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).
Section created in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival and jointly organised with the Basque Culinary Center to unite cinema, gastronomy and activities related to food in education, science and agriculture. This section offers a competitive selection of gastronomy-related films accompanied by themed dinners.
Furthermore this year “Culinary Zinema” is sponsored by Nespresso for the first time, and continues its collaboration with the Tokyo Gohan Film Festival, taking place in Tokyo’s Shibuya and Aoyama districts, which also largely focusses on the film & food combo. The jury chosen by the Tokyo Gohan Film Festival will present one of the films programmed in the “Culinary Zinema” section with an award of €10,000, going to the international distributor of the film, or failing this figure, to the producer.
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