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 1970 in Rennes, he studied dramatic art in Paris and New York. He started his career in theatre, where he has performed in works by Brecht, Beckett, Molière, Artaud, Marivaux and Chekhov, among other great playwrights.
His first film part was in Diane Bertrand’s Un samedi sur la Terre (1996), which participated in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. He landed his first big part in C’est quoi la vie? (What’s Life?, 1999) The film won the Golden Shell and Silver Shell for Best Actor (Jacques Dufilho) at San Sebastian Festival in 1999. Éric Caravaca won the César for Most Promising Actor in 2000.
By then a prestigious actor, Caravaca was nominated as Best Actor at the 2001 César awards for François Dupeyron’s La chambre des officiers (Officer’s Ward, 2000), screened as part of Zabaltegi at San Sebastian. He subsequently starred in Patrick Chéreau’s Son frère (His Brother, 2002), Silver Bear at Berlin; François Dupeyron’s Inguélézi (Clandestine, 2003), which participated in the San Sebastian Official Selection, Lucas Belvaux’ La raison du plus faible (2005), Jérôme Bonnell’s J’attends quelqu’un (2006), Laurent Herbier’s Mon Colonel (2006), and Catherine Corsini’s Les ambitieux (2006).
Éric Caravaca has also directed a film, Le passager (2004), selected for the Critics’ Week at Venice Festival in which he starred alongside Julie Depardieu.