http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/indexEN.asp en-EN http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/images/logoEN.jpg http://www.puntodevistafestival.com 549 127 http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=280 Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Now that the Festival’s 8th edition has finished, figures about moviegoers reveal that Punto de Vista, now in the festival format again after the 2012 seminar, is back in shape. This year, the Festival’s activities and events drew 8,490 people, that is, over 2,000 more than in 2011 (6,106), 3,000 more than in 2010 (5,236) and 4,000 more than in 2009 (4,353). This means that the number of attendees doubled in five years.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=279 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 The chinese film Apuda, by He Yuan, has won the First Prize Punto de Vista for the best film, in the 2013 edition of Punto de Vista film festival. John Smith, author of Dad’s Stick, has been elected best director (Jean Vigo Prize). Toma Dos, by Pilar Alvarez (best short film) and A World not Ours, by Mahdi Fleifel (prize of the Public, are the other two films awarded. The Jury has also decided to give special mentions to the films The Florestine Collection, by Paul Gailiunas and Helen Hill, and El modelo, by Germán Scelso. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=278 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 This year, Punto de Vista will feature the presentation of three interesting projects for audiences and accredited guests.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=277 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Oskar Alegria, director of Emak Bakia baita/La casa Emak Bakia (screening on Wednesday 20), is presenting a very special exhibition. Opening tomorrow, this exhibition shows some of the objects found during the shooting of the film – items going from the screen to the display cabinet to create an additional space for the documentary.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=276 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Tomorrow, Tuesday the 19th, a new edition of Punto de Vista will start, Punto de Vista 8. Now, after being an International Seminar last year, it’s back to festival shape, with a programme that will help audiences wonder about and reflect on the world around them.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=275 Fri, 8 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 The 8th Punto de Vista Festival, being held in Pamplona as of 19 February, will officially begin with As Canções, the latest film by one of our guest stars this year: Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. The Festival’s closing event will be the screening of Dime quién era Sanchicorrota, Jorge Tur’s first feature film, winner of the X Films Project 2012.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=274 Fri, 8 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 The Spanish premiere of Invisible, the first feature film by Basque director Víctor Iriarte, is the last special session scheduled by Punto de Vista to draw attention to films and filmmakers that may make good introductions to non-fiction film, combining experimental techniques with high-risk narratives.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=273 Fri, 8 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Tickets for Punto de Vista sessions will be available for sale from Saturday 9 February. Session tickets are €4, and there is a ticket package (five sessions) for €15. All the sessions will take place at the Saide Carlos III Cinema Theatres, except for Processes and special events, to be held at Civivox Condestable. This will also be the venue of the exhibition Emak Bakia: Objects Found, and the closing ceremony on Sunday 24. Free tickets for the opening ceremony, on Tuesday 19 at 8.00pm, can be picked up at the box office one hour before.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=272 Fri, 8 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0002 What do a Tasmanian tiger (extinct in the 1930s), the soundtracks of 1950s B movies of alien invasions, Megaupload and Basque Radical Rock have in common? Maybe nothing, unless an indomitable, heterodox filmmaker like Kikol Grau chooses to bring them together, for the sake of fun and provocation, in the Punto de Vista 2013 trailer. An invitation to reinvent ourselves and rely on our creative potential in times of darkness.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=268 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 As in past editions, Punto de Vista wants to show the work of the filmmakers who make the Festival’s international jury. This year we have three names standing for three disparate film concepts.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=267 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 What is left of us when we are left without memories? Alan Berliner, a regular at the Festival and one of the most prestigious independent filmmakers in USA, puts his amazing capacity at the service of experimental film, human feelings and aesthetic sense in his portrait of his cousin, friend and former mentor Edwin Honig, who has Alzheimer’s.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=270 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 “Processes” is a new section within PdV dedicated to film-makers from Navarra who are currently in the process of creating documentaries or non-fiction audiovisual proposals. This meeting point aims to put the public in contact with the documentary makers and their work, whereby they will expand on the creative process behind their films and show some excerpts of them. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=269 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Four Spanish directors are showing their latest films in The Central Region, the Punto de Vista section dedicated to international avant-garde films. This year, The Central Region is focusing on Spanish films, in an effort to contribute to the Festival’s internationalisation by showing Spanish productions to a global audience.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=264 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 From today (10th January) until 8th February, industry professionals and journalists can apply for official accreditation and passes for the 8th edition of Punto de Vista on the festival webpage. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=263 Wed, 9 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista 2013 will present a brief retrospective of the film-maker Eduardo Coutinho, acknowledged as the greatest Brazilian documentary film-maker of the last three decades since, in 1985, he recovered an unfinished project from the previous decade, which would eventually become Cabra marcado para morrer, one of the key titles in Brazilian and Latin American filmography.