Tickets now on sale for Punto de Vista 2026

Punto de Vista, the international documentary film festival of Navarre, to be held in Pamplona from 20th to 25th April, has placed on sale tickets for all sessions at the festival on its website and at the Baluarte box office, its main venue. Standard tickets will cost 3 euros per session, except for some that are free.

For six days, Punto de Vista will once again be at the epicentre of the international audiovisual community, at different venues in the city including Baluarte, Cines Golem, the Oteiza museum, the University of Navarre museum, UPNA, Filmoteca de Navarra and the Civivox network. Film screenings, meetings with film-makers, workshops, talks and film sessions for families will be taking place at the different festival venues.

This year once again, the event features a series of tracks running through its different sections and proposes themed routes for audiences: "Come Along to Punto de Vista", an invitation to discover Punto de Vista for the first time; "Earth", focusing on voices and narratives from the region; "Our Bodies", about diverse identities and bodies in transformation; "The Planet We Live On", dealing with the environmental crisis; "(Im)passable Frontiers", about migrations and lives in transit; and "Traces of Life", devoted to intimate narratives and memories.

Moreover, the festival again opts to be family-friendly with the Punto de Vista Playscheme: The Red Balloon. Thus, both audiences and pass holders will have at their disposal a place for children between six and twelve years old during the days the festival is held. Places can be booked now on the website.

The six broad sections that make up the festival

This year's edition is structured around six broad sections. The Official Selection presents nineteen films - seven feature-length films, one mid-length one and eleven shorts - from the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa. Four world premieres, one international premiere and fourteen national premieres will be competing for the festival awards: the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for best film, the Jean Vigo prize for best director, the prize for best short film, the special audience prize and the youth prize.

Focus is organised in three programmes that explore some of the most thought-provoking directions in contemporary film: Among the Flies, about the most thought-provoking, innovative paths of documentary exploration related to the Sensory Ethnography Lab; Permanence of the Ephemeral, devoted to the re-editing of digital archives on the internet, and a programme concentrating on the work of film-maker Alia Syed.

The Ricercata section explores experimentation in the language of film through different programmes: Forever Young: Cinema in Relief, a journey through the history of experimental 3D cinema; Cinema in Common, about collective creative practices; Termites, centring on film-makers in our own context and their work processes; and the installation The Blue of Distance, by María Hidalgo Nieto.

The X Films project is to feature film-maker Nayra Sanz, who will be presenting the results of her residency at Centro Huarte, and will preview the project she is to premiere at next year's festival. There will also be the premiere of Gaulana, by Pablo Casanueva, made between 2025 and 2026.

Txinparta, aimed at at young audiences, will continue to bring the festival to new generations with a session for families, workshops, screenings for secondary school students, activities at the University of Navarre and the Public University of Navarre, and another edition of "Young Programmers".

In turn, Lan will once again be a space for reflection about film, with encounters and conversations about the past, present and future of the medium. Its contents include a dialogue with former artistic directors of the festival —Josetxo Cerdán, Oskar Alegría and Manuel Asín— together with journalist Elsa Fernández-Santos, an illustrated talk devoted to film-maker Mirentxu Loyarte (1938–2025) and the professional events Napardocs and DokLab.