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 Official Section has opened with Chicogrande, a Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution. At a press conference after the screening of his film, the director Felipe Cazals stressed that loyalty was its focal point, and that this was a quality that was not very easy to find in Mexico nowadays, or anywhere for that matter.
He felt that his film offered a critical vision of the Revolution, that was quite different to the official versions and that the revolutionary cause was still utterly valid today: “there are forty million Mexicans who don’t have two meals a day, so Villa and Zapata are still right.”
Argi DORRONSORO