Cyril Neyrat, Boris Nelepo and Mònica Rovira make up the International Jury for the Official Selection at Punto de Vista

01/21/2025

Cyril Neyrat, artistic director of the FIDMarseille festival, Boris Nelepo, critic and programmer, and Mònica Rovira, film-maker and researcher, will make up the International Jury for the nineteenth Punto de Vista festival, taking place from 24th February to 1st March in Pamplona. It will be their job to select the winners of the three top prizes at the event: the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, worth 10,000 euros, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, worth 5,000 euros, and the Prize for Best Short Film, worth 3,000 euros and under the auspices of EITB. They may also award up to two special commendations, with no prize money. Together with these awards, the Official Selection will also include other accolades: the special audience prize for best film, worth 1,650 euros, and the youth prize for best film, with the support of the Navarre Youth Institute and worth 1,500 euros.

In early February tickets to the festival will go on sale to the general public through its website and at the Baluarte box office. The period for passes for professionals and film students remains open here.

 

Cyril Neyrat

Cyril Neyrat is the artistic director of FIDMarseille after having been a member of its selection committee for many years (between 2006 and 2009 and, again, ever since 2019). He has worked as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma and Vertigo. He has taught cinema at Paris 3, Paris 7 and HEAD-Geneva, and continues to lecture at several art and film schools. He occasionally collaborates writing and directing films. In addition to numerous articles and critical essays published in catalogs and collective works, he is the author of books based on long conversations with film-makers (Pedro Costa, Jean-Claude Rousseau, Albert Serra, Pierre Creton). He is also an associate editor of Éditions de l'œil (where, along with editor Luc Chessel, he has published Pedro Costa’s Matériaux, 2022). He was a resident at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) in 2009 and 2010. Between 2019 and 2023, he worked as a permanent staff member in a residential home for autistic adults.

 

Boris Nelepo

Boris Nelepo is a critic and film programmer based in Lisbon. He curated the retrospectives of artists like Želimir Žilnik, Peter von Bagh, John M. Stahl, Jacques Rivette, Marlen Khutsiev, Bela Tarr, Pierre Léon, Boris Frumin, Věra Chytilová, Raquel Chalfi, Karpo Godina, Ivan Cardoso, António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, Ulrike Ottinger, Paul Leduc, and Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio among others. Boris has written for a number of international publications including Trafic (France), MUBI (USA), Cinema Scope (Canada), Séance (Russia), and Cahiers du cinéma (France). He served on the official jury of Locarno film festival, Cinéma du Réel and FICUNAM. He worked as a consultant for the Locarno Film Festival (2012-2018) and Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and was an artistic director of Spirit of Fire International Festival of Film Debuts in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2017-2022). Since 2021, he is a member of Doclisboa’s selection committee.

 

Mónica Rovira

Film-maker and researcher. Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Master’s in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Directing Cinema Diploma from FAMU (Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague.

Through Ver a una mujer (2017), she investigates the materiality of the ineffable, the representation of desire and the human body as a place of dissidence. With inescapable drive, it plays with and pushes the boundaries of cinematographic language: through a desire to know and through the triangular relationship with the other and the camera. This places a focus on the vulnerability and ephemeral nature of the human body, as well as the spectral relationships that flow through and beyond the images. It engages with the writing of I in film, building a voice in transition that questions identitarian concepts.

She attends international academic seminars focused on gender and publishes in Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries Crossing Borders, Routledge Research (2021). She was part of the workshop entitled Being Where You Are When You’re There with Roni Horn and Isabel de Naverán, (Botín Centre, 2023). Together with Andrés Duque, she set up the Santa Mònica Cinema Laboratory (Barcelona), where she is part of Colectivo 1080, the resident audiovisual research group. She is currently developing a new film based on the research project named Them, the Water and Me, promoted by La Virreina (2024).