In a suburban middle school, an eighth grade pupils class studies the Barber of Seville work. Between childhood and teenage years, these teenagers comprehend the theme of love in their own way. The camera explores the sensibility of these « hearts » bringing their own perceptions to light around the strong and mysterious felling of what is love.

Duration: 34 Minutes

Globalization and politico-religious pressure are ruthlessly stamping out the last remnants of traditional culture. In Tajikistan, most of which is mountainous, music and dancing still accompany people in joy and sorrow — as they did a thousand years ago.
British musician Leo Abrahams, hearing a recording of maddoh many years ago, was struck by its unusual beauty, and came to Tajikistan...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 October 2023 21:00 - Xylokastro

Duration: 45 Minutes

And the greatest of these is love.The letters of the director's grandfather and grandmother from the 1940s and the grandmother's diaries from the 2000s are the subject of a conversation that goes back decades. Time passes and in the end there is only one left with endless longing, but grateful for the life they have lived.

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

Summer 2016, somewhere in French Drôme Provençale, a mysterious plague strikes the villages: swarms of white butterflies have invaded the region. As night approaches, everyone is shutting down in their homes, trapped by the seemingly unstoppable vermin. As the big swarm approaches, Lou discovers both the strange insects and her feelings for her friend Sam. By the end of the season, the moths...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:00 - Kalamata

Duration: 48 Minutes

In April 2015, a ship carrying 800 refugees sank off the coast of Libya, marking another circle on the tragedy calendar of our times. The victims are nameless, faceless figures that slip into oblivion, bearing only numbers, as if objects on a shelf. Remains of clothes, soaked banknotes, worn-out photos, personal items, are all that is left of them, an array of...

Duration: 62 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

"38 days" is a drama documentary recreating real-life painful experiences through the eyes of Philippos, a prisoner of war. The stories are facts told by life eyewitnesses in a diary/interview context. Philippos describes his own ordeal as a 17-year-old soldier who fought a war, was a prisoner of war, and a refugee of war. The feelings of angst and pain in captivity were the reason Philippos...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 04 November 2022 21:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 13:00 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 13:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:18 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 28 Minutes

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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

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

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

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

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, 24 November 2024 21:00 - Akrata program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 18:00 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 21:30 - Sparta program

Duration: 60 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

They say that cycling is just a pretext. An excuse to open doors and minds. Following Fred Hornie from Bishkek to Lenin Peak, Kanymda Kumiss is more than just a movie about cycling. It's an adventure. Descending rushing rivers with his inflatable, sharing moments with nomads on the 30th anniversary of the country's independence, we follow the rider on excellent rides, starting at an altitude...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 25 June 2022 21:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - May2
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 15:02 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 29 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 17:00 - Patras program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 21:30 - Nayplion program

Duration: 60 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

Maria Luiza da Silva is the first transgender in the history of Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work as military, she was retired due to disability. The movie investigates the motivations for her prohibition to wear the feminine uniform and her trajectory into affirmation as a transgender, military and Catholic woman.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 10 April 2022 16:00 - Patras

Duration: 80 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

"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

Suitable for students: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_ELEMENTARY COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_HIGH_SCHOOL COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL

Homan Singh Shiv Bakhti lives from agriculture in the hills of Sindhupalchok district, east of Kathmandu. He loves and adores his buffalo, which has brought him all the good things in his life. All is well until devastating floods ravage the area. Homan Singh's buffalo disappears.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 05 March 2022 21:17 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:20 - Short Documentaries Screening
- Main Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 20:58 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 15 Minutes

Suitable for students: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_ELEMENTARY COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_HIGH_SCHOOL COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL

Charlie is 10 years old and diagnosed with Asperger. He is proud of his diagnosis, but sometimes wishes he was more like the other boys in his class. He feels that diversity leaves him on the sidelines sometimes. Because of Asperger, Charlie struggles with team sports. But he has found two things he loves to do, surfing and dancing. We watch Charlie's ups and downs during this year's surfing...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 10 January 2022 23:10 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 12:25 - School program
- Main Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:29 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 15 Minutes

