The San Sebastian Festival will provide for the seventh consecutive year the Puxika Gorria playroom with a view to fostering work-life balance of accredited guests

Yet another year, the San Sebastian Festival, the San Telmo Museum,  ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the Red Balloon Alliance association and CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media), in collaboration with Grupo Kids and Party Multiespacios de Ocio Educativo, bring Puxika Gorria, the playroom service offering creative activities running throughout the event, from September 19 to 26.

The Punto de Vista festival announces its Official Selection, made up of seventeen films from thirteen countries, as well as its opening and closing sessions.

The opening and closing of the festival will feature Tent City by Miñuca Villaverde and Sepio by Frans van de Staak, respectively

This year nearly 900 films were entered, among them the ten features and seven shorts that will eventually take away the festival prizes

The Official Selection of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre, to be held in Pamplona from February 24th to March 1st, was announced today. The event, promoted by the government of Navarre and organised by the public company NICDO, presented its nineteenth edition by announcing the seventeen films that are to make up one of its most celebrated sections. In total, ten feature-length films and seven shorts will be competing for the festival prizes.

Highlights of the Official Selection include the world premiere of the new feature-length film by Chilean film-makers José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola (Cuadro negro), landmark figures in contemporary cinema, as well as the world premieres of two films by young Spanish directors (El viento que golpea mi ventana, by Emilio Hupe, and A., by Ramon Balcells) together with the South Korean short Writing Poems at the End of the World, by Wonwoo Kim. Mention must also be made of the premiere in Navarre of the latest film by Maddi Barber and Marina Lameiro, Cambium, which arrives in our region after visiting major international festivals including Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.

The opening and closing sessions will be devoted to two historic works that were underrated at the time but which the festival wishes to retrieve from a new point of view. 24th February will see the showing of Tent City (1980), the only documentary by pioneering Cuban film-maker, Miñuca Villaverde, followed by a discussion with the director, her husband and collaborator the writer and director Fernando Villaverde, and the programmer José Luis Aparicio. The programme is part of the partnership for documentary film heritage started up by Punto de Vista last year together with the Cinéma du Réel festival (Paris), and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, which has just restored Tent City together with the rest of Miñuca Villaverde's work. The closing screening (Sepio, Frans van de Staak, 1996) will round off the cycle to be devoted by this year's festival, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Eye Filmmuseum, to this Dutch film-maker, the first of its kind outside his country of origin.

This year once again, the Official Selection reflects the rich diversity of global film with entries from all over the world. The selection - made from nearly 900 films entered - comes from a total of thirteen countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, the Lebanon, Palestine, South Korea, Spain and Tunisia. Another highlight is the large number of premieres. All films are to be premiered in some way, including four world premieres, one European premiere, seven Spanish premieres and one premiere in Navarre.

The forthcoming edition of the festival is to feature two workshops for children, a new edition of Young Programmers, a film session for families and another for upper secondary students at the Filmoteca de Navarra

This year it is to feature two workshops for children from 6 to 9 years old at Civivox Iturrama and Civivox Mendillorri, which will work with the film archive to create a stop-motion film; the regular film session for families, held in Baluarte on the morning of Saturday 1st March; and a session for schools featuring Knit's Island, a documentary set within a video game, accompanied by a discussion with video game creators. Once again, a new edition of Young Programmers Moving Cinema x Punto de Vista is to be organised, aimed at young people from 16 to 20 years old, to learn how to programme a film festival. The group will present the films they select on 28th February at Civivox Condestable as part of the festival. This is organised in partnership with the Civivox network and the Navarre Youth Institute.

Moreover, the festival has opened the period for entries for the Youth Jury. A group of about twenty people aged from 18 to 25 will select, from all the films in the Official Selection, the Youth Prize for Best Film. Youth Card, through its European programme, will help two of its subscribers from anywhere in Europe to attend as part of the Youth Jury, as well as cooperating with passes and tickets for its card holders.

