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).
The Chilean director, Pablo Larraín, whose film Tony Manero is set in the Pinochet years and features a John Travolta impersonator in a sordid café, warns people not to expect a charming slice of kitsch. What he really wanted to do was, “to provide a metaphor that would work as an allegory, based on what was happening in Chile at that time, about the aggressive influence of US culture on our society, and as a metaphor for the impunity and inhumane irrational violence of Pinochet’s dictatorship".
Pablo Larraín was able to finish off his film thanks to the help of Films in Progress 13 in Toulouse and since then it has been shown at Cannes, Toronto and has been released commercially in numerous countries where it has generally been well received.