Suitable for students: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_ELEMENTARY COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_HIGH_SCHOOL COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL

RAJA BHAU is a sensitive heart-warming story of an Indian transman’s acceptance, by himself and his family. Merlin, born as a girl, felt right from his childhood that he was trapped in the wrong gender. But it took a lot of courage and determination for Merlin to transition to become a transman. With unflinching support from his mother who has stood with him through thick and thin, and accep...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 07 April 2023 21:55 - Kalamata Short Doc - Mar23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 17:30 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 25 Minutes

A documentary about a rural family in Iran that has two teenage daughters, with their oldest child working to help the family. Together they face difficulties and obstacles, especially because she uses a motorcycle for work which is forbidden for women.

Duration: 30 Minutes

Visiting her Grandmother in Brazil, after years of living abroad, Mariana sets off for the farm where she lives. Even though everything seems the same as her childhood memories, deeper changes soon come to light, questioning her memory and the love they share.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 08 January 2022 20:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 19:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

Duration: 25 Minutes

Ariarca, grandniece of the poet Javier Heraud, opens the trunk of memories and discovers a story to tell: His great-uncle, poet and guerrilla fighter was murdered at the age of 21 in the jungle of Peru in 1963. Despite from his young age, Javier Heraud left a fundamental poetic work for Peruvian poetry. Ariarca is the same age as when her great-uncle died.

Duration: 96 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

A mini-documentary about the untold contributions of lesbians during the A.I.D.S. epidemic.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 03 September 2022 22:45 - Kalamata Short Doc - Aug22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:54 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 14 Minutes

Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, after a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States. When, 1946, Jackie broke the colour barrier in Major League Baseball, the impossible seemed possible in a segregated North America. But did Montréalers use this...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 28 November 2024 18:00 - Nayplion program

Duration: 90 Minutes

A documentary which follows the lives of children recovering from their involvement with the drug war in Brazil. Set in a rehabilitation centre on the edge of the jungle, Dear Child follows a group of kids who have been rescued from the drug war, as they learn to become children again and not soldiers or drug addicts.

Duration: 86 Minutes

Fabiano is haunted by nightmares. They are a reflection of his life as the heir of his father’s small-scale agricultural business, located in an isolated valley of Southern Switzerland. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the special alp cheese that first made his hippie parents back in the 1980s. But nothing is going the way i...

Duration: 82 Minutes

Fifteen years after a psychotic event on the South China Sea flipped his life upside down, Alex, a sensitive, refined and schizophrenic man is at a crossroads. His grand-mother and confidante, who would like to die with peace of mind, insists that he tries to find a girlfriend. His encounter with a young psychotic woman gives birth to an ardently passionate re...

Duration: 65 Minutes

The film will delve into the felings of five women who experienced heavy loss, so the pain of waiting and the postponement of destiny were their common characteristics.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 23:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 13:55 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 23 Minutes

The documentary "Breathe" tells the story of Julie Ridge, a clinical social worker diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 35. Julie, using long-distance swimming, found a way to cope with the challenges of her mental health. The film explores her relationship with swimming, how the water helped her manage difficult times, and how this experience led her to help others with similar problems. ...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 17 February 2023 22:15 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jan23 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 16 Minutes

The film is about indigenous cultures living in the Arctic Circle within the borders of the states of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia. The cultures themselves did not draw up these borders. Rights have been violated. Ways of life inherited from ancestors have largely been crushed, but the inner worldview of the people has withstood and remained, at least until n...

