The Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival will be held in Pamplona from 24 February-1 March. Promoted by the Government of Navarre and organised by the public company NICDO, the programme for the 19th edition has now been finalised with the announcement that artist Iñaki Garmendia will be the protagonist of the Contacts section, where cinema is combined with other disciplines.

The opening and closing sessions will also be dedicated to two historical works that were underappreciated at the time, which the event now revisits from a fresh perspective: Tent City (1980), the only documentary by pioneering Cuban filmmaker Miñuca Villaverde, will open the festival; the closing film will be Sepio, by Frans van de Staak (1996), bringing the festival’s cycle dedicated to the Dutch filmmaker this year to a close, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Eye Filmmuseum, the first of his works to be shown outside his home country.

The films in the official competitive section of Punto de Vista 2025 are the following feature films: If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up, directed by Declan Clarke (Ireland); A South-facing House in Gyeonggi Province, by Jin-Yong Park (South Korea); the new work by Chilean directors José Luis Sepúlveda and Carolina Adriazola Cuadro negro, which will have its world premiere in Pamplona; and the Argentinean Fuck You! El último show by José Luis García, and Una temporada en la Frontera by Ileana Dell'Unti.

Also included in this section are the medium-length films A Stone's Throw by Razan AlSalah (Palestine/Lebanon/Canada); Cambium by Maddi Barber and Marina Lameiro, following its appearance at international festivals such as Visions du Réel and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; the French films La limace et l'escargot by Anne Benhaïem; and La prunelle rouge by Louapre Pierre; plus Materialsammlung by David Gómez (Germany/Colombia).

These are completed by the short films A., directed by Spaniard Ramon Balcells; Bamssi by Mourad Ben Amor (Belgium/Tunisia); El viento que golpea mi ventana by Spaniard Emilio Hupe; Imágenes para Nina y el árbol by Ana Comes (Argentina); La balandra by Matías Lima (also from Argentina); Writing poems at the end of the world by Wonwoo Kim (South Korea); and Portales by Spanish filmmaker Elena Duque, who is also featured at the 2025 Berlinale.

In Focus will present retrospectives of the work of the aforementioned Dutch filmmaker Frans Van de Staak and French filmmaker Anne-Marie Faux, as well as a new instalment in the series that programmer and filmmaker Miriam Martín has been dedicating to the natural environment over the past four years, which this time will be titled Goodbye to animals. Finally, X Films will invite filmmaker and visual artist Pablo Casanueva to an artist residency to develop a documentary essay project, which will be filmed in Navarra in 2025. And this edition will also feature the world premiere of the X Films 2024 project, directed by Celia Viada Caso: Volver a casa tan tarde (see the article).