To mark the tenth anniversary of Punto de Vista, this year’s themed retrospective, under the name of Ten Years Older will be dedicated to Time, to the relationship and interplay between documentary film and one of its key concepts and raw materials: Time. Paying tribute to the legendary film, Ten Minutes Older, by Herz Frank, an old friend who was present at the festival, this cycle proposes an extensive journey through more than 50 non-fiction works that share the significant presence of time.

Two of the cinematographic figures in the spotlight of this 10th edition of Punto de Vista, Jean-Daniel Pollet and Antonio Maenza, have had two new film biographies made of them recently, which will receive their world premiere at the Festival in 2016: Jean-Daniel, parle moi encore!, by the French director Jean-Paul Fargier, and Cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico, by Valencian filmmaker Carles Candela. Both filmmakers will visit Pamplona to present their filmic tributes.

For the second year running, the Spanish Radio 3 programme El Séptimo Vicio will be setting up shop in Pamplona for the duration of the Festival, taking place between 8th and 14th February, to provide detailed daily coverage of this tenth edition. It is the only programme on Radio 3 dedicated specifically to cinema and especially to auteur film, a genre that encompasses the Punto de Vista programming.

The great French filmmaker Agnès Varda is the latest name to take part in the project entitled 223 words, a collective film that represents the Punto de Vista festival’s response to the sentence handed down to Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi, six years imprisonment and 223 lashes, as a punishment for his latest film, Writing on the city, the world premiere of which will take place at the tenth edition of the film festival in Navarre. The documentary made by Keywan Karimi is an essay on the history and use made of graffiti and political murals as a means of expression and freedom in the city of Teheran.

The presence of Time in the cinema is the focus of the latest book in the Punto de Vista collection, a volume entitled TIME, which includes a series of essays written and prepared to mark the tenth anniversary of this film festival in Navarre. Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Georges Didi-Huberman have also contributed essays, along with John Berger and Víctor Erice, with texts that examine dialogue, dance, and the battle cinema has been waging right from the start with one of its primordial elements, and which the festival is dedicated to this year: Time.