Duration: 87 Minutes

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

90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing blocks. This in itself is remarkable, as Krystyna is almost blind, but this does not prevent her from writing passionate and eloquent poetry that celebrates life. She writes her poems on paper, but this proves to be a problematic method since one of her pens did not work, which means that a recent poem is ...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 10 January 2022 23:35 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 13 April 2022 18:30 - Argos
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 20:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 22 Minutes

MUKTI [Liberation] Singing for the dead Sambhaji Bansode and his wife live in Dharavi, Mumbai. Their profession is an ancient family tradition, to sing bhajans [devotional/spiritual songs] in front of the dead body. They believe that the bhajans release the deceased and bring peace to the family that has been left behind. These songs carry the philosophy of life and death. Despite the sancti...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 02 April 2022 19:46 - Kalamata Short Doc - Mar22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 20:57 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

Duration: 28 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

Authentic and raw. "This day will not last" is a diary film that meditates on longing for the future, love, freedom, opportunity, and community. Through personal homemade videos and photos, the director reflects on what it means to be young and queer in Tunisia. It draws attention to Article 230 that still exists by French colonizers to criminalise homosexuality, with hopes for a better futu...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 03 September 2022 23:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Aug22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 19:25 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

Duration: 26 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

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

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

Why I'm A Vegan is a multimedia short film that explores musician Moby's journey to veganism and animal rights advocacy.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 10 January 2022 22:45 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:04 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 9 Minutes

Wollongong, New South Wales,1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks, the city's main employer, working class/migrant women refused discrimination. Their 14-year campaign for the right to work pitted them against BHP, the richest and most powerful company in Australia. In Women of Steel, they tell their personal stories – from the unemployment line to the factory gate to the High Court. It's an e...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 10 April 2022 18:00 - Patras

Duration: 56 Minutes

An elderly disabled couple living in a small village in the north of Iran faces a tragedy when their youngest son falls into a coma after an accident. Defying Islamic burial traditions, overcoming the problems of bureaucracy and turning destruction into hope, parents agree to donate their son’s organs. Five years after their brave decision, a film crew visits them and records the slow march ...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 13 November 2021 21:50 - Kalamata Short Doc - OCT21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 14:37 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 15 Minutes

Bajo Fuego depicts the unraveling of peace for a group of coca growing peasants in the southwest of Colombia. The film takes the perspective of the ‘cocaleros’ and over a period of 3 years shows how they survive in the midst of the most difficult circumstances. The government delays in fulfilling what it promised in the agreement, economic difficulties arise f...

Duration: 85 Minutes

In February 2020, the crossing points that allow contact between the separated communities of Cyprus were closed for the first time, almost two decades after their opening. The reason given was the effective management of the covid-19 pandemic. The closure has shattered relationships and deeply affected people's lives, which have been built across the divide. These are their stories.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 06 August 2022 23:48 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jul22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:46 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 23 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

Me The People explores how elected leaders of western countries increasingly use wedge politics on key divisive issues, giving rise to a new kind of populist leader. They are disruptors with a new playbook. But are they also expressing the will of the people?

SCREENING: 22.07 KSYLOKASTRO 21:00

Duration: 76 Minutes

From Kobe to Copenhagen and from the proper and polished to the wild and free. Opposites come together in the Japanese classical pianist and performance artist Eriko Makimura, who is facing and liberating herself from her past.  

Japanese Eriko Makimura is very talented on the piano. Her art and performances unite...

Duration: 72 Minutes

STALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse—directed by Iara Lee (a Cultures Of Resistance film)—a documentary that examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster, illegal hiking adventurers (known as “stalkers”), extreme sports afficionados, artists, and tour companies have...

Duration: 57 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

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

Mehran is a Kurdish woman who participated in the 24-day war in Iran. The war is known as the 1979 Kurdish uprising in Iran.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 05 February 2022 22:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jan22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 20:32 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

Duration: 6 Minutes

The film follows six people with dual European nationalities for four years. Some of them are confronted with the current political events in Europe, like Brexit, the Catalan crisis in Spain, yellow vests in France – and in the end the (possible) consequences of Covid 19. At the same time, we see their personal lives: some of them get engaged or get married, b...

Duration: 60 Minutes

The main battle in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising occured on Muranowski Square, during which a blue and white flag was raised over the roofs. However the story of those fighters disappeared from history books, but why? We are going exactly to find out along with their stories. 

