Miquel Martí Freixas will be the new artistic director of Punto de Vista for the 2026 – 2029 period

11/19/2025

Pamplona, 18th November. Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, today announces the sixth artistic director in its history. The event, set up in 2005 by the Government of Navarre and organised by NICDO, is one of the artistic programmes with the highest international visibility backed by the Department of Culture.

Since its inception it has been created with a dual structure: an executive director in overall charge of the project, a position held by Teresa Morales de Álava since 2018, and an artistic director who changes every four years. Therefore, Miquel Martí Freixas takes over leadership of the programming of the festival after Carlos Muguiro, Josetxo Cerdán, Oskar Alegría, Garbiñe Ortega and Manuel Asín.

According to the commission considering the candidates, Martí Freixas' proposal "is conceptually very well structured, based on a thorough analysis and knowledge of the festival's history, as well as a meaningful, bold vision for the future, with a view to reformulating or making new proposals to enrich the festival and build on the achievements of previous teams."

In the words of Miquel Martí Freixas, his project seeks to "explore today's fascinating cinematic languages, offering a varied map of paths, experiences and discoveries to carry Punto de Vista's valuable legacy into its next phase, inviting audiences to a thought-provoking, surprising and enjoyable festival."

Miquel Martí Freixas (b. Barcelona, 1978) is a film programmer, lecturer, cultural administrator and critic. A programmer at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and co-founder of La Inesperada film festival, he has also worked as a programmer at festivals and organisations such as DocumentaMadrid, Filmoteca de Catalunya, États généraux du film documentaire Lussas, ZINEBI, MajorDocs, Curtocircuito and Mostra Front, among others. He has sat on the jury at various festivals including RID Montreal, DocLisboa, Play-Doc Tui and the Malaga Film Festival. He helped to found the Zumzeig Cinema cooperative, as well as producing different cycles for this film venue. He has taught at ESCAC and at different universities, master's programmes and film schools (UAB, Tecnocampus, UPF); in the field of criticism, he was joint founder and editor of the journal specialising in non-fiction Blogs&Docs (2006 - 2013).

Along with the new artistic director, today the new Selection Committee, made up of three women and one man, will also be presented. Inés Calero, Ekhiñe Etxeberria, Antonio Miguel Arenas and Margot Mecca, four professionals with a range of experience and backgrounds in programming, criticism, research and creation, will work alongside Miquel Martí Freixas to select the films that will make up the festival's Official Selection for the period 2026-2029.

The team will work together with the executive director to prepare the next edition of Punto de Vista, which will be held from 20 to 25 April and will commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the festival's creation.

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INÉS CALERO

Her interests centre on the hybridisation of narratives, self-fiction and the filmographies of the self. After graduating in journalism from the UV, she did the master's degree in documentary and cross-media reporting (UC3M) before specialising in film curating at Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola. Together with Laura García she started Docs&Talks, a podcast discussing non-fiction film. 

She has also worked with Dirdira Lab (2022-2023) and RAW:Arché →Work 2024. She has worked at the San Sebastián International Film Festival (SSIFF), Dock of the Bay and Animalcoi. She has also helped to programme at Tabakalera and Azkuna Zentroa. She is currently producing ‘Una thermomix en el desierto’, the debut piece by Marta Guillén.

 

EKHIÑE ETXEBERRIA

Ekhiñe Etxeberria Garjón is a programmer, film-maker and curator based in Navarre. She studied film-making, specialising in documentary, at the Escola de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC), and audiovisual curating at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Her curating practice focuses on cultural mediation, collective memory and the dialogue between territory, gender and film, from a situated, critical perspective. She currently combines her work as training coordinator at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte with her curating work.

 

ANTONIO MIGUEL ARENAS

Film-maker. He was one of the creators of Revista Magnolia, an online publication devoted to film criticism and analysis. He was part of the Punto de Vista press office in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 he did the postgraduate course in Curating at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián. Since 2021, he has been the artistic director of the Granada Young Film-makers Festival, with which he has been associated for a decade. He directed the short film Topo estrellado (2023), curated by the Centro José Guerrero in Granada. He is currently coordinator of La Distribuidora de la ECAM, where he teaches.

 

MARGOT MECCA

An Italian programmer, producer and researcher based in Barcelona. With a doctorate from the UAB, from 2019 to 2023 she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Communication department at the UPF. Since 2011 she has been part of the Festival dei Popoli team, where she heads the industry platform and is a member of the selection committee. She has played a part in programming and professional activities at different festivals (FIDMarseille, Visions du Réel, Majordocs, +RAINFilm Festival, La Inesperada). Her film work as a producer includes the feature films Mother Lode (2021) and Monte Tropic (2023), and the short Le prime volte (2025).