Punto de Vista 2025 Winners

03/01/2025

The international jury of the nineteenth Punto de Vista, International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, made up of Cyril Neyrat, Boris Nelepo and Mònica Rovira, after watching the entries in the Official Section has decided to award the following prizes:

 

Official prizes

► The Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, worth 10,000 euros, goes to Cuadro Negro by José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola.

Jury statement:

Following a journalist with a small camera and a tripod, this film takes us on a satirical guerilla against all forms of power and domination: the ones that govern our societies, the ones that command the ways of making films. In the gap between the person and the character, between reality and representation, unsettling all roles and habits of thinking, facing the catastrophe with a ferocious sense of humour, the directors revive the immanent anarchy of cinema.

► The Jean Vigo prize for Best Director, worth 5,000 euros, goes to La limace et l’escargot by Anne Benhaïem.

Jury statement:

Two people bump into each other, get on their feet, start talking, drinking, living together. A woman meets with two friends. They start talking and a story of friendship and aging begins. 

► The prize for Best Short, worth 3,000 euros and sponsored by EITB, goes to Writing poems at the end of the world by Wonwoo Kim.

Jury statement:

It is a film which wanders from day to day in life collecting a vocabulary of sounds and images. The filmmaker finds in what’s happening to him and around the material to experiment with language and craft a sonnet every day. Filming as a ritual, the rhythm of dry petals jumping in a plastic can as an offering.

 

Special prizes

► The special audience prize for Best Film, worth 1,650 euros, goes to Cambium by Marina Lameiro and Maddi Barber.

► The Youth Prize for Best Film, worth 1,500 euros and with the collaboration of Instituto Navarro de la Juventud, goes to Cuadro Negro by José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola.

Youth Jury statement:

The film that has particularly activated the space for critical debate that Punto de Vista has given us is one that we highlight for its use of performativity and lies as devices in documentary film to rewrite the political, historical and cultural discourse of the institutions of power, and for all these reasons, the Punto de Vista Youth Jury Prize goes to Cuadro Negro.

 

Special commendations

► Special Jury Commendation for La prunelle rouge by Pierre Louapre.

Jury statement:

It is a film which explores neglected parts of our environments, spaces we pass by everyday but refuse to see. It is done in the most subjective way, driven by an inner necessity and vision which converts the lowest mundane elements into poetry. Poetry as a way of finding some kind of order in one’s disorder, building a film as a home when the houses are crumbling.

► Special Jury Commendation for A. by Ramón Balcells.

Jury statement:

Voices are heard in an empty flat. As the camera describes it, a past life comes around, contented between walls. We don’t see much, we don’t hear much. Through a minimal use of its means, almost whispering, cinema gives us the presence of what is not there anymore.