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).
Jannike Åhlund was director of the Göteborg International Film Festival (Sweden) from 2002 until April 2007.
As a journalist and film critic, she has worked for Swedish newspapers, television and radio. From 1990 until 1995 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Chaplin film magazine, a work earning her the National Journalism Award in 1994, the same year in which she also won the Ingmar Bergman Award.
She was a critic with the national TV show on current films, Filmkrönikan, for the three years preceding her position at the Göteborg International Film Festival.
As a writer, Jannike Åhlund is the author of En sagolik (film)historia (A book on Icelandic cinema) and the co-writer of En liten bok om Hasse (a book on the Swedish director Hasse Ekman, written with Leif Furhammar). Another of her specialised works, New Cinema in Sweden”, has been published and translated into several languages, including English, Spanish and Russian.
Since 2004, she has also been the director of the Bergman Week at Fårö, a six-day celebration of work by the recently deceased genius Ingmar Bergman (www.bergmanveckan.se). In 2006, Bergman himself participated enthusiastically in the Week, at which he met the actress Harriet Andersson and directors Josef Fares and Ang Lee.
Jannike Åhlund was a juror on the Un Certain Regard Jury at Cannes 2003, and at Venice (Opera Prima) the same year. She has participated in a number of Fipresci juries over the years. She currently lives in Stockholm.