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).
A lecturer in history and cinema, born in Italy. In 1961 he graduated in Political Science at Cesare Alfieri University in Florence. He was Head of the Culture Department in the city of Bologna from 1962 to 1966. At the end of the sixties he founded the Bologna Film library which he was director of until the end of the year 2000. During this time, the Film Archives received all kinds of awards, especially in recognition of the work carried out by the "L'Immagine Ritrovata" laboratory in recovering and restoring films. Until April 2001 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the FIAF. In 1995 the president of the Italian Republic presented him with an important honorary award and three years later he was named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government. At the moment he is director of the Federico Fellini Foundation in Rímini and continues to give film classes at the University of Bologna.