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

"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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 ...