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).
Along with several members of the cast, director and scriptwriter Noah Pritzker presented his second feature Ex-husbands yesterday at the Kursaal, a tender portrait of a man in his 60s who in the middle of a traumatic divorce decides to reinvent himself by crashing his son’s bachelor party in Tulum.
Asked about whether they were nervous about promoting the film while the actors’ and scriptwriters’ strike was still running, Griffin Dunne, who plays the father in the film, stressed they wouldn’t have come without having received the blessing of their union, as this is a small independent film without distribution, and that they were thrilled to be here.
As for whether art imitated life in the film, Dunne said that: “I live off my luggage. Your past is what you draw from. The strongest tool an actor has is their past.”
The producer, Bruce Cohen, said that they had created a “beautiful nuanced take on masculinity from a lot of different angles” while Dunne confessed that finding a role as a central figure like this at his age was a real delight. Pritzker added that the more time he spent with Dunne the more he knew that he was just right for the role.