The creative Documentary Center of Kalamata is making something new! It’s the birth of a second international festival, this time for short documentaries, taking place every Fall, only in Kalamata!

Kalamata International Short Doc Festival will take place for the first time in October 2022 will be 4-5 days and will of course include international competition. The films will be judged by an international committee and will be able to compete for 4 awards: two awards for best Greek and International doc and another two for film student and school student award. The acclaimed films will automatically make it at the main program of Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival.

The selection for the films of the 1st Kalamata International Short Docs Festival has already started in October 2021 and will continue till September 2022. The audience of Kalamata has to decide this time!

How? Every month the filmmakers are able to submit their films through Filmfreeway. There’s the first evaluation by a 3-person committee inside the Center and the best ones are presented into the monthly voting process. The films with the most votes get into the yearly program of Kalamata Short Docs. This process happens once a month.

For the October submissions, the voting will happen this Saturday 13th of November at 20:00, in a special open screening at Creative Documentary Center (Benaki 11).

Pitching Lab in Collaboration with Ionian University

This new festival, which is unique in Greece and internationally, will have lots of parallel events such as workshops, seminars and other educational programs for students of all levels.

We prioritize the young audience to get to know documentary filmmaking and actively make something out of it. We give them the first push into realizing their own creations.

Under the official agreement between the Creative Documentary Center and the Department of Visuals and Sound of the Ionian University, Kalamata Short Doc will host a film student “Pitching Lab”. Pitching your idea is one of the most important processes towards funding and reaching your work towards cinema professionals.

Fresh, new things coming soon! You can submit your films through our Filmfreeway page and check our new Facebook page for more info!

The very important and unique collaboration between Peloponnisos Doc Film Festival and Zinebi FIlm Festival from Bilbao Spain, one of the most important international film festivals.

After the finalists were chosen along with their projects, 3 Basque and 3 Greek filmmakers have already started producing a fragmented documentary around "Claiming Freedom", which will be around 90 minutes long. Moreover, with the collaboration between the two festivals, 63rd Zinebi Film Festival (12-19 November 2021) will screen 3 chosen Greek films from Peldocfest's program from the last 3 years.

Creative Documentary Center of Kalamata invites you to the screening of short documentaries that were filmed by European youth from 7 different countries who are taking part in the youth exchange program DocumAction! The program is funded by the European Educational Program ERASMUS+.

Creative Documentary Center of Kalamata is broadening their educational horizons with a new Erasmus+ program for young adults 18-30 years old.