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).
Three years ago Stockholm, a small film co-financed by crowdfunding won several prizes at the Malaga Film Festival and from that moment on the director, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, began to receive messages from producers interested in finding out whether he had a new project in mind. Sorogoyen confessed that after working on a really small film like Stockholm, tackling a project as big as Que Dios nos perdone did put him under a bit of pressure, but that it was liberating to have such a dependable production team behind him so he didn’t have to concentrate on anything that wasn’t the shooting process itself. His producers Mercedes Gamero and Gerardo Herrero also accompanied him yesterday at the Festival. The latter confessed that what encouraged him to produce this film was the fact that it was a thriller, a genre he had always liked, but that it also tackled social issues.
One of the aspects that the journalists at the press conference that Sorogoyen gave yesterday is the impressive on-screen chemistry between Antonio de la Torre and Roberto Álamo, the two leading actors in the film. Sorogoyen felt that, “as they are two actors that work very differently, the result of getting them to act together has been really enriching for the film.”