Guest festival: Punto de Vista

Punto de Vista 2025 is now closed for film submissions.

Opening call for the submission of film proposals for the Official Section usually opens around June. The Official Section of Punto de Vista welcomes the participation of documentary films of any nationality. Fiction, institutional and advertising films are not eligible, neither are documentaries that are strictly or purely journalistic in nature. There are no limitations with regard to the theme, duration and original language.

For more information visit the festival website.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Ten full-length films and seven short films that will be in the running for the awards at the festival: the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, the Jean Vigo Award for Best Director, the Award for Best Short Film, the Special Audience Award and the Youth Award. Four world premieres, four international premieres, one European premiere and seven Spanish premieres.

IN FOCUS: Three retrospective cycles: two single-artist programmes —Frans van de Staak. The World as Archipelago and Anne-marie Faux. The River Under the Tongue—, the first to be dedicated to their artists internationally and nationally, respectively, and Adiós a los animales, part four of the natural histories of documentary cinema curated and presented by Miriam Martín.

LAN: Screenings and talks on the production and creation processes in documentary filmmaking. Besides Termitas, which gives a voice to the most restless film-makers in the Spanish most immediate context, two events on dissident practices in the field of generative artificial intelligence and an Inaugural Programme dedicated to the documentary work of a pioneering film-maker from Cuban diaspora: Miñuca Villaverde.

CONTACTS: The documentary film beyond the boundaries of its discipline. In partnership with Pamplona City Council, we present a video installation by Iñaki Garmendia in Ciudadela, as well as a dialogue with the artist as part of the exhibition dedicated to him by the Oteiza Museum.

X FILMS: The film-maker invited to produce a new film for the festival, Pablo Casanueva (Ribeseya, 1995), presents the results from the residency he attended at the Centro Huarte to prepare the film that will premiere at Punto de Vista in 2026, as well as to show us a selection of his previous works. Including the premiere of the project developed in 2024: Volver a casa tan tarde, by Celia Viada Caso.

MEDIATION PROGRAMME: The younger generations take up the mantle. A workshop, a programme for families, the continuation of the Young Programmers programmes and a screening for secondary school children in Navarre.

Every year, Punto de Vista serves as a meeting place for audiovisual industry professionals at regional, national and international level, a place to get to know one another and share the latest trends in documentary film. The festival also offers a range of spaces for producers, film-makers, associations and festivals to discuss practices in the genre. Activities aimed at professionals like talks by film-makers, Doklab Navarra pitching sessions and round tables about topics like production, film-making, finance and distribution are all on the festival agenda. 

Punto de Vista’s curating role means that every year it attracts large numbers of film students from top universities and schools all over Spain. Thus, every year around 200 people apply for passes to take part in the festival, either as spectators or within one of the programmes specifically designed for them, such as the Young Programmers and Youth Jury schemes. 

Jóvenes Programadores (Young Programmers) Moving Cinema x Punto de Vista is a space for programming by young people aged sixteen to nineteen who select and present a special session of the festival devoted to short films. The Youth Jury consists of a group of about twenty people who, after watching all the films in the Official Selection, have the job of choosing the winner of the Youth Prize for Best Film, presented every year at the closing gala of the festival. The young people taking part in these get passes to enjoy the full Punto de Vista programme, and the organisers prepare an itinerary of recommendations and selected meetings with attendees, accredited visitors and guests at the festival. 

Finally, the mediation programme sets out to open up the event to young audiences in the city of Pamplona, with workshops for children, film sessions for families and others specifically for upper secondary students, at the Filmoteca de Navarra.