Inside the Mani

Greek Night
2025-11-13 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-11-20 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Athens) | Stathi’s Taverna, Pigi
Live Greek music in Stathi’s taverna in Pigi- dancing and merriment all night long! Enjoy superb views down to the coast, amazing sunsets and Stathi’s renowned trays of starters.
Please note that access by car is limited in the village of Pigi. There is a walk through the village from car parking areas of around 500m. Well worth the effort.
Reservations: +30 6932214562

Live Greek Music
2025-11-13 19:30 - 23:00, 2025-11-20 19:30 - 23:00 | Liastres taverna, Stoupa
Every Thursday at Liastres taverna.
Enjoy a relaxed evening listening to a 2-piece group playing traditional Greek songs. All with the backdrop of Stoupa bay behind them.

"Mood Swings" Live Music
2025-11-14 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-21 21:00 - 23:30 | Medikon – Mediterranean Cuisine, Agios Nikolaos
Reservations: (+30) 27210 79119

Kalamata Dance Cup
2025-11-15 08:00 - 2025-11-17 17:00 | TENTA Sports & Cultural Events Hall
7th World Dance Festival & Dance Competitions of high artistic quality, a now established institution of global visibility with a variety of activities (musical, educational, athletic, social). The festival is open to everyone, amateur and professional dancers of all dance styles and of all ages. Every year it attracts a large number of spectators and participants from artistic institutions throughout Greece and abroad through transnational exchanges and collaborations.
Dance styles: Latin, Ballroom, American Smooth, Rhythm, Showcase, K-Pop, Caribbean Mix, Argentine Tango, Modern-Contemporary, Hip Hop, Break Dance, Commercial, High Heels, Dancehall, Reggaeton, Bellydance, Tribal Fusion, Bollywood, Salsa-Bachata, Ballet, Folklore Dances, Acro & Acro Fit Dance, Jazz/Lyrical, Musical Dance, Cheerleading, Greek dances, Showdance all styles.
It highlights culture and promotes Greek contemporary artistic creation and expression through the collaboration of different arts. With the presence of important Greek & foreign choreographers and dance judges, it promotes dance as an art and sport in Greece, rewards the work and creation of young artists in various types of dance, highlights new trends in dance, through the experiential experience of participants and visitors. It is constantly broadcast by the media, international forums, and is always live streamed internationally with thousands of views.

Live Music
2025-11-15 21:00, 2025-11-22 21:00 | Akti Beach Bar, Santova

Big Xmas Bazaar
2025-11-16 10:00 - 17:00 | Patriko Pub-Cafe, Stoupa
Come and celebrate the season of giving at our Christmas Bazaar in aid of MIAO, Marti’s Fund, Pantazi Cats, Delphinia Horse Fund, and Stoupa Cats!
Explore a delightful variety of stalls filled with unique gifts, handmade treasures, festive treats, and more!

Mani Choir Rehersals
2025-11-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Association of Neochori
For those who love singing. No experience required. The old school, Neochori.

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Central Kalamata mural nears completion - what do you think?
2025-11-19 08:00 - 17:00

Live "Rempetiko" Greek Music
2025-11-19 20:00 - 23:00 | Meze Mani, Agios Nikolaos
Reservations: (+30) 27210 77368

Return To Homeland
2025-11-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Χρύσσα Τζελέπη, Άκης Κερσανίδης Country: Greece
Titus Milech is a psychiatrist who lived and worked in Marseille. He grew up in Germany but he doesn’t identify as German due to the horrific Nazi heritage. After many years of rejection and denial of his origin, he begins a journey back to his hometown of Tübingen, Germany. He returns to the places where he grew up, meets relatives and friends but soon enough he…
Duration: 128 minutes
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Rap Like Grandma: Suni & 7 Princesses
2025-11-21 17:30 - 18:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Πατρίτσια Σκάφσκα Country: Poland
“Rap Like Grandma: Suni & 7 Princesses” follows a group of elderly South Korean women who combat loneliness through rap music, transforming a simple literacy class into a powerful expression of community
Duration: 30 Minutes
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Survivors
2025-11-21 18:30 - 19:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Όλιβερ Στίλερ Country: Germany
As students, Eduardo and Ernesto survived attacks by security forces in 2014 that led to the disappearance of 43 fellow students. To this day, they have not let go of that day and their lives have changed dramatically
Duration: 18 minutes
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8 Seconds
2025-11-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Ζαν-Μαρί Βινκλέρ Country: France

