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).
Martín Rejtman (Buenos Aires, 1961) studied film at New York University (NYU). He directed the medium-length films Doli vuelve a casa (Doli Goes Home,1984-2004) and Sitting on a Suitcase (1986) before making his feature debut with Rapado (Shaved Head,1992). These were followed by Silvia Prieto (1999), screened in the Made in Spanish section at San Sebastian, Los guantes mágicos (The Magic Gloves,2004), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Argentine Film and a participant in the Horizontes selection at San Sebastian, Entrenamiento elemental para actores (Elementary Training for Actors,2009), co-directed with Federico León, and Dos disparos (Two Shots Fired,2014), which competed at the Locarno Festival and was presented in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian. In 2007 he directed the documentary Copacabana, FIPRESCI Prize for Best Documentary at the FICCO in Mexico City. The short film Shakti (2019), which competed in the short film Official Competition at the last Berlin Festival, will screen this year in the Zabaltegi - Tabakalera section.
In recent years a number of retrospectives have been dedicated to his work at the BAFICI, the Jeonju Festival, the Harvard Film Archive, the Cinemateca Portuguesa and Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastian, among others.
As an author he has published among other short stories Rapado (Planeta, 1992), Velcro y yo (Planeta, 1996), Literatura y otros cuentos (Interzona, 2005) Tres cuentos (Mondadori, 2012) and Madrid es una mierda (Barret, 2018).