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).
In the last years of Franco's rule, a chicken thief with a long record of delinquency and petty crime, Eleuterio Sánchez, achieved national fame as "El Lute" for his continuous, though temporary, escapes from jail and the death sentence he received for his crimes.