As we are busy preparing this year’s festival edition, we’re happy to announce the further film programmes. The Documentary Film Homage is dedicated to US filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt. Schmitt’s work reveals the historical and ideological divisions in her home country. The Animated Film Homage will honour the commitment of several people: Punto y Raya (PyR), festival and international platform positioned where abstract film, animation and new media meet.

Documentary Film Hommage 

Many of Lee Anne Schmitt‘s works are essay films shot on 16mm and address such themes as historical injustices, the power of large corporations, respect for the environment, and equality regardless of class or ethnicity. We will screen her four feature-length documentaries and four more short films.

In Schmitt’s films, the personal is political and the political is deeply personal. The best example of this is her latest film “Evidence” (2025), which only recently premiered at this year’s Berlinale Forum. In a masterclass, curator James Lattimer will talk to Lee Anne Schmitt about her artistic practice and the significance of autobiographical and research-based approaches. Further topics will include using techniques of film directing to present an argument and the relationship between landscape and text.

Animated Film Hommage 

Punto y Raya (meaning “dot and dash”) is dedicated to the fundamental elements that comprise abstract moving images: form, colour, motion and sound. The works shown completely dispense with narrative, characters and dialogue. Our Animated Film Hommage will consist of three programmes and a masterclass.

“A Best Of Punto y Raya” will showcase works by the award-winners and finalists of the most recent PyR festival edition. “Celebrating Women Abstractionists” focuses on the work of female filmmakers. The third programme will screen six experimental art films of the 1920s to live music and the artist duo kinoMANUAL will give a modern twist to Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s “Reflektorische Farblichtspiele” (1922) in a live performance. 

You can find more information about the hommage programmes in our press release.

Please find the full list of films here: Film Lists 2025

Photo credit (fltr): Tuni Chatterji, Punto y Raya