A French filmmaker, stunned by the discovery of an unknown relative who died as a martyr in Germany during WWII, embarks on a personal investigation to reconstruct his family’s lost history.
In 2005, when filmmaker Jean-Marie Vinclair filmed the unveiling of the “Raymond Vinclair” square, he was stunned: why was this rel…
Duration: 79 Minutes
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Wind Has No Tail
2025-11-21 22:00 - 23:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Ιβάν Βλάσοφ, Νικίτα Στάσκεβιτς Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Russian Federation
Nika is one of the youngest daughters in the Yamal nomad’s family. The administration of the nearest village should take her to a boarding school very soon, separating her from family and home for a long time. A nomadic teacher must prepare Nika for departure.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Off The Mark
2025-11-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Βέρα Ουσάκοβα Country: Norway
OFF THE MARK” is a feature length documentary about the climate change, the nature crisis and the violation of human rights in the Norwegian Finnmark. The documentary shows the action of activists against plastic and follows the fight of the Indigenous Sámi people for their land and culture that are threatened by the “Green Shift”.
Duration: 114 minutes
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I Want To Be A Winner
2025-11-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Χριστίνα Βάζου Country: Greece
Over four years, three unaccompanied refugee teens find hope, strength, and solidarity in a Greek shelter, in a coming-of-age journey that transcends borders and labels.
Duration: 73 minutes
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Beware Of The Southern Stars
2025-11-22 18:30 - 19:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Χρήστος Καρτέρης Country: Greece
Master Kostas, continuing the naval tradition of his homeland and family as a ship engineer, spent years sailing across the vast oceans. Now, forced into retirement on land, with the marks of time weighing heavily upon him, he lives amidst his memories and the singing of his canaries. With eyes still filled with the salt of the sea, he waits for the ocean to call…
Duration: 26 minutes
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Frescoes Of The Flooded Monastery ...or How Lisa Saved
2025-11-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Ελεονόρα Τουχαρέλι Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Russian Federation
The director of the Museum of Architecture Liza Likhacheva, is saving unique frescoes of the Apocalypse. Relics from the flooded monastery have been kept in museum storerooms for more than 80 years. They are eaten by mold. Elizabeth wants to collect the frescoes and show them to the world. During this time, her life changes dramatically.
Duration:76 minutes
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Soundtrack to a coup d'etat
2025-11-22 21:30 - 23:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Γιόχαν Γκριμονπρές
In 1960, the Jazz Hour radio show broadcasts Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie behind the Iron Curtain, while decolonization movements are surging across Africa and the civil rights struggle continues in the United States. In Congo
Duration: 150 Minutes
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Under the Flags, The Sun
2025-11-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Χουάνχο Περέιρα Country: Italy
In 1989, the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay marked the end of one of the world’s longest authoritarian regimes, but also the abandonment of the audiovisual archives that had cemented its power. This footage, crafted to shape a national identity and celebrate the regime, was left to fade from memory. Decades later, a trove of unseen …
Duration: 90 minutes
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The Diary Of An Exile
2025-11-23 13:30 - 14:40 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Μερτ Γκιουντζέρ Country: Turkey

A portrait of a revolutionary musician who took a stand against the things he lived through his melodies.
A portrait of a revolutionary musician who took a stand against the things he lived through his melodies.The Diary of an Exile develops around the memories and daily life of revolutionary musician Fuat Saka, who had to leave Turkey just before the Tur…
Duration: 73 Minutes
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White Mountains
2025-11-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Αλέξανδρος Παπαθανασίου, Aλέξανδος Παπαθανασίου Country: Greece
The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.
Duration: 86 minutes
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Abundance
2025-11-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Ντόρα Γιουνγκ Country: Serbia
The film documents a unique development and making of one of the most important festivals of artistic dance in the world, the Belgrade Dance Festival. Thanks to this festival, Belgrade has become an important stopover in biographies of the artists who create trends in the area of artistic dance and theatre, a place where new productions are discovered and where y…
Duration: 62 minutes
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The Strafdivision "999"
2025-11-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Κώστας Σταματόπουλος Country: Greece
In Nazi-occupied Greece, a hidden story unfolds: German and Austrian political prisoners, forced into Penal Battalion 999, defy fascism by deserting and joining the Greek Resistance. A powerful documentary revealing resistance
Duration: 91 minutes
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Return Of The Creeps
2025-11-23 21:00 - 22:30 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Νίκος Χαντζής Country: Greece
Athens 1982. Somewhere between Kypseli, Patisia and Exarchia districts, Creep Records was born. In its four year run, Creep Records featured some of the most important bands of the Greek New Wave, Post Punk and Dark Wave scene on its roster. Creep released a series of iconic records that are, to this day, music works of inestimable sentimental value. A documentar…
Duration: 99 minutes

Between A Rock And A Hard Place
2025-11-24 16:30 - 17:00 | Kalamata Film Festival – Aristomenous 95
Director: Θάνος Λιμπερόπουλος Country: Greece
A small class of Afghan children in a refugee school in Athens, Greece will take a stand as the Taliban rise in power in their country. Are their voices loud enough to draw the world’s attention or will their families and friends face the dangers of this brutal regime?
Duration: 18 minutes
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