Nayra Sanz Fuentes, new Punto de Vista X Films film-maker

03/11/2026

Punto de Vista is once again organising the X Films project, one of its most distinctive propositions, through which the festival itself acts as producer of a film. Since 2010, every year a documentary essay project is chosen. It must be shot in Navarre, so contributing to the development and reinforcement of audiovisual creativity in the region. This year it is also reinforced by a group of partner organisations who will be supporting the project.

 

X Films 2026 guest film-maker: Nayra Sanz Fuentes

Since 2024, Punto de Vista has proposed a model of direct commissioning of a film. This year Nayra Sanz Fuentes has been invited to work on a project to be shot during 2026, and premiered at the 21st edition of the festival. The project takes the wound as its starting point to consider the body as a space for inscribing tradition, risk and collective belonging.

This year once again, in partnership with Centro Huarte, the film-maker has been offered an artistic residency to allow her to pursue her research and forge a deeper relationship with the community. During Punto de Vista, Sanz will have a screening of her previous films, and is to give a talk entitled Filming as a Form of Knowledge, in which she will present the result of her research during the residency.

Nayra Sanz Fuentes is a film-maker, writer and independent producer. With a critical, poetic vision, her work explores the boundaries between the visible and the hidden, the individual and power structures. Trained in Spanish Philology, Philosophy and Film Directing, her body of work moves between fiction, documentary and film essay. Her films explore the close relationship between the human being, nature and technology. Founder of the production company Rinoceronte Films, she combines her creative work with teaching and cultural programming. He has just published the essay The Nazi Body. The Contained Body (The Aesthetics of Power in Leni Riefenstahl) with the publisher Trotta.

 

X Films 2025 project: Gaulana

"Light pollution is growing with capitalism. As the world is lit up for security, the darkness protects those who are fleeing. Gaulana portrays those who crossed and still cross the river Muga at night: escaped prisoners from Ezkaba, Portguese and other migrants coming from the Bidasoa, seeking refuge in the dark."

The film being premiered this year at Punto de Vista will be Gaulana (Spain, 2026) by Pablo Casanueva (b. Ribeseya, Asturias, 1995), a film-maker and visual artist, a graduate in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Burgos, as well as taking part in a SICUE exchange at the UPV/EHU in Bilbao. His work explores the relations between memory, territory and politics through film, archives and landscape. He has directed feature-length and short films which have been selected for festivals in Spain and abroad, as well as exhibiting photographic and audiovisual work. He has taken part in residencies and training programmes at EICTV in Cuba, Centro Huarte, LABoral, FICX Pro and La Plantación.

 

New partnerships around X Films

Punto de Vista continues to expand its network of partnerships. In the case of X Films, as of 2026 several companies in the film industry will be giving their support to the project through advice on production, the loan of technical staff, special conditions for editing, advice on copyright and musical supervision for making X Films projects. 

These include the independent film distribution agency Freak, the film and visual art school Pixelian, the editing and digital effects company Antaviana, the association for the defence of intangibles Intangia and the creative music agency Konga Music. All these partnerships will help to boost the solidity and professionalism of the resulting films thanks to a whole network of support resources, as well as extending the reach of the projects.

 

X Films, backing emerging talent

Thus, X Films continues to cement its position as a backer of talent: since it was set up in 2010, the group of people who have taken part in the project have proved to be a great sample of Spanish independent film over this period, people who after passing through the festival have gone on to make prolific careers. People like Fernando Franco, Diana Toucedo, Oskar Alegria, Lois Patiño and Jaione Camborda, among many others, have taken part in this scheme and then become leading figures in the genre, in many cases straddling fiction and non-fiction work in their careers.

So far, X Films has featured fifteen productions shot in Navarre that have achieved success at festivals in Spain and elsewhere, where they have won numerous awards. It involves a multi-faceted view of the region through the vision of creative talents like Jorge Tur, Xiana do Teixeiro, María Cañas, Maddi Barber, Irati Gorostidi, Velasco Broca and Celia Viada Caso. Further information on the festival website.