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).
Seven feature films and four shorts, all to do with food, make up the Culinary Zinema section this year. Once again it has been jointly organized with the Berlin Film Festival and the Basque Culinary center, but this year the Tokyo Goham Film Festival is also offering its support as well as providing a 10,000 Euros prize for one of the programmed films. As usual the feature films will also be accompanied by themed dinners prepared by prestigious international and local chefs
The section will open with Lasse Hallström’s The Hundred-Foot Journey starring Helen Mirren and will be closed by the Peruvian film Buscando a Gastón. The star of the latter, the chef Gastón Acurio, will be preparing the dinner that accompanies the film.