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).
Introduced as “a legend of cinema,” Donald Sutherland received the second of this year’s Donostia Awards last night at a ceremony that paid tribute to a prolific career spanning five decades.
After an overview of his acting curriculum that has included such classics as Robert Altman’s M.A.S.H; Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900; Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now; Robert Redford’s Ordinary People; and Federico Fellini’s Casanova, the director of the Festival, José Luis Rebordinos presented the Canadian actor with the award. The audience in the Kursaal gave him a standing ovation as he said, “It is such a pleasure to be in the Basque Country. I have long honoured and admired and watched you and have great joy to be with you tonight. It’s a great honour for me and I’m delighted. Mila esker, Euskal Herria.”
The gala was immediately followed by a screening of The Burnt Orange Heresy. Its director, Giuseppe Capotondi, presented this thriller in which Sutherland appears alongside Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger.