in Europe led him to choose this tradit...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 06 January 2023 21:24 - Kalamata Short Doc - Dec22 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 18:48 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 9 Minutes

A short documentary depicting the story of young trans boy Ekai Lersundi, who committed suicide in 2018 after struggling with bureaucracy to administer hormone therapy for gender reassignment.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 11 January 2022 00:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 22:42 - Short Documentaries Screening
- Main Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 21:28 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 20 Minutes

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. A cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past.
The Silence of Others is the winner of a 2019 Goya – Spain...

Duration: 96 Minutes

Alba is a twenty-year-old girl who lives against social structures. It will be the conversations with her family, the spontaneous dialogues between her and the director, and the problems of her day-to-day life that tell her story.

SCREENING: 23.06 KALAMATA 22:45 

Duration: 62 Minutes

A faithful portrait of Cuba's recent history and of the efforts of the American administration to gain influence in the caribbean politics. From the War of Independence and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution to nowadays with the presidency of Miguel Diaz-Canel and the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton by the Trump administration. The beginning and ...

Duration: 86 Minutes

In June of 1979, after the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (Harrisburg, USA), the international anti-nuke movement organised various mobilisations all over the world. In te Basque Country, where four nuclear power plants were slated, it was decided to organise a Day of Action in Tudela.

Gladys del Estal Ferr...

Duration: 66 Minutes

Cold Lands makes a personal journey through the images and cinema, guided by filmmakers and artist like, Theo Angelopoulos, Bego Vicario, Wim Wenders or Rut Hillarp among others. In this non-fictional road-movie their vision of what cinema is, of what is hidden behind the images, intersects with the world of beekeeping, architecture and the human landscape. Ci...

Duration: 66 Minutes

Two women meet at an old apartment in San Sebastian (in the Basque Country). One is alive and a filmmaker; the other is called Elvira Zipitria Irastorza, who died in 1982. The filmmaker discovers that she’s living in a historical place where  Elvira created a clandestine school in the Basque language during the Franco dictatorship. The former tenant of the hou...

Duration: 79 Minutes