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).
Takahisa Zeze has become a cult figure on the Japanese independent film scene. This is probably his most ambitious film, and it premiered at the Berlin Festival in 2011. An extensive fresco of today’s Japanese society intertwining the stories of characters tormented by vengeance, adultery, greed, love and the need for redemption.