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).
Laurent Cantet, who in 1999 won the New Directors Award at San Sebastian with Ressources humaines (Human Resources) and winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes in 2008 with his previous film, Entre les murs / The Class, portrays in his new film set in 1953 a group of girls living in a small New York State city who form the secret girls’ society, “Foxfire”. The gang sets out on a trip of vengeance to fulfil the impossible dream of living by their own rules and laws, no matter what happens. Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni, Claire Mazarolle, Madeleine Bisson and Rachel Nyhuus head the cast.