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).
Born in Barcelona, she began her career as a dancer. In 1981 she starred in the film version of Mercè Rodoreda’s novel “La Plaça del Diamant”, directed by Paco Betriu, in the role of Colometa, for which she won a prize as most promising actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1982.
Twenty-one years later we can safely say that Sílvia Munt has built one of the most substantial careers in Spanish cinema. She has worked in thirty feature films with directors like Fernando Trueba, Montxo Armendáriz, Ana Díez,Vicente Aranda, Mariano Barroso, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Pedro Olea, José Luis Cuerda and Juanma Bajo Ulloa, among many others. She has won two Goya awards, one as an actress for her performance in Alas de mariposa and another as director for the documentary Lalia, for which she has received numerous international awards such as one from the prestigious United Nations World Forum on Children’s Television.
For the last two years, Sílvia Munt has combined her work as an actress with directing films. As an actress she has featured in Juan Vicente Córdoba’s Aunque tú no lo sepas (What You Never Knew), and in various television projects in different countries: Bernard Stora’s L’âiné des Ferchaux in France, Maxima’s Miracle, by Paul Ruven, in Holland, and Judith Collell’s Fragments in Catalonia. She has just finished Bruno Gantillon’s Le meilleur commerce du monde for French television and the autonomous Catalan channel. As a director, her latest works are the documentary Dimitrievna Diakonova Gala and the TV film Las hijas de Mohamed in which she once again tackles the subject of mixed cultures.