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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

 Françoise and Helena meet for the first time and everything begins to unfold. Between them, there is a difference of 40 years and a wheelchair, which is almost nothing. During a cinematographic walk, they wonder how a fall changed their lifestyle? Standing up becomes a cry of life. 

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 02 July 2022 21:00 - Kalamata Short Doc - Jun22
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:27 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 30 Minutes

The documentary "The Future of Clay" focuses on Zhong Ming, a talented Chinese potter searching for his personal voice in his art. The film follows his attempts to combine the traditional Chinese ceramic tradition of Rongchang with modern, Western influences, documenting the challenges he faces. Zhong Ming must balance the demands of the market with his artistic expression. The film explores...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:39 - Kalamata ShortDocs 2024

Duration: 10 Minutes

How does personal experience cease to be an individual matter and become an incentive for artistic creation? The documentary attempts to highlight the way in which History converses with Art and how a personal story, that of Argyro from Peristeronopigi, Famagusta, was a source of inspiration for a poet, two artists and a student documentary production team.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 12:00 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 12:00 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:45 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 29-1

Duration: 28 Minutes

This is a film about the limitless human will. The documentary is a cinematic portrait of the artist Marcos Santos, who was born with cerebral palsy. He has partially impaired speech and without the movement of arms and hands, he paints with his left foot and teaches the children of a peripheral and stigmatized neighborhood of a typical Brazilian city, São José dos Campos, how to create...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 09 January 2022 00:30 - Kalamata Short Doc - DEC21
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 10:30 - School program
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 27 January 2023 10:20 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:30 - Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 28-1

Duration: 15 Minutes

To perform in the Palace of Nations of the United Nations in Geneva, a group of first-time actors with the Down syndrome must push their limits beyond their fears, their limitations and even their egos to work as a team.

SCREENINGS: 18.06 KALAMATA 23:00  /  02.07 AKRATA 23:00

Duration: 64 Minutes

The ultimate documentary biography of Oscar winning Czech director Milos Forman. From his youth in Czechoslovakia under Nazi burden and communist rule to his first successes abroad with the Czech New Wave, to his exile in New York after the Prague Spring to his international fame. The intimate portrait of an outcast with exclusive access to family archive dire...

Duration: 78 Minutes

Street musicians, who have existed naturally in NYC since the cities born, continue to play their music. It’s easy to think street musicians play music for certain success, but they have quite satisfying life having spots and audience anywhere. We want to get closer look at their lives pursuing happiness through music, why they are the quintessential artists of NYC.

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 05 November 2023 17:30 - Kalamata 5-11

Duration: 71 Minutes