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12/26/2012
Eleven feature films and six short films from eleven different countries will make the Official Selection at the Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista, to be held in Pamplona from 19 to 24 February 2013. The Festival is organised by INAAC Foundation for the Government of Navarra.
Eleven feature films and six short films from eleven different countries will make the Official Selection at the Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista, to be held in Pamplona from 19 to 24 February 2013. The Festival is organised by INAAC Foundation for the Government of Navarra.
After watching 1441 documentary films (782 entered this year and 659 last year, when the Festival finally did not take place), the Selection Committee chose the titles below to be in competition at the Festival.
Feature films:
El modelo. Germán Scelso. Spain, 2012. 45’
Gui aiueo:s. Go Shibata. Japan, 2011. 56’
Un mito antropologico televisivo. Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli, Alessandro Gagliardo. Italy, 2011. 56’
The Island of St. Matthew. Kevin J. Everson. USA, 2012. 69’
All’ombra della croce. Alessandro Pugno. Italy-Spain, 2012. 73’
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images. Eric Baudelaire. France, 2011. 66’
El jurado. Virginia García del Pino. Spain, 2012. 64’
Apuda de Shouhou (Apuda). He Yuan. China, 2012. 145’
Alam laysa lana (A World Not Ours). Mahdi Fleifel. England-Lebanon-Denmark, 2012. 93’
Vers Madrid (The Burning Bright!). Sylvain George. France, 2012. 120’
Museum Hours. Jem Cohen. Austria-USA, 106’
Short films:
Sniegs (Snow Crazy). Laila Pakalnina. Latvia, 2012. 34’
Toma dos. Pilar Álvarez. Cuba, 2012. 11’
Dad’s Stick. John Smith. UK, 2012. 6’
The Florestine Collection. Paul Gailiunas, Helen Hill. USA, 2011. 31’
Hoof, Tooth & Claw. Adam Gutch. UK, 2011. 17’
Handful of Dust. Hope Tucker. USA, 2012. 7’
The selected films will be candidates to win the Punto de Vista Grand Award for Best Film (€10,000), the Jean Vigo Award for Best Director (€5,500) and the Award for Best Short Film (€3,500). In addition, there will be a People’s Choice Award (€2,500) and two optional Honourable Mentions, granted by the Jury (€1,250 each).
The members of the 8th Punto de Vista Jury are Christian von Borries (filmmaker and musician, Germany), Bill Brown (filmmaker, USA), José Luis Cienfuegos (Director of the Seville Film Festival), J.P. Sniadecki (filmmaker, winner of the 7th Punto de Vista Grand Award, USA) and Ana Isabel Strindberg (film programmer, Portugal).
As to the Selection Committee, its members were Josetxo Cerdán (Punto de Vista Artistic Director), Gonzalo de Pedro (Punto de Vista Programming Coordinator), Miguel Fernández Labayen (faculty, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Elena Oroz (documentary film journalist) and Maite Bermúdez (filmmaker).
