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 Peruvian director, scriptwriter and producer Claudia Llosa, who won the Golden Bear at Berlin last year for her second film La teta asustada, is here in San Sebastián to form part of the Official Section jury. As the daughter of an artist, and niece of author Mario Vargas Llosa and filmmaker Luis Llosa, she grew up in an intellectual environment that made it easier for her to follow her artistic inclinations. “Instead of going to the shopping mall, we used to go to
museums and play in the courtyards of galleries.At home they had talked about psychoanalysis since I was really young and this influenced my creative process.”
Her natural inclination towards cinema was an intuitive process.“I’m a really visual person; I can concentrate totally on a picture really quickly, which is something that doesn’t happen with literature.”
She tried to be a poet, but her dyslexia made this really difficult for her. “Through a combination of luck and chance, I ended up opting for cinema. It’s what best includes what I’m interested in, which is analysing and understanding actions and feelings.”She confesses that she wanted to be a psychoanalyst, and that’s why she enjoys the stage when she explores characters during the process of writing the script and directing actors.