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).
The first contact with cinema of this tireless French producer was an attempt to produce no less than Nicholas Ray. The year was 1969, and an extremely young Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff was dreaming of working with the mythical director of Johnny Guitar. Although the project with Ray didn't come to pass, Tchal Gadjieff had already decided to become a producer of risky films. And there certainly was a bit of risk in his first production, Out One Spectre by Jacques Rivette, who produced his next three films. Right from the outset, his policy was to work with the directors who interested him personally, even though the projects could be considered as impossible and seem like madness from the outside, such as India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter by Marguerite Duras, Forttini Cani by J.M. Straub and Danielle Huillet, and Jacques Rivette's Les enfants du placard. Interested in art no matter what its form, he has produced filmed operas and documentaries about the world of music, political documentaries and experimental works for television with directors such as Godard. Continuing with his policy of risk-taking, Tchal Gadjieff has produced the latest work of Michelangelo Antonioni, Al di lá de le nuvole, co-directed by Wim Wenders and is now at the pre-production stage of his next film Eros. He has likewise turned his interests towards the world of animation with Andrey Khrjanovski's Le Général et Bonaparte, with a script by Tonino Guerra and drawings by Serguï Barkhin and the project of L'Aquilon, an animated film based on a work by Tonino Guerra and Michelangelo Antonioni.