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).
Antoinette Boulat (Paris) began her career as a casting director with Ponette (Jacques Doillon, Perlak, 1996), for which Victoire Thivisol won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in Venice. Since then, she has worked on more than 120 films with directors such as Olivier Assayas, Léos Carax, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benoît Jacquot, François Ozon, Mia Hansen-Løve, Patricia Mazuy, Ridley Scott, Lars Von Trier, and Ruben Östlund.
In 2015, she and her fellow casting directors of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) received the EDA Award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ). In 2017, she won the first European Casting Award at the Locarno Film Festival with Elsa Pharaon for La tête haute (Standing tall, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2015). In 2022, she won with Doug Aibel the Chicago Indie Critics Award for her work in The French Dispatch, (Wes Anderson, Perlak, 2021).
In 2021 she directed her first feature film, Ma nuit (My Night), screened in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Festival and in Toronto, amongst other competitions. The film received the Ecumenical Prize at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize at the Panorama of European Cinema in Athens.