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).
A film that competed at the Malaga Film Festival, won the Award for Best Actress at the Abu Dhabi Festival and took part in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. Fatimetu goes back to the Saharan Refugee Camps in Tinduf (Algeria) when her mother dies and meets up again with her brothers and sisters. She learns that her mothers' last wishes were for her to stay there to look after her sister Hayat.