The Official Selection of the Punto de Vista festival features nineteen films produced in eighteen countries around the world

02/16/2026

This morning the Official Selection of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre, was announced. The festival will be celebrating its 20th anniversary from 20th to 25th April in Pamplona. A total of nineteen films will make up one of the most diverse programmes at the event. Specifically, there will be eight feature films and eleven shorts competing for the festival prizes.

Those selected include the most recent productions by film-makers and artists Carlos Casas, Gala Hernández López, Rocío Mesa, Adrián Canoura, Adrià Expòsit-Goy and Víctor Ladera, being shown for the first time in Spain. There will also be international titles by film-makers like Maryam Tafakory, Sarah Vanagt and Teresa Arredondo, as well as the joint film by Tania and Semillites Hernández, among others.

The Official Selection, chosen from nearly 900 films entered, features films produced in eighteen countries around the world, including Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Qatar, Greece, Iran, the United Kingdom, Chile, Italy, Austria, Belarus, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, France, Portugal and Belgium. A global bill in which every production is a première of some kind. Specifically, this will include four world premières, one European première and fourteen Spanish premières.

The films in the competitive Official Selection of Punto de Vista will be aspiring to one of the prizes awarded by the International Jury (to be announced shortly), the Youth Jury and the festival audience itself at the closing gala, to be held on Saturday 25th April at Baluarte. Among these are the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for best film, worth 10,000 euros, the Jean Vigo prize for best director, worth 5,000 euros, the prize for best short film, worth 3,000 euros under the auspices of EITB, the special audience prize, worth 1,650 euros, and the youth prize, with the support of the Navarre Youth Institute and worth 1,500 euros. Also, the International Jury may award up to two special commendations, with no prize money. Punto de Vista is taking applications to form part of the Youth Jury until 27th March on its website.

Inés Calero, Ekhiñe Etxeberria, Antonio Miguel Arenas and Margot Mecca, together with Miquel Martí Freixas—new artistic director of Punto de Vista as of this year— make up the programming committee responsible for choosing the films in the Official Selection.

 

Punto de Vista Official Selection 2026:

1. 3cm of Complexity, Anna Vasof. Austria, Greece. 2025. 21 min. Spanish première.

 

2. Cairo Streets, Abdellah Taïa. France. 2025. 19 min. Spanish première.

 

3. Coroa de Espinhos, Francisco Moura Relvas. Portugal. 2026. 19 min. World première.

 

4. Daria’s Night Flowers, Maryam Tafakory. Iran, United Kingdom, France. 2025. 16 min. Spanish première.

 

5. Desde la montaña vemos la montaña, Julián García Long. Belgium, Argentina. 2025. 32 min. Spanish première.

 

6. Esa otra selva blanca, Teresa Arredondo. Chile. 2025. 67 min. Spanish première.

 

7. Eurydice in the Underworld, Felicity Palma. Italy. 2025. 14 min. European première.

 

8. Fomos Ficando Sós, Adrián Canoura. Spain. 2025. 82 min. Spanish première.

 

9. I Lit The Fire!, Valeria Lemeshevskaya. Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan. 2025. 60 min. Spanish première.

 

10. Krakatoa, Carlos Casas. Spain, United Kingdom, France. 2026. 79 min. Spanish première.

 

11. like moths to light, Gala Hernández López. Spain, Italy, France. 2026. 27 min. Spanish première.

 

12. Masayume, Nao Yoshigai. Japan. 2026. 110 min. Spanish première.

 

13. Nuestro Cuerpo Es Una Estrella Que Se Expande, Tania Hernández Velasco & Semillites Hernández Velasco. Mexico. 2025. 84 min. Spanish première.

