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).
Ariel Schweitzer (Tel Aviv, 1974) is a cinema historian, film critic in the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and professor at Tel Aviv University. He is author of the books Le nouveau cinéma israélien (Paris, 2013, Tel Aviv, 2017), Le cinéma israélien de la modernité (Paris 1997 / Tel Aviv, 2003) and Il cinema israeliano contemporaneo (Venice, 2009). He is also the translator into Hebrew of the book Notes sur le cinématographe, by the French director Robert Bresson and the curator of many film retrospectives in Israel, Europe and South America, dedicated to Robert, Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Vittorio De Sica, David Perlov, Amos Gitai and Uri Zohar.