Kalamata ShortDoc Anual Festival 27-1

After overcoming a series of personal and practical challenges, a dynamic and creative music teacher manages to lead her students to the international school choir competition.

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 Brazi...

A short documentary film about the special and unknown to most people profession of "Vatchemanis".

Days away from the closest land, lies a mythical underwater volcano. Beneath the waves: a bonanza of life. Massive shoals of fish darken the water and hundreds of sharks patrol the seamount. But like all wild places, this one too is in grave danger. Illegal fishing and sharkfinning might soon deplete this natural wonder and UNESCO heritage si...

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 p...

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.

"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 ang...

Dimitris Zannes has dedicated his life to his two great loves - his wife and the ocean. But now, witnessing an ocean in decline from the front line of his fishing boat, he wonders what kind of legacy he will leave to his sons.

Visiting her Grandmother in Brazil, after years of living abroad, Mariana sets off for the farm where she lives. Even though everything seems the same as her childhood memories, deeper changes soon come to light, questioning her memory and the love they share.

Authentic and raw. "This day will not last" is a diary film that meditates on longing for the future, love, freedom, opportunity, and community. Through personal homemade videos and photos, the director reflects on what it means to be young and queer in Tunisia. It draws attention to Article 230 that still exists by French colonizers to crimi...

"Svet" is a film about faith, love, unity and the power of the human spirit during the siege of Leningrad. The central hero Svet Borisovich Tikhvinsky will tell us about the sufferings and struggles of the inhabitants of Leningrad, who despite the darkness that reigns in the world, are trying to strengthen the light power of their soul an...

Meet Mr. Paschalis, a retired bank employee from Halkidiki, Greece. Mr Paschalis has a passion for collecting old items. A real passion! With 2000 artifacts collected over the past 40 years, he has turned his home into a museum where he transforms into an eccentric tour guide who is always willing to do a show for his visitors.

Mehran is a Kurdish woman who participated in the 24-day war in Iran. The war is known as the 1979 Kurdish uprising in Iran.

This documentary throws us into the unusual aesthetic process of artist Hans Hamid Rasmussen. We follow Hans Hamin's courageous journeys from Norway back to Algeria, unraveling a troubled past and a deep sense of belonging to two different but fascinating cultures.  

MUKTI [Liberation] Singing for the dead Sambhaji Bansode and his wife live in Dharavi, Mumbai. Their profession is an ancient family tradition, to sing bhajans [devotional/spiritual songs] in front of the dead body. They believe that the bhajans release the deceased and bring peace to the family that has been left behind. These songs carry th...

The second wave of Covid significantly increased mortality in hospitals. What does this mean for the work of Mathieu , who works in the morgue of a regional hospital center? How does it relate to those people whose souls have recently left their bodies?

In search of the "lost" residence of Papaflessas. A historical retrospective, through a contemporary confrontation of the experiences of its inhabitants. A space-time of modern Poliani.  

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 ragi...