SCREENINGS: 18.07 LEVIDI 23:00  /  19.07 PATRAS 23:00 

Duration: 61 Minutes

In the last decade of socialist Hungary – Epipo, an imaginary democratic country was the place of a magical summer camp that every child wanted to go to. But in the shadows of Epipo’s own language, passport, anthem and rules, the camp was also a place of humiliation and abuse. Twenty-five years passed in silence until a scandal shook Hungary’s elite. When the ...

Duration: 84 Minutes

The Documentary Workshop No. 2 is the story of an elderly man who has been working in the autopsy department of the Sulaimaniyah University of Medical Sciences for 14 years. For these 14 years he has been working on corpses. He eventually decides to retire. 

"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

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

While working on her first documentary film, director Areum meets an activist and chef, Seongman, and gets married. After getting married, she takes Seongman with her to study in France. Seongman falls into depression as not being able to read or speak the language nor work. After the birth of their baby, Areum starts concentrating on her studies and filmmaking, leaving Seongman alone in par...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 13 April 2022 17:00 - Patras

Duration: 86 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

What if the only language you've ever known is threatened to be extinct? Three deaf protagonists belonging to three different generations are fighting to keep the sign language, the only language in which they profess love and friendship, hardship and grief, alive.

Duration: 49 Minutes

Ragnhildur “Ragga” Jónsdóttir is a seer who communicates with a parallel realm of elves and invisible spirits. Her clientele includes politicians and businesses, rushing to consult with her before any major land transaction. When Ragga receives a calling to serve as nature’s herald, she embarks on a journey to protect a lava field about to be razed by road con...

Duration: 89 Minutes

The film is about the process of creating tables on the situation in Ukraine after February 24.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 03 September 2022 22:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Aug22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 23:52 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 10 Minutes

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: Sunday, 24 November 2024 19:30 - Akrata program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 18:30 - Kalamata Program

Duration: 51 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

Ernesto is one of many FARC guerrillas who dream about a better country worth fighting for, but this time without a weapon. However, the peace agreement — aimed at ending 52 years of armed conflict — throws the polarized society into chaos, with everyone fearing for the future and their own survival. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country when d...

Duration: 91 Minutes

"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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 20:30 - Amaliada program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 20:30 - Tripolis program

Duration: 75 Minutes

The world’s largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel their culture and language are threatened and are the main reasons for the many suicides among young people. But the Danish speaking G...

Duration: 96 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

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

The documentary "Dust Never Settled" documents the aftermath of the 2020 Artsakh War in Armenia and Artsakh. Through interviews with soldiers, medical personnel, and displaced families, the film portrays the struggle of individuals to rebuild their lives following this tragic event. The film gives a voice to those who otherwise wouldn't be able to share their stories. The testimonies of woun...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 02 December 2022 22:25 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 21:25 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 20 Minutes

Despite a deeply unbalanced game, Maxima, Bertha and Carolina share a common goal: they are leading today's environmental fight against modern corporate conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations are trapped in a global race to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk? When...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 18:00 - Akrata program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 23 November 2024 18:00 - Filiatra program

Duration: 60 Minutes

I'm Just Here for the Riots is a feature-length documentary that dives into the mob chaos and dramatic aftermath of Vancouver’s shocking 2011 Stanley Cup riot. Through riveting archival that plunges viewers into the madness and privileged access to key characters who experienced that night and its fallout, the film tells the untold story of the world’s “first smartphone riot”. A decade after...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 21:00 - Nayplion program

Duration: 78 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

The documentary "Earth Gods" is an aesthetic cinematic study of life in an Indian village in 2019. The film primarily uses visuals and sounds of nature, avoiding dialogue, to create an atmosphere of serenity and mystery. We observe the daily lives of the villagers, their work, and their religious customs, with images that alternate between community life and nature. The focus is on rituals d...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 02 December 2022 21:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:28 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 13 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

"Motive" tells the story of a woman, representative of any individual whose personal space is defined by what would be considered atypical for the majority. The protagonist vitality depends upon sustaining her daily patterns, tasks, and responsibilities toward what she cares for, and above all towards herself. We observe the character's drive to stay connected to what best represents her at ...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 June 2022 20:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - May2
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:15 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 12 Minutes

Cristina Pinto - the first woman among Camorra killers - is struggling with the challenges of a “normal” life after her release from prison where she spent 24 years.

