Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
Simplicio is the story of an old fisherman who won them all to the sea and to the people, and who wanted to immortalize himself in a kid, played by people who had never before been in front of a movie camera. The old Simplicio is his youth he owned a ship that was the envy of the rest of the town in which he lived, but the envy was transformed into mockery when a great storm destroyed the ship against the rocks and the unfortunate fisherman had to make a living until the end of his days fishing in a wooden boat. Elder has already rescued a two-year-old boy who was crying in a boat adrift. From then until the death of the old fisherman, both became inseparable.