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).
Manuela Martelli (Santiago de Chile) is a director, screenwriter and actress. She began her career at the age of 17 starring in Gonzalo Justiniano’s film B-Happy (2004), winner of the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival. Since then, she has worked with the directors Andrés Wood (Machuca, 2004), Sebastián Lelio (Navidad / Christmas, 2009), Martín Rejtman (Dos disparos / Two Shots Fired, Horizontes Latinos, 2014) and Alicia Scherson (Il futuro, 2013), among others.
In 2014, she directed her first short film, Apnea, premiered at the Valdivia International Film Festival. The following year she was selected to participate in the Chile Factory programme, where she co-directed Marea with Amirah Tajdin. The short premiered in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the Festival de Cannes and was later screened at Sundance and the NYFF, among others.
Her first feature film, 1976 (2022), premiered in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the Festival de Cannes, participated in Horizontes Latinos in San Sebastian and was nominated for the Goya for Best Ibero-American Film. She also received the Sutherland Award from the BFI, the Best Debut Film Award at Jerusalem Festival and the Platino Awards and Best Actress at Tokyo Festival, among other distinctions.