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).
Viktor van der Valk (Reykjavik, 1987), screenwriter and film director, received his cinematic training at the Utrecht School for the Arts (HKU), the Netherlands Film Academy, and through his debut short film, Vegleysa, shot in his home country, Iceland. His graduation short Onno the Oblivious (2014) was selected for numerous festivals and received several awards, including the Orona Award in the Nest section of San Sebastian Festival. With the prize money from this film, he decided to make his first feature Nocturne (2019), a low-budget film which had its world premiere in the Bright Future section of Rotterdam Festival. While finishing his debut film he was an assistant to his colleague and friend Guido Hendrikx on his film Stranger in Paradise (2016) and participated in the 2018 edition of the Torino FilmLab’s script-lab with a project called The Camera. Currently Viktor is working on a project with the Dutch visual artist Jeroen Kooijmans.