SCREENING: 20.06 GYTHEION 21:00

Duration: 80 Minutes

An animated documentary about the importance of Shakespeare's classic plays for digital natives in Singapore. Live action is combined with animation.The film was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:17 - Kalamata Short Doc - OCT21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 12:08 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 17 Minutes

"Pepedrilo" portrays José's, also known as "Pepe" or "Little Crocodiles", unique connection with nature through his care of a crocodile sanctuary in Manzanilla, Mexico. The sanctuary, established in 1995 by a group of landowners, has become a nature reserve, providing shelter for crocodiles in need of protection and care. The film documents Pepe's daily life, his dedication to crocodile cons...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 02 December 2022 21:35 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 19:18 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 20 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

Days away from the closest land, lies a mythical underwater volcano. Beneath the waves: a bonanza of life. Massive shoals of fish darken the water and hundreds of sharks patrol the seamount. But like all wild places, this one too is in grave danger. Illegal fishing and sharkfinning might soon deplete this natural wonder and UNESCO heritage site of its natural wonders.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 03 September 2022 21:40 - Kalamata Short Doc - Aug22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 11:27 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 11:26 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 11:58 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 15 Minutes

Suitable for students: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_ELEMENTARY COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_HIGH_SCHOOL COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SENIOR_HIGH_SCHOOL

In the highlands of Peru, he lives with his dog, Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent, dedicated to selling sweets. As the rainy season begins, she recounts parts of her life, until one afternoon something fateful happens that seems to be able to make even the skies cry.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Sep22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 21:49 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 18 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

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

The documentary "After Death" tells the story of a man working as a blacksmith in Kobani, whose life was dramatically altered after the ISIS attack on the city in 2014. Searching for himself amidst the ruins and debris of war, he collects remnants of weapons and missiles and transforms them into works of art. Through his art, he strives to create hope and optimism, regenerating life from dea...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 09 March 2024 21:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb24 Selections
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 21:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 11 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

A Colombian Family tells the story of an idealistic mother Ruby, who is fighting for the poorest people in Colombia, and her daughter Yira, who lives in exile in Cuba. In the shadow of the first peace treaty in decades, mother and daughter are trying to 
Duration: 80 Minutes

MISHA is an impressive portrait of Mikhail Bezverkhni, a 73-year-old top musician of Russian origin, who won the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels in 1976. On his return, he was put under house arrest by the KGB for 14 years. Only in 1990, after the implosion of the Soviet Union, could he emigrate to Belgium. COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 October 2023 20:30 - Sparti
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 October 2023 19:30 - Kalamata
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 October 2023 19:30 - Kalamata 29-10
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 October 2023 20:30 - Argos

Duration: 62 Minutes

"Monologue" tells the story of Mom Heyam Encü, a Kurdish mother who lost two sons. Sivan died during a Turkish attack on Robozik in 2011, and Sinan in a car accident a few years later. Through a heartbreaking monologue, the film captures the mother's pain and loss, as well as the daily life of the Kurdish community living under the constant fear of attacks. The mother's monologue denounces t...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 02 December 2022 22:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - Nov22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 21:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 18 Minutes

Bum or genius, sage or madman - Galilei Simeonov lives above human gossip and definitions. He is a 91-year-old professor at the Academy of Arts who choose to live in the countryside, among his paintings. In our meetings Galileo shares bits of his life and his thoughts on art, on the great personalities of human history, on the meaning of the effort.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 11 January 2022 00:20 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
- Main Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 15:07 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 27 Minutes

Brendan, an American anthropologist, used to wander the planet exploring human nature in all its forms and beauty. But today, he has to embark on a very different project. After falling in love with a Danish woman, he ends up a stay-at-home dad of two toddlers in Copenhagen, and his own boring life as a caregiver becomes his only object of study. Once unable t...

