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).
Selva Almada was born in Entre Ríos, Argentina. She is a writer, author of the novels No es un río (2020), Ladrilleros (2013) and El viento que arrasa (2012), amongst other books. In 2017 she published El mono en el remolino. Notas del rodaje de Zama de Lucrecia Martel (The Monkey in the Swirl. Notes on Zama by Lucrecia Martel), translated into English, German and Turkish. Her other body of works has also been translated into French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Indonesian and Norwegian.
She is the co-screenwriter of Jesús López (2021) with its director, Maximiliano Schonfeld. The film had its premiere as part of the Horizontes Latinos section at the San Sebastian Festival and won the Abrazo awards for best film at the Biarritz Film Festival (2021), Best Latin American Film at the Mar del Plata Festival and Best Film and Audience Award at the Entre Ríos Film Festival (2021). She also collaborated on the documentary Lai (2017) by the director Alejandro Millán Pastori.