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 mixture of fiction and documentary elements makes this small production an attractive little film. “The story is not real, but many of the situations are”, Chapour Haghighat, the Iranian-French director and scriptwriter that presented his second feature film yesterday explained, accompanied by his own daughter. “She’s not an actress, and she’s not even in the film, but she really insisted on coming up with me”.
A group of villagers travels to the city in search of “learned men” to help them ask the government for doctors and medicine to face the deadly disease that threatens their village. This fable about the passing of time, loneliness and death brings together a group of people from different classes. The Firm Land tells a fictional story that borrows real passages from life in Mumbai, which gives it a realistic documentary feeling. “It’s not comparable to a big budget movie. It’s full of imperfactions, as life is, and that’s my vision of the world. I don’t like ‘clean things’, they are less real”.