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).
Filmmaker, teacher and film curator. Doctor of Humanities (Extraordinary Doctoral Award) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, graduate in Communication from the University of Navarra and in Film Directing from the ECAM (the Madrid Film School). Together with Sergio Oksman, he made Goodbye, America (2007), Notes on the Other (2009), A Story for the Modlins (2012) and O futebol (2015). Visiting Scholar at the Cambridge University Department of Slavonic Studies, he edited the publications Ver sin Vertov. (1955-2005) Cincuenta años de no ficción en Rusia y la URSS; Ermanno Olmi. Siete encuentros y otros instantes; El hombre sin la cámara / The Man Without the Movie Camera. El cine de Alan Berliner / The Cinema of Alan Berliner and, more recently, Las formas de la Estalgia (cubana) and Mi abuelo murió leyendo a Pushkin (Antología de escritores cubanos post soviéticos). He founded the Punto de Vista Festival in Navarra and was its director until 2009. He is head of the documentary cinema speciality at the ECAM. Since 2017, he has been directing the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, the new study centre on film archiving, curatorship and creation in San Sebastian.