 

14. OAO, Rocío Mesa. Spain. 2026. 25 min. World première.

 

15. Perishable Idol, Majid Al-Remaihi. France, Qatar, Kuwait. 2024. 18 min. Spanish première.

 

16. Sin ton ni son, Víctor Ladera. Italy, Spain, Portugal. 2026. 30 min. World première.

 

17. Vegetare, Adrià Expòsit-Goy. Spain. 2026. 14 min. World première.

 

18. Waking Hours, Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini. Italy. 2025. 78 min. Spanish première.

 

19. Wishful Filming, Sarah Vanagt. Belgium. 2025. 36 min. Spanish première.

 

The most recent films by Alan Berliner and Sergio Oksman are to feature at the opening and closing of the festival

Punto de Vista kicks off on Monday 20th April with the screening of Benita, the latest film by Alan Berliner, an American film-maker who has been involved in the festival at different times in its history, of which he is now a part. This time round, Berliner constructs a posthumous portrait of film-maker Benita Raphan on the basis of her own writings, sounds and pictures, after the family of the author —to whom he was both mentor and friend— had suggested he complete an unfinished short film. Faced with the impossibility of taking this on, the film-maker opted to plunge into the vast personal archive Raphan left behind —notebooks, drawings, photographs, home movies and more than forty hard discs— to reflect, using his undisputed mastery of exploring memory and family links, on artistic creativity, pain, loneliness and the mystery of life. Berliner will also be taking part in other activities as part of Txinparta, the section devoted to younger audiences to be announced soon, in partnership with UNAV, the University of Navarre, MUN, the University of Navarre Museum.

The closing event, to take place on Saturday 25th April, will feature the new film by Sergio Oksman, Una película de miedo. A film that once again takes the Brazilian film-maker into the intimate, family territory that marks his work. After setting out on a journey towards the figure of his father in Brazil in O futebol (2015), Oksman now travels to Portugal to share holidays with his son Nuno in a shabby, almost deserted hotel, the ideal setting for the young man's dream: to shoot a chilling horror film. Among games, phantasms and references —also harking back to Una historia para los Modlin (2012)— the film-maker explores his family archives, his grandparents' memory, the experience of separation and uncertainty about the future, as father and son recreate, in the present, the language of horror films. The result is an ingenious cinematic construction that interweaves life stories with shared fictions, setting pages already written in memory against those yet to be written.

 

The 2026 image of Punto de Vista: twenty voices to represent twenty years

The image for the 20th anniversary of Punto de Vista was created by graphically translating the audio spectrograms of twenty voices and testimonies of filmmakers who have been part of the festival over the course of its twenty-year history, turning them into footprints, memories and presences. From this sound material, five images are generated that rotate and are articulated in five groups of four voices, establishing a visual system based on superimposition, rhythm and resonance. This piece is part of the research that Pr0t0c0lectiv0 has been conducting for years into sound, vibration and feedback phenomena. Like this, the image of the festival takes on an auditory dimension, shifting the focus from sight to sound and highlighting the importance of sound in cinema as a structural component of audiovisual language. In this way, the image offers a visual metaphor for the resonance of the festival itself: a space for exchange where voices converse, transform and amplify each other. The echoes of this run through both the arts scene and the community in Navarre, including its artists and stakeholders, to be projected outwards, consolidating Punto de Vista as a place for meeting, experimentation and international impact. 

Pr0t0c0lectiv0 is a Pamplona-based arts collective set up in 2018 whose main line of work is prototyping art. Its artistic practice explores different disciplines in installation, research and exhibition formats. 

 

First previews of the programme: In Focus and Ricercata

Punto de Vista recently gave a preview of its programme, presenting two of the sections into which the festival is organised this year: In Focus, retrospective series structured around film concepts or careers, and Ricercata, a new section devoted to exploring, experimenting with the language of film and its dialogue with other artistic practices.

The In Focus section of the festival features Amidst the Flies, about observational documentary, and Permanence of the Ephemeral, reflections on the proliferation of images in the social network era, as well as a focus on the Welsh film-maker of Indian descent Alia Syed. The latter will also be the subject of the annual Punto de Vista publication, edited this time by Inés Calero. For its part, Ricercata will feature programmes such as Forever Young: cinema in Relief, a journey through the history of experimental 3D cinema; Cinema in Common, a participatory project carried out in communities in Navarre; and Termites, devoted to works from the emerging national scene.