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).
He has performed in over forty plays (the most recent of which was Zach Helm’s El buen canario, directed by John Malkovich), and has directed another six.
He has also acted in 39 films, directed, among others, by Pedro Almodóvar (La mala educación / Bad Education, 2003), Arturo Ripstein (Profundo carmesí / Deep Crimson, 1996; El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, 1998; La virgen de la lujuria, 2001), Guillermo del Toro (La invención de Cronos / Chronos, 1992), Jorge Fons (El callejón de los milagros, 1994), Alfonso Cuarón (Sólo con tu pareja / Love in the Time of Hysteria, 1990), Agustí Villaronga (Aro Tolbukhin, 2001), Rodrigo Plá (La zona, 2006), Roberto Sneider (Arráncame la vida, 2007), Vicente Aranda (Celos, 1999), Agustín Díaz Yañes (Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto / Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead, 1995), Joaquín Oristrell (Sin vergüenza, 2000) or Sergio Cabrera (Perder es cuestión de método, 2003).
He holds four Ariels (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y Artes Cinematográficas awards) for his part in Guillermo del Toro’s La invención de Cronos, Arturo Ripstein’s Profundo carmesí, Agustí Villaronga’s Aro Tolbukhin and Nicotina, by Hugo Rodríguez; an Ondas Best Actor Award for Joaquín Oristrell’s Sin vergüenza; and two Best Actor Silver Goddesses (Mexican film journalists) for Juan Carlos de Llaca’s En el aire and Roberto Sneider’s Arráncame la vida.
He has just completed the shooting in Chile of Pablo Perelman’s La lección de pintura.