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).
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bulge Ceylan won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival with this film, the tale of Aydin, a former actor, who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia helped by his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla. As winter progresses, the hotel becomes not only a refuge, but a place with no escape that fuels the bitterness.