The Punto de Vista festival announces its Official Selection, made up of seventeen films from thirteen countries, as well as its opening and closing sessions.
The opening and closing of the festival will feature Tent City by Miñuca Villaverde and Sepio by Frans van de Staak, respectively
This year nearly 900 films were entered, among them the ten features and seven shorts that will eventually take away the festival prizes
The Official Selection of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre, to be held in Pamplona from February 24th to March 1st, was announced today. The event, promoted by the government of Navarre and organised by the public company NICDO, presented its nineteenth edition by announcing the seventeen films that are to make up one of its most celebrated sections. In total, ten feature-length films and seven shorts will be competing for the festival prizes.
Highlights of the Official Selection include the world premiere of the new feature-length film by Chilean film-makers José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola (Cuadro negro), landmark figures in contemporary cinema, as well as the world premieres of two films by young Spanish directors (El viento que golpea mi ventana, by Emilio Hupe, and A., by Ramon Balcells) together with the South Korean short Writing Poems at the End of the World, by Wonwoo Kim. Mention must also be made of the premiere in Navarre of the latest film by Maddi Barber and Marina Lameiro, Cambium, which arrives in our region after visiting major international festivals including Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.
The opening and closing sessions will be devoted to two historic works that were underrated at the time but which the festival wishes to retrieve from a new point of view. 24th February will see the showing of Tent City (1980), the only documentary by pioneering Cuban film-maker, Miñuca Villaverde, followed by a discussion with the director, her husband and collaborator the writer and director Fernando Villaverde, and the programmer José Luis Aparicio. The programme is part of the partnership for documentary film heritage started up by Punto de Vista last year together with the Cinéma du Réel festival (Paris), and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, which has just restored Tent City together with the rest of Miñuca Villaverde's work. The closing screening (Sepio, Frans van de Staak, 1996) will round off the cycle to be devoted by this year's festival, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Eye Filmmuseum, to this Dutch film-maker, the first of its kind outside his country of origin.
This year once again, the Official Selection reflects the rich diversity of global film with entries from all over the world. The selection - made from nearly 900 films entered - comes from a total of thirteen countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, the Lebanon, Palestine, South Korea, Spain and Tunisia. Another highlight is the large number of premieres. All films are to be premiered in some way, including four world premieres, one European premiere, seven Spanish premieres and one premiere in Navarre.
The films in the competitive Official Selection of Punto de Vista will be competing for the prizes awarded by the International Jury (to be announced shortly), the Youth Jury and the festival audience itself at the closing gala, to be held on Saturday 1st March at Baluarte. Among these are the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for best film, worth 10,000 euros, the Jean Vigo prize for best director, worth 5,000 euros, the prize for best short film, worth 3,000 euros under the auspices of EITB, the special audience prize, worth 1,650 euros, and the youth prize, with the support of the Navarre Youth Institute and worth 1,500 euros. Also, the International Jury may award up to two special commendations, with no prize money. Punto de Vista is taking applications to form part of the Youth Jury until 31st January on its website.
Anna Brufau, Frédérique Monblanc, Lucía Salas and Pablo García Canga, together with Manuel Asín (artistic director of Punto de Vista) make up the programming committee responsible for choosing the films to appear in the Official Selection.
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Punto de Vista Official Selection 2025:
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A South-facing House in Gyeonggi Province [경기도의 어느 남향 집], Jin-Yong Park. South Korea. 2024. 71 min. International première
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A Stone’s Throw [على مرمى حجر], Razan AlSalah. Palestine, Lebanon, Canada. 2024. 40 min. Spanish première
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A., Ramon Balcells. Spain. 2025. 10 min. World première
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Bamssi, Mourad Ben Amor. Belgium, Tunisia 2024. 26 min. Spanish première
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Cambium, Maddi Barber & Marina Lameiro. Spain. 2024. 44 min. Navarre première
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Cuadro negro, Jose Luis Sepúlveda & Carolina Adriazola. Chile. 2025. 126 min. World première
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El viento que golpea mi ventana, Emilio Hupe. Spain. 2025. 26 min. World première
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Fuck You! El último show, José Luis García. Argentina. 2024. 81 min. Spanish première
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If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up, Declan Clarke. Ireland. 2024. 116 min. Spanish première
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Imágenes para Nina y el árbol, Ana Comes. Argentina. 2023. 8 min. European première
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La balandra, Matías Lima. Argentina. 2024. 13 min. International première
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La limace et l’escargot, Anne Benhaïem. France. 2024. 57 min. International première
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La prunelle rouge, Louapre Pierre. France. 2024. 57 min. International première
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Materialsammlung, David Gómez. Germany, Colombia. 2024. 52 min. Spanish première
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Portales, Elena Duque. Spain. 2025. 15 min. Spanish première
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Una temporada en la Frontera, Ileana Dell'Unti. Argentina. 2024. 142 min. Spanish première
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Writing poems at the end of the world, Wonwoo Kim. South Korea. 2024. 30 min. World première
The image of Punto de Vista 2025: an eclipse reinterpreted by Magdalena Orellana
Artist and film-maker Magdalena Orellana has created a series of collages around the theme of movement and the sun that, like a film, brings us together, unites us and intrigues us. The picture is based on three photographs of a solar eclipse in Pamplona, taken in 1900 and 1901, which Orellana herself found while seeking visual points of reference for this project. The roles are not fixed, so that each design has the spirit of something that is ephemeral and unrepeatable; they are unique in each of their different versions. This idea for the Punto de Vista 2025 posters sees the festival as a meeting place: a place in which different communities orbit, all of them imbued with the experience of attending a film screening. Magdalena Orellana (b. Buenos Aires, 1990) is an Argentinian film-maker and designer based in Madrid who trained at the Design faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, ECAM and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, where she filmed Todo esto es aún más intenso si a esa hora tardía se visita a un amigo para ver cómo le va, a short film premiered at ZINEBI. Her work has been shown at institutions including the Círculo de Bellas Artes, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, Cineteca Madrid and Tabakalera, among others. In 2022, Magdalena was one of the film-makers invited by Punto Vista to take part in X Films.
The programme announced so far: In Focus, Lan, X Films and the Mediation Programme
In early December Punto de Vista announced a first taste of its programme. Tickets will be going on sale to the general public in mid-February and applications for professional and student passes can now be made on the festival website.
In Focus will be charting retrospective paths through the work of Dutch film-maker Frans Van de Staak (1943-2001) and French film-maker Anne-marie Faux, as well as a new piece in the series devoted by programmer and film-maker Miriam Martín to the natural environment over the last four years, in this case entitled Adiós a los animales. The opening session of the festival is provided by Lan, with a screening of the recent digitalisation by Filmoteca de Catalunya of the work by Miñuca Villaverde Tent City; Termitas, with an overview of the emerging Spanish scene; and two talks about alternative practices using generative artificial intelligence applied to documentary film. In turn, X Films, in collaboration with Centro Huarte, is to invite film-maker and visual creator Pablo Casanueva for an artistic residency in order to pursue a documentary essay project to be shot in Navarre in 2025. On the other hand, the festival will be screening the world premiere of the X Films 2024 project by Celia Viada Caso, Volver a casa tan tarde.
Finally, Punto de Vista will once again be opening up to a young audience in Pamplona with its Mediation Programme, running two workshops for children, a new edition of Young Programmers (free applications open until 31st January on the website), a film session for families and another for upper secondary students at the Filmoteca de Navarra.
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