Duration: 52 Minutes

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

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

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

Australian Jewish artist Ella Dreyfus grew up with little knowledge of her family’s tragic losses in the Holocaust. She sets out to uncover their history through her uncle George in Melbourne and her cousin Jonathan in Berlin, whilst finding her own way of re-connecting to Germany.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 08 January 2022 19:35 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 11:30 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 30 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

The halny wind is the most unpredictable element in the Polish mountains. It comes in cycles, in every spring and autumn. One never knows if or when it turns into a destructive gale. Halny particularly affects the inhabitants of Zakopane and its area, changing picturesque mountain trails into a set for an untamed performance of nature.

Duration: 75 Minutes

Shepherd Stijn has a romantic world view, but his idealism clashes with the harsh reality of having to be a modern entrepreneur. In this poignant and cinematic documentary we come close to Stijn and his family in their quest to keep the tradition of sheep herding alive. Will his struggle pay off or is he forced to go with the flock?

Duration: 81 Minutes

The story of people who made possible the first manned flight into space, but remained behind the scenes. The main characters of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers of the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau in Voronezh. They designed and built the third stage of the rocket engine, without which Gagarin's spacecraft would not have reached orbit on April 12,1961.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 08 January 2022 21:25 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 12:00 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 11:34 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 12:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 24 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

The short documentary "Carpenter" tells the story of Hussein Mahmood, an elderly Kurdish carpenter who crafts wooden prosthetic limbs for people who have lost their legs, likely landmine victims. The film captures the carpenter's dedication and skill as he uses simple tools and materials to create these prosthetics, providing mobility and dignity to those he serves. We witness the constructi...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 20:12 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 13 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

After Burkina Faso’s October 2014 popular uprising, the young poet Bikontine starts to question his dreams of seeking a better life in the West. He decides to go meet his fellow citizens along the country’s only rail line. From South to North, through cities and villages, he learns about their dreams and disappointments, confronting his poetry with the realities of a rapidly shifting society...

Duration: 109 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 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

In October 2014, the ‘Balai Citoyen’ (‘Citizens’ Broom’) revolt led to the overthrow of Burkina Faso's dictator, Blaise Compaoré. Rapper Serge Bambara (aka Smockey), was among the insurgents. He is now considered to be one of the orchestrators of this political change. The film immerses the audience in his daily life as leader and artist, inspired by Thomas Sa...

Duration: 67 Minutes

In the heart of Ouagadougou, a granite quarry where nearly 2,500 people, adults and children, work in poor conditions, on the sidelines of a society that refuses to see them. But in 2014, the revolution passed by and blew on the spirits, a wind of emancipation and hope. And now the miners are considering a better future by freeing themselves from the yoke of intermediaries to sell directly t...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:00 - Kalamata

Duration: 65 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

Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.

Duration: 98 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 22 November 2024 20:30 - Tripolis program

Duration: 62 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

“All together” is a documentary commemorating the terrorist attacks of 22 March 2016 in Brussels Through the eyes of the two filmmakers, victims themselves, it tells the story of Christelle, Abdellah, Georges and Sebastien who are also survivors of the Brussels attacks. 3 years after the tragedy, on the road to resilience, reconstruction is not always easy. Th...

Duration: 60 Minutes

Ophir tells the story behind the likely birth of the world’s newest nation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. The story of an unknown indigenous revolution and a decade-long war. The film documents its origin and aftermath, where antagonistic visions of the world collude and collide. A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of people for freedo...

Duration: 97 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

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

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

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

During the creation of the 2017 season show of the Contemporary Dance Company of Angola coreographed by Mónica Anapaz, five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.