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=266 Tue, 8 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista 2013 will feature a special session dedicated to the first feature film created jointly by the film-makers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, which will be presented as a work in progress. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=265 Tue, 8 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista will be hosting the 4th edition of the X Films project in February. As part of the Heterodocsias section, this project aims to produce an audiovisual creation, chosen by a panel of experts from the proposals submitted by three young film-makers. The three creators chosen on this occasion, Greta Alfaro, Lois Patiño and Francina Verdés, will defend their projects to a panel made up of three audiovisual industry professionals: María Zamora, Marina Díaz and Carolina López. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=259 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Eleven feature films and six short films from eleven different countries will make the Official Selection at the Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista, to be held in Pamplona from 19 to 24 February 2013. The Festival is organised by INAAC Foundation for the Government of Navarra.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=262 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista 2013 has got its judges. They are Bill Brown, Christian von Borries, J.P. Sniadecki, José Luis Cienfuegos and Ana Isabel Santos Strindberg, and they will choose the winners of the awards in the Official Selection. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=261 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 The space Punto de Vista dedicates to the most invisible of Spanish films of the past will focus on the life and work of José María Berzosa this year – a filmmaker whose anti-Franco ideas sent him into exile in Paris in 1956. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=260 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 In January, the Navarra Film Library is hosting the 3rd Punto de Vista in Focus meeting. The activity was established in November 2010, in an effort to extend the Festival in Pamplona beyond February. In this new edition, under the title The Tricks of Time (Las trampas del tiempo), four films are being screened exploring the connections between memory, history and the past. Time likes to play tricks, drawing patterns in our memories where we get trapped. What we remember may have never happened – in any case, it was not the way we keep it in our memory. The distance between facts and memories grows longer, but we are never able to accurately measure it. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=256 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 The Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista is once again to become a meeting point for university students with an interest in the latest developments in non-fiction film.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=255 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista has already selected some of the films that will be screened at the Festival’s 8th edition. The section The Central Region will include two films by regulars Thom Andersen and Stephen Dwoskin – Reconversão and Age Is…]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=257 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Do clowns really die? Do princesses answer letters? Do we picture death as a white horse? Where do old words go when they die? These are some of the questions asked in Emak Bakia Baita (The Emak Bakia House), a documentary on the search for the house on the Basque coast where Man Ray shot his famous film Emak Bakia (Leave Me Alone) back in 1926. Eighty years after the shooting, Oskar Alegria sets out to find the house on the basis of four clues: the house’s weird name, a photogram of a window, a photogram of a door and an image of the sea.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=254 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Punto de Vista 2013 is screening a broad retrospective of the German documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise, a chronicler of the continuities and changes in the unification of Germany. It will be the first extensive retrospective in Spain, supplemented by a book in the Punto de Vista collection.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=253 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0002 In the 2013 edition, Punto de Vista will yet again offer several emerging Spanish documentary makers the opportunity to make an audiovisual creation in Navarra. On this occasion, Greta Alfaro, Lois Patiño and Francina Verdés have been called to present their projects during the festival. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=252 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0002 Continuing its backing of enterprising and fresh creators, the festival has commissioned Kikol Grau to make the 2013 header, a brief audiovisual creation that will be shown at the beginning of each of the festival’s sessions. ]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=251 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0002 The Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista is calling for volunteers for its 8th edition, to be held in Pamplona from 19 to 24 February 2013. Applicants must fill in the form on the Festival’s website by 15 January.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=249 Thu, 4 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0002 A total of 796 documentary films, both shorts and full-length features, have been entered for the 2013 ‘Punto de Vista’ Navarre International Documentary Film Festival. The event, organised by Fundación INAAC, part of the Regional Government of Navarre, will be taking place between 19th and 24th February 2013.]]> http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/noticias.asp?IdNoticia=248 Wed, 3 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0002 The Punto de Vista Festival has its billboard for the forthcoming edition. Since 2007, an image by a professional photographer has been used to illustrate each edition and on this occasion, Panel Line Break Room photograph by Sharon Lockhart has been chosen from her Lunch Break series. The American photographer and filmmaker and Gladstone Gallery have transferred the rights to this photograph to the festival for use as the image of the eighth edition, which will be held in Pamplona from 19th to 24th February 2013. Clemente Bernard, Matías Costa, Ellen Koi, Vicent Fournier, Aaron Huey and Bill Brown have collaborated as photographers in previous editions.]]>