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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).
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A Basque director, born in Zarautz in 1944. He tried to get into the EOC, but he wasn't old enough, so he started working in the Popular Children's Theatre Company. His first full-length film was precisely a film for children Fantasía...3. In 1968 he directed Algo amargo en la boca which gave him his first problems with the censors. He joined the Spanish Communist Party in 1971 and since then he has combined his political activism with films that show a deep political commitment to the working-classes. He achieved notoriety in 1970 with El techo de cristal (Glass Ceiling) and La semana del asesino (Week of the Killer) a year later. However it was to be after Franco's death, during the Transition, when Eloy de la Iglesia established a personal kind of cinema with provocative powerful images, in which he dealt openly with homosexuality, hypocrisy, drugs and juvenile delinquency in films like Los placeres ocultos (Hidden Pleasures, 1976), El diputado (The Deputy, 1978), Navajeros (1980) El pico (1983) and El pico II (1984). In 1987 he directed La estanquera de Vallecas which was to be his last film before he disappeared for a while due to personal problems. In 1996 the San Sebastián Festival devoted a retrospective to his work that led him to return to the world of cinema. In the year 2000 he filmed a version of Calígula by Albert Camus for television and at the moment he is preparing to shoot a new full-length film, Los novios búlgaros.
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