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).
The Catalan director Oriol Paulo presented God’s crooked lines in the Perlak section yesterday. It’s a thriller set in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1970s. The book that it is based on by Torcuato Luca de Tena was a best seller when it was published in 1979, but is now almost forgotten, and Oriol Paulo explains that it was obvious that it was written in a different context, and while remaining faithful to the book, both he and his co-scriptwriter, Guillem Clau decided that the best way to connect with the sensibilities of a contemporary audience was to focus the plot on an empowered woman like Alice Gould, a private investigator who checks into a psychiatric hospital feigning paranoia with the goal of collecting evidence for the case she is working on.
The film also portrays the tensions that existed in Spain at that time during the transition to democracy, when certain norms were starting to be replaced by others and where a new school of thought was starting to break through.