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).
The Spanish actress Emma Suárez has been to the Festival on countless occasions since she came here to present the first film she starred in when she was still a teenager: “I always say that coming to San Sebastián is like coming back home.”
This year she’s here at the Festival as a member of the Official Jury, a position she’d been offered before, but unfortunately she hadn’t been available at the time. She accepts the extra degree of responsibility involved in assessing the work of other colleagues from her profession, but stresses that working on the jury “is an excuse to establish a meeting place with people from other latitudes who I share not just a profession with, but also a passion.” She confesses that when it comes to judging films she watches them more as a viewer rather than in a professional capacity. What she really likes are films that leave traces behind for her and remain in her memory for hours, or even days after she’s seen them.
Apart from her work on the jury, this year she’ll also be presenting her latest film Las hijas de Abril along with the Mexican director Michel Franco in the Horizontes Latinos section.