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).
Andrea Ferreol was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1947. She studied dramatic art at the prestigious classes imparted by Jean-Laurent Cochet in Paris, and at the Antoine Bourseiller Dramatic Centre in her native city. She made her theatre debut in a play by Molière released at the Avignon Festival. Her film career started by chance: on a visit to Nice, she was hired to play the small part of a prostitute in Jose Giovanni's La Scomoune, 1972. But it was her performance as the protective "madonna" in Marco Ferreri's La grande bouffe that turned her in 1973 into an indispensable figure of European cinema. Fassbinder in Despair, Schlondorff in Die Blechtrommel, Truffaut in Le dernier métro, Peter Greenaway in A Zed&Two Noughts (ZOO), and Marion Hansel in Il Maestro, are some of the names to be found on a filmography of almost a hundred titles covering nearly thirty years. In recent years Andrea Ferreol has worked in Spain with Joan Potau in No respires and in France with the Afro-American director Melvin Van Peebles, in Le conte du ventre plein, a film screened at this year's Cannes Critics' Week.