Punto de Vista, the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, today announces the sixth artistic director in its history.
The event, created in 2005 by the Government of Navarra and organized by NICDO, is one of the most internationally renowned artistic programs of the Directorate-General for Culture.

From its beginnings, it was conceived with a dual leadership structure: an executive director, responsible for the overall management of the project—a role held since 2018 by Teresa Morales de Álava—and an artistic director, a position that rotates every four years. Thus, Miquel Martí Freixas succeeds Carlos Muguiro, Josetxo Cerdán, Oskar Alegría, Garbiñe Ortega, and Manuel Asín at the helm of the festival’s programming.

According to the committee evaluating the applications for the public call, Martí Freixas’s proposal “is conceptually very well structured, built around a deep analysis and understanding of the festival’s history, as well as a meaningful and courageous forward-looking perspective to reshape or propose new ideas that will enrich the festival and build upon what previous teams have achieved.”

In the words of Miquel Martí Freixas, his project seeks “to explore the fascinating contemporary cinematic languages in order to offer a varied map of paths, experiences, and discoveries that carry Punto de Vista’s valuable legacy into its next stage, and thus invite audiences to a suggestive, surprising, and enjoyable festival.”

Miquel Martí Freixas (Barcelona, 1978) is a film programmer, educator, cultural manager, and critic. A programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and co-founder of the film showcase La Inesperada, he has also worked as a programmer for festivals and institutions such as DocumentaMadrid, Filmoteca de Catalunya, États généraux du film documentaire Lussas, ZINEBI, MajorDocs, Curtocircuito, and Mostra Front, among others. He has served on juries at numerous festivals, including RID Montreal, DocLisboa, Play-Doc Tui, and the Málaga Festival. He co-founded the cooperative Zumzeig Cinema and produced a wide range of film programs for this venue. His teaching work has taken place at ESCAC and various universities, master’s programs, and film schools (UAB, Tecnocampus, UPF). In the field of criticism, he was co-founder and editor of the non-fiction magazine Blogs&Docs (2006–2013).

Alongside the new artistic direction, the new Selection Committee is also being presented today, composed of three women and one man: Inés Calero, Ekhiñe Etxeberria, Antonio Miguel Arenas, and Margot Mecca—four professionals with diverse backgrounds and expertise in programming, criticism, research, and creation. They will work together with Miquel Martí Freixas to select the films that will make up the festival’s Official Selection for the 2026–2029 period.

The team will work together with the executive direction to prepare the next edition of Punto de Vista, which will take place from April 20 to 25 and will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the festival’s creation.