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).
Juanita Onzaga (Bogotá) is a filmmaker and visual artist who lives between Brussels, Bogotá and Mexico. Her work combines elements of fiction and non-fiction, touching on the importance of mysticism, memory, death and imagination, creating poetical stories that reflect different ways of perceiving reality in strong political contexts.
Her first short film, La jungla me conoce mejor que tú mismo (2017), won the Generation 14plus Special Jury Prize for Best Short at the Berlin Festival and participated in Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for short films by film students. In 2018, her second short film, Nuestro canto a la guerra, premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes, travelled to more than 90 festivals and harvested numerous awards. Her most recent short, El mañana es un palacio de agua, competed in 2022 at the Rotterdam Festival and showed at the MoMA in New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
She had her first virtuality reality experience at Venice Festival in September 2023 with Floating with Spirits, in the Venice Immersive section, as part of the Venice Biennale.
She is currently in the funding process of her directorial debut, Las tierras que te buscan, developing a documentary and creating a series of installations on ancestral futurism.