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).
A gravedigger living with his family in a cemetery proved to be a great subject for Filipino director Daniel Palacio’s first film, coming, as he does, from a developing country with a lot of social problems. He stressed that the situation he portrays in his film is real – people really do live in cemeteries in the Philipines, and he felt that it would find an audience in other countries as there are outcasts everywhere. Selftaught and a protégé of the prestigious director, Brillante Mendoza, who produced Pailalim/Underground, Palacio revealed that it was the inner strength shown by the people who have to live in these appalling conditions that forms the driving force behind his film.