PUNTO DE VISTA 2025 MEDIATION PROGRAMME

1. WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN AGED FROM 6 TO 12 AT CIVIVOX | THE ARCHIVE COMES ALIVE!

At this workshop, the Drac Màgic cooperative will use the film archive to create a piece together with two groups of children between 6 and 9 years old. We have been living, feeling and experimenting with film for 130 years. Over all this time, moving pictures have been accumulating, but stills, posters, programmes and leaflets also form part of its legacy. So the idea is to take some of these static archive materials and put them in movement. Using the frame-by-frame technique and a multitude of visual ideas, the group will work together to assemble a fun, special new film universe, exploring the possibilities of animating the inanimate.

Practical information:

Friday 28th February from 5.30 to 7.30pm at Civivox Iturrama, and Saturday 1st March from 11 am to 1pm at Civivox Mendillorri. Aimed at children from 6 to 9 years old. Price: 2 euros. Enrolment from 10th to 15th January though the channels of the Civivox network.

2. FILM SESSION FOR FAMILIES (FROM 6 YEARS OLD)

This year once again, Punto de Vista is to organise a film session to enjoy with the family on the last morning of the festival. Several short films will be used to invite children aged 5 and over to live an exciting, fun audiovisual experience, to show that another kind of cinema is possible.

Practical information:

Saturday 1st March at 12 midday, at Baluarte. Tickets on sale from mid-February at Read more

Kumjana Novakova’s Silence of Reason wins the Grand Prize for Best Film

The international jury of the eighteenth Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, made up of Ruth Somalo, Jorge Villacorta and Ainara Elgoibar, after watching the entries in the Official Section has decided to award the following prizes:

Official prizes The Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, worth 10,000 euros, goes to Silence of Reason by Kumjana Novakova. The Jean Vigo prize for Best Director, worth 5,000 euros, goes to Ôte-toi de mon soleil by Messaline Raverdy. The prize for Best Short, worth 3,000 euros, goes to Avalancha by Daniel Cortés Ramírez.   Read more THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1090 THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1090 Rick W / Saturday, February 3, 2024 0 522   THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON Weekly newsletter N°1089/ 1088 Documenting the festivals experience since 1995, reaching over 166 000 subscribers.   FOLLOW US :           With other 11 000 festivals worldwide which we cover: no wonder we have reached the '1000' mark for our newsletters count. We proudly share our knowledge of the circuit with our community and really hope our audience ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE. In case you missed any of these 1000+ newsletters ... you ll find them all here.   > ROTTERDAM IN FOCUS January 19 -27  Winners of the IFFR 2024 Tiger Award and VPRO Big Screen Award announced. Rei and The Old Bachelor take top IFFR 2024 awards International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announces the 2024 winners from its two feature competitions: the Tiger Competition and the Big Screen Competition. The prizes were handed out during the IFFR Awards Ceremony on Friday 2 February, along with the FIPRESCI, NETPAC and Youth Jury awards.          ...     IFFR Pro winners announced at CineMart 2024   Seven awards handed out durin Read more The Punto de Vista Official Selection features twenty-threefilms from fifteen different countries. Rick W / Saturday, February 3, 2024 0 372 Zinzindurrunkarratz by Oskar Alegria will be opening this year's festival, and De caballos y guitarras by Pedro G. Romero is to close it, both films in the Official Selection though not competing     This year around 800 films were entered, from which the twelve features and eight shorts competing for the festival prizes were selected     The eighteenth edition of Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre, to take place in Pamplona from 11th to 16th March. This event, promoted by the government of Navarre and organised by the public company NICDO, has announced its Official Selection, to be made up of a total of twenty-three films: twelve feature-length films and eight shorts which will be competing for the prizes at the festival, plus three films outside the competition. The highlights of the competitive Official Selection include the world première of the new feature by the Argentinean Mario Llinás (Retrato de Mondongo), the latest film from the great Indian documentary maestro Anand Patwardhan (Vasudhaiva kutumbakam / The World is Family) and the feature La rivière, by the recent winner of the Prix Jean Vigo, Dominique Marchais. Also Šutnja razuma / Silence of Reason, by the young Macedonian film maker Kumjana Novakova, a winner at IDFA and Sarajevo, a new short by the Peruvian Yaela Gottlieb — back at the festival after featuring in 2022 — entitled ¿Dónde está Mary Anne?, and the feature by French-Lebanese film maker Maya Abdul-Malak Un cœur perdu et autres rêves de Beyrouth. Among Read more