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).
Daniela Michel, the director of the Morelia International Film Festival, has come to San Sebastián to form part of the Horizontes Latinos Jury and is really pleased about the quantity and quality of the films from her country that are being screened here this year. She hopes they will be as successful as Diego Luna’s Abel and Sebastián Hiriart’s A tiro de piedra, which won
prizes at last year’s Festival.
She’s really optimistic about the current state of Latin American cinema in general and stresses how Latin films are at the forefront of modern cinema, as could be seen at Cannes
where three Latin American films formed part of the “Un certain regard“ section.“There has
been an enormous resurgence all over Latin America.”
She thinks that the real turning point in the fortunes of Mexican cinema in particular came in the year 2000 when Amores perros won at Cannes: “For us it was like the parting of the waters.”