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 Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi has already bagged two Golden Shells at San Sebastian: in 2004 with Turtles Can Fly and in 2006 with Niwemang/Half Moon. His latest film tells the tale of Sahel, an Iranian-Kurdish poet newly released from a thirty-year prison sentence who thinks of nothing but finding his wife. But she thinks he is dead. Monica Bellucci and Behrouz Vossoughi headline the film.