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).
Cristina Gallego (Bogotá) joined Ciro Guerra in 2001 to create the production company Ciudad Lunar, from which she has produced the Colombian director’s La sombra del caminante (Wandering Shadow, 2004), which was selected for Films in Progress and participated in New Directors at San Sebastian; Los viajes del viento (Horizontes Latinos, 2010), shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent, Horizontes Latinos, 2015), the first Oscar-nominated Colombian film, winner of the Art Cinema Award at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes.
In 2018 she also produced her own directorial debut, Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage, Perlak, 2018), which she co-directed with Ciro Guerra and which opened the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at Cannes on its 50th anniversary. The film won 30 international awards and was listed among the year’s best films by media including Time Magazine, The New York Times, Variety, The New Yorker, Esquire and The Village Voice.
In 2022 she produced Los reyes del mundo (The Kings of the World, Laura Mora), winner of the Golden Shell in San Sebastian. She has also produced Demonios tus ojos (Sister of Mine, Pedro Aguilera, Made in Spain, 2017), Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades (Ruben Blades is Not My Name, Abner Benahim, 2018), co- produced Wajib (Annmarie Jacir, 2017), winner of 5 awards in Locarno, associate-produced Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021), Jury Prize at Cannes, and executive-produced Waiting for the Barbarians (Ciro Guerra, Perlak, 2019), which competed in Venice.