Most of them - coming from other provinces of the country - bring memories and traditions with them wh...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Wednesday, 13 April 2022 16:00 - Kalamata

Duration: 72 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program

Duration: 60 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 "Sticks & Stones - The Truth of Cyberbullying" explores the serious consequences of cyberbullying on adolescents. Through interviews with experts and personal testimonies, the film highlights how social media shapes young people's perception of reality and their self-esteem. The film emphasizes that the online world is not separate from the real world but rather an integr...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 18:00 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 30 Minutes

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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

In June 2000, a bloody war raged in the streets of the city of Kisangani, leaving around 1,000 dead, and at least 3,000 wounded.

Kisangani’s civilian victims were promised compensation, but 18 years have passed and they’ve still received nothing. Weary of all the false promises, some of them decide to go to the capital Kinshasa to voice their demands. They travel by boat along the Co...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 16 April 2022 13:00 - Kalamata

Duration: 90 Minutes

Feature documentary March for Dignity follows a small group of LGBTI+ activists in Tbilisi, Georgia as they attempt to conduct the first Pride march in the country, They face overwhelming opposition from far-right groups, the government, and the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has led to a history of attacks on the LGBTI+ community, often inciting rallies of t...

Duration: 75 Minutes

Oh salty sea, so much of whose salt / Is Portugal's tears! / All the mothers who had to weep for us to cross you! / All the sons who prayed in vain! / All the brides-to-be who never married for you  /to be ours, oh sea! / Was it worth doing? Everything's worth doing / If the soul of the doer isn't small." (Fernando Pessoa) Eighteen years after Zombietown 23, twelve after The Master Pers...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 04 December 2021 23:45 - Kalamata Short Doc - NOE21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 30 January 2023 14:23 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 30-1

Duration: 9 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program

Duration: 68 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

A small red panda, a rare species, has been left homeless due to the recent 16-day fire in the intermediate hills of Nepal, another in the growing number of symptoms of the climate crisis that saddens neither man nor animal.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 05 March 2022 22:44 - Kalamata Short Doc - Feb22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 12:38 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 10 Minutes

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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 film "Roots" approaches the everyday life of my grandmother, Yiannoula, in an attempt to portray a special bond between herself and two lemon trees that grow in the yard of her house, in which she lives as a refugee. It is about a bond which connects her with her beloved village, Karavas, which she cannot enjoy anymore due to the Turkish invasion on the 20th of July, 1974, but still evok...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 04 November 2022 22:05 - Kalamata Short Doc - Oct22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:13 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 5 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

Silêncio - Vozes de Lisboa (Silence - Voices of Lisbon) is a documentary set amongst the backdrop of a gentrified Lisbon. Following the footsteps of Céline - a local foreigner who has lived in Portugal for 20 years - we are introduced to Ivone Días and Marta Miranda, two female singers from different generations who fight for the survival of their art and their community. Their common langua...

Duration: 86 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program

Duration: 88 Minutes

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 - Kalamata Program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 20:00 - Leonidio program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 20:30 - Filiatra program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 24 November 2024 11:00 - Dimitsana PIOP

Duration: 51 Minutes

Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is born in Kamchatkan waters and spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters - to give offspring, start the circle of life, and die. It is an inexhaustible resource that feeds billions of people on the planet, restored every year! But soon, we may find ourselves facing the unimaginable: humans will exhaust the inexh...

Duration: 51 Minutes

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Boniface “Softie” Mwangi has long fought injustices in his country as a political activist. Now he’s taking the next step by running for office in a regional Kenyan election. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents becomes increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone. And Boniface soon finds that challenging strong political dynasties is putting his family at risk. Should...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 17 April 2022 15:00 - Kalamata

Duration: 96 Minutes

On October 18, 2019, Chile lives the most important social up-rising since its return to democracy. “Italy Square” (neuralgic center of the capital), is re-baptized by the protesters as “Dignity Square”, transforming it into an iconic place of social demands.

SCREENINGS: 23.06 GYTHEION 22:15 / 04.07 AKRATA ...