A celebration of cinema and culture will be set up for the 6th consecutive year on the idyllic island of Castellorizo, Greece. The 6th "Beyond Borders" International Documentary Festival which takes place under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou is to be held from August 22nd to August 29th and will make Castellorizo, the Aegean Island where Documentary film meets History & Culture once again. The following documentary film...
Project Selection Suggestions
Proposed order of pitching days
Day 1
Women of the Arab Spring
Greek Female Photographers – An Unknown Saga
GO & SEE
Stories of a lie
Carlito (or How I Became a Dog Abuser)
Day 2
Sonaturi Sound System
Movements of the Spirit-Mind
End of season
The Kilit
The big top of AMAR
Day 3
A century of resistance
My Grandmother's Sister
Through the f...
6th “Beyond Borders” International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo island
A celebration of cinema and culture will be set up for the 6th consecutive year on the idyllic island of Castellorizo, Greece. The 6th "Beyond Borders" International Documentary Festival which takes place under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou is to be held from August 22nd to August 29th and will ...
A total of 27 documentaries (11 feature films, 5 medium-length films and 11 short films) from 15 countries will be competing at the 6th Beyond Borders International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo.
Once again the official selection includes compelling films from around the world.
Please, find below a summary and a trailer of all the films in competition:
Short Films in competition:
The Method: Captured / Greece, 2017, 13’ Directed by: Haris Gioulatos
One night in Octo...
By Jean-Marc Thérouanne (International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul)
It is with great sadness that we have just learned of the death of our friend Safarbek Soliev on July 19, 2021.
He was a member of the Jury at the 14th International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul in 2008 where he was paid homage in a retrospective (Achaglon, L’Alliance, Nissour, Waiting Calendar, ...).
Along with Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov, Jamshed Usmanov and Iskandar Usmonov, he was on...
SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN
The Pitching Lab of “Beyond Borders” - International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo is delighted to announce the presence of highly reputable commissioning editors in its evaluation panel. Representatives of BBC Storyville, the German documentary channel Phoenix, and the international Festival Movies that Matter as well as the Institute of documentary film of Prague will honour us with their presence (among others) and will thus...
The Beyond Border Documentary Festival is situated at the Crossroads of History and Cinema, of a scientific, academic activity and an artistic way of representing the world, its events, its people and its evolutions. For History, the search for the truth, for the « real thing » is at the center of attention. Starting from the reality, its representations and manifestations, the historical approach aims to understand the ins and outs, tries to extract one or several meanings, att...
A total of 27 documentaries will be participating at the Competition Section from 17 different countries and 16 more documentary films will be screened at the Panorama section of the 6th Beyond Borders International Documentary Festival, which will be held (August 22rd-29th, 2021) in Castellorizo island, Greece.
Once again, the screenings include a collection of compelling films dealing with historical, cross-cultural events, trends and personalities that have shaped our countries, peoples an...
The 6th Beyond Borders International Documentary Festival, Castellorizo island will run August 22-29.
For its 6th consecutive edition, the International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo, Beyond Borders continues its collaboration with highly respected Greek and foreign institutions which contribute to the evolution and promotion of documentaries and culture around the world.
The Institute of Documentary Film (Prague) is this year’s Academic Partner of Honour.&nbs...
BEYOND BORDERS International Documentary Film Festival Castellorizo island, Greece, August 22nd – 29th 2021
«Castellorizo-The Aegean island where documentaries meet History & Culture»
The preselection committee of the 6th edition of «Beyond Borders» International Documentary Film Festival of Castellorizo island, Greece, this year is made up of disting...
The Hellenic History Foundation ((ΙD.IS.ME.) the organizer and the instigator of the International Documentary Festival «Beyond Borders» was founded in 2008 by a team of young historians and researchers (former collaborators of Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive) with the aim of preserving, documenting and disseminating contemporary history.
With more than 45,000 members across the country, the Hellenic History Foundation is trying hard to increase awareness on...
