Kalamata Short Doc - OCT21
Saturday, 13 November 2021
Kalamata CreativeDocumentaryCenter
Μπενάκη 11, 24100, Καλαμάτα
Phone: 2721022376
Contact person: Kyriakos Liarakos

The program includes 13 movies from 2 'to 20' To our friends who will want to take part in the process of evaluating documentaries and choose which will be part of the official program of the 1st International Documentary Festival at noon. Kalamata, special forms will be issued where they will vote for each film they watch.
A dialogue through time, talks between two people who belong to different times.Felix Laforest's life and mine crossed paths when he took my first photographs in his atelier. Almost 60 years later, I had the opportunity to re-enter the same studio, abandoned for decades. Time seemed to stand still in that space. Thousands of photographs taken...
Following 24 hours a family from Greece , Salamina a small island outside of Athens. This family lives in a unique way . They have reached a state of perfect happiness , practising every day complete devosion to the God Krihna.
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...
In recent years, a huge wave of shocking and unbelievable narratives of sexual harassment, assault and rape of women has taken over social media; An unprecedented move by Iranian women, reminiscent of the #MeToo global movement, which has exposed countless sexual assaults incidents around the world.These narratives are astonishing not only in...
In a neighborhood of million-dollar houses, James lives in a house that’s falling apart, tending to his plants that threaten to overwhelm his yard and talks of his past as a young gay man who left his home in the Appalachian Mountains to find a new life in Raleigh, NC.
Intermission
A small break to have a drink or tea
Alone and with incredible willpower, Melina chose to take a trip into the unknown, sacrificing her family to defend Holy Mother Earth. The garbage that has invaded every corner of this world, expresses and confirms the actions of humanity against nature. Melina's mission is a creative effort to restore light to people's hearts and physically ...
“Small Steps” tells about the story of "You-Kalele Kids Zambales," a group of kids from the coastal village of San Felipe. They continuously dream of having a space in the music scene amid their individual limitations and challenges. One of their songs, which is the title of this documentary, focuses on saving the environment and their love f...
The only son of one Montenegrin family has just died in a car accident - they lost head of the family. A poem with tears is heard - a lament. It is sung by his elder sister. Apart from representing mourning, a lament is one of the prerequisites for the dead person’s crossing over to the other side."To beflower marble" is a story of a sister a...
Residents of and visitors to the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer logistical advice, philosophical reckonings, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead." Made in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the detonation of nuc...