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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).
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After studying German and Theater at the Free University of Berlin, Christian Petzold (Hilden, Germany) studied film at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). He made his directorial debut with Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In, 2001), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was included in the retrospective The Act of Killing: Cinema and Global Violence at the San Sebastian Festival in 2016. The film received the Best Film Award from the German Association of Film Critics, among others.
In 2003, he won the FIPRESCI Prize for Wolfsburg in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. He has participated in the official competition of the Berlinale with Gespenster (2005), Yella (2007), Barbara (2012), for which he received the Silver Bear for Best Director, and Roter Himmel (Afire, Perlak), which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize this year.
In 2008, he was part of the official competition at the Venice Film Festival with Jerichow.
In 2014, he competed with Phoenix in the Official Selection of the San Sebastián Film Festival, where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize.
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