Punto de Vista reinforces its international reach with nearly 90 films on its twentieth anniversary

04/13/2026

Today saw the launch of a new edition of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre. The event returns to Pamplona from 20th to 25th April, celebrating its twentieth anniversary and cementing its position as one of the essential dates in documentary film today, both nationally and internationally.

Over six days, Punto de Vista will be bringing together a programme featuring about 90 films and a total of 66 sessions and other activities, including screenings, encounters, discussion spaces and events open to a range of audiences. Thus, the event once again places Navarre as a key place for creativity, thought and exchange in the field of documentary film.

Punto de Vista is a proposition aimed at both the general public and the professional and academic spheres. This year it has taken a further step to reach the largest audiences in Pamplona and Navarre, with a mediation plan including a range of initiatives including a publicity action that will be dotted around shop windows all over the city, taking part in local podcasts like La Bobina, pathways across the programme, creating a passport to a programming route aimed at young people and efforts to approach to compatible organisations and student networks.

Tickets are available now through the festival website and at the Baluarte box office, and there will also be an additional ticket office in the hall of the venue. The price of standard tickets is held at 3 euros per session, plus several activities with free entrance.

 

Key figures at Punto de Vista 2026

— During the festival there will be 66 sessions, including screenings and other related activities.

— A programme divided into 6 broad sections —the Official Selection, In Focus, Lan, Ricercata, X Films and Txinparta—, made up of around 90 films.

— 6 artistic directors have now marked the history of Punto de Vista, with Miquel Martí Freixas starting out this year, taking over from Manuel Asín (2022-2025), Garbiñe Ortega (2018-2021), Oskar Alegria (2014-2017), Josetxo Cerdán (2010-2013) and Carlos Muguiro (2005-2009).

— The Official Selection will be made up of 19 films —seven feature-length films, one mid-length one and eleven shorts— from the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa. Four world premières, one international première and fourteen Spanish premières will be competing for the top accolades.

— This year once again, the festival features 6 pathways across the programme, to allow audiences to explore it through different themed threads: Earth, Our Bodies, The Planet We Live On, (Im)passable Frontiers, Traces of Life and Come Along to Punto de Vista, as well as a specific pathway for students.

— Around 110 guests will be visiting Pamplona to take part in the programme.

— Over 150 people have signed up for the initiatives aimed at young people, of whom 14 members have been selected for the Youth Jury and 6 for Young Programmers.

— 9 venues will be hosting the festival: Baluarte, Cines Golem, Museo Universidad de Navarra, UPNA, Filmoteca de Navarra, Museo Oteiza, Civivox Condestable, Civivox Pompelo and Civivox Mendillorri, joined by Txintxarri, Tarántula and Laba for the music programme.

— Music returns to Punto de Vista with a specific programme featuring 8 activities including concerts, DJ sessions and Radio 3 programmes with live performances. Anavi, Celia Carrera, Adrian Alegria, Love’n’Joy, Masquepop, Bernal, Comic Sans, Hondora and Annie Wonder are among the artists who will be taking part.

 

Pamplona, a strategic meeting place for the documentary sector

For its twentieth anniversary, Punto de Vista is reinforcing its role as a strategic space for networking between documentary film professionals. Over the years, the festival has cemented its position through intensive work aimed at forging relations between film-makers, institutions, industry figures and international platforms, placing exchange and partnership at the centre of its model.

Apart from its programme, the festival acts as a facilitator of professional connections, showcasing local talent and generating development opportunities in a field, that of experimental documentary film, in which it is particularly hard for work to achieve visibility and circulation, Throughout the week, Navarre will be an exceptional place for film-makers and professionals to access key interlocutors on the international scene, encouraging direct dialogue, the spotting of opportunities and the projection of projects on circuits that are hard to break into outside this context.

The festival recently earned accreditation by FIAPF, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, a seal of quality certifying its relevance and making it part of a small group of festivals in Spain. Also, after taking part as a guest last year in Doc Alliance, in 2026 it is joining the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE), strengthening its ties with contemporary European documentary film-making and playing a part in forums for debate and development at international level. Nationally, it plays an active part in platforms like Pantalla and La Mesta, helping to structure the sector and strengthening networks between festivals.

The festival's commitment to professional development this year also takes the form of a considerable international representation of programmers, festivals and institutions who will be visiting Pamplona thanks to the support of Acción Cultural Española and the SGAE foundation.

 

The headers: Visual identity generated by code

This year's headers —created by Martin Etxauri Sainz de Murieta, also known as Txo!?—are generated by computer code, creative code. On the basis of an algorithm devised by the author, sound and image are generated in parallel out of the same data. Different audiovisual components are interwoven to generate these 20 pieces, which share some elements but never repeat the same visual structure or musical pattern, even though they are the result of running the same code.

 

A responsible festival: accessibility, sustainability, equality and leisure free from sexist violence

This year, Punto de Vista reinforces its commitment to accessibility through measures including providing magnetic loops, vibrating backpacks, subtitling in most sessions, sign language interpreting in special sessions and spaces adapted to people with disabilities.

In the environmental sphere, the festival is pursuing its sustainability strategy with measures such as reducing materials, fostering sustainable transport and prioritising local suppliers. New this year is the Mrs. Greenfilm seal, involving an externally-audited plan.

The event also maintains its commitment to gender equality and being family-friendly, with schemes like the Red Balloon and the creation of safe spaces, in line with the city programme for leisure free from sexist violence.

 

Partner organisations

Punto de Vista continues to expand its broad, diverse network of partner bodies, which make a decisive contribution to raising its visibility both nationally and internationally. At this year's edition —promoted by the government of Navarre and organised by the public company NICDO— the event is partnering with institutions and bodies including ICAA, Acción Cultural Española, the SGAE foundation, Pamplona city council, Centro Huarte, the University of Navarre, UPNA, EiTB, The Navarre Youth Institute, Carné Joven, Filmoteca de Navarra, Filmoteca Valenciana, Filmoteca de Galicia, Cineteca Madrid, Navarra Music Commission, CIMA, Courtisane Festival, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Golem, the Jorge Oteiza museum foundation, the Pamplona Old Town traders' association, Radio 3, Docs & Talks and the Festival Scope platform.

Also, the festival continues to back the creation and strengthening of professional networks by organising initiatives, meetings and work spaces run in partnership with key players in the sector such as Navarra Film Industry, NAPAR, Doklab Navarra, CIMA and (H)emen.