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).
Jaime Rosales competed for the Golden Shell here in 2008 with Tiro en la cabeza and yesterday he returned to the Festival to present Girasoles Silvestres, a film that talks about love as a learning process. “Normally when we talk about learning we do so to refer to a job. However, I was interested in showing how, throughout our love lives, we usually have very different partners and this also reflects a learning process in which we try out different things with different people,” the director explained. In Girasoles Silvestres this process is embodied by Julia, a young mother, played by Anna Castillo, who we see in three periods of her life defined by the characteristics of the three partners that she shares her days with, who in turn, represent three different models of masculinity and three different choices that Julia makes. Anna Castillo stressed the emotional bond that she had with her character and how she perfectly represented a young mother living in a patriarchal system surrounded by toxic masculine figures, just like in the neighborhood where she grew up.