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 French festival programmer. When she finished her university studies in Classics, she went into the world of cinema. She began to work at the French Cinematheque and at the Louis Lumiére School. From 1984 to 1987 she worked with the Cannes Directors' Fortnight in Paris. In 1987 she got a grant to study restoring and conserving films in the United States in the archives in the MOMA, the Library of Congress and UCLA. In 1989 Peter Scarlet, the director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, suggested that she work with him. In 1995, back in France, she organised the programming of the "Rencontres Internationales de Cinéma à París" with the aim of establishing an annual meeting point for independent international cinema and encouraging exchanges between producers and directors and the public in the French capital. In 1997 she became a correspondent in France for the Rotterdam Film Festival. Since 1999 she has been the general delegate at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes.