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8th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival is on! Is back on 8-17 of April 2022 in Kalamata and 11 more cities in the Peloponnese. Including tributes, art exhibitions, educational programs, seminars, co-production initiatives and "Documentaries for everyone".

About the Festival

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News

Solar Cinema Greece is here!

09 September 2022

The Creative Documentary Center of Kalamata, organizer of the Peloponnese International Documentary Festival, leads the way again, bringing for the first time to our country, mobile film equipment...

Two summer screenings at the Creative Documentary Center in colaboration with FeCHA

13 July 2022

Creative Documentary Center is presenting two screenings on the 15th and 16th of July in colaboration with FeCHA - Athens' Hispanic Film Festival.

Check out the film of the Erasmus+ program DocumAction!

18 May 2022

The Kalamata Documentary Center implemented in October 2021 a youth exchange program titled DocumAction created within the ERASMUS + Learning program. The program was attended by 35 young people and...

This Wednesday. The student documentaries of Storylab

11 April 2022

Storylab Film Laboratory is currently in full swing in Kalamata, where film students are being trained in the production of documentary shorts in just five days. Students are guided by Erik Knudsen,...

The 8th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival collaborates with the Greek Society of Cinematographers

11 April 2022

A seminar was organized in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts and the Greek Society of Cinematographers during the 8th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival. Twelve postgraduate...

Last night’s opening ceremony was in a festive atmosphere!

09 April 2022

The opening ceremony of the 8th Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival took place last night at the Cultural Center of Kalamata in a festive atmosphere! A lot of people started...

Screening program of the 8th Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival

Kalamata • Patra • Amaliada • Argos • Tripoli • Nafplio • Sparti • Sparti- PIOP • Filiatra • Gytheio • Xylokastro • Akrata • Dimitsana - PIOPDimitsana - PIOP

All films • Documentaries ONLINE • Tribute: Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa • Tribute: Gender Equality • Tribute: Natalie Halla

Seminars

Seminars for university students, and school children. Making a documentary. Storylab.

Masterclasses

Masterclasses about light in the performing arts. Oral History.

Events

Special screenings, concerts.

Exhibitions

African Ritual Mask exhibition from the largest collection in Greece.

Reetta Huhtanen Gods of Molenbeek

Mary Bouli Go, Look, Listen

Meletis Miras Close to the Core

Denis Bojic Some New Broadway

Tamara Dawit Finding Sally

Natalie Halla Children of the forest

Paola Calvo Luchadoras

Chloé Aicha Boro The Golden Wolf of Balolé

OUR PARTNERS

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Department of Cinema, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Kalamata ShortDocs

The main event takes place in Kalamata, Greece, every October. Special events, masterclasses, retrospectives, educational screenings, seminars and so on are part of the festival.
Films are presented to the public at monthly screenings when they are judged as "official selections" by a three-member jury and the audience chooses the winners. Monthly winners are considered to be "semi-finalists" for the annual event

Semi-finalists