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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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Australian director Kitty Green is competing for the Golden Shell with The Royal Hotel, a film about two American backpackers who take a job in a remote Australian pub to earn a bit of extra cash. At a press conference Green explained how, “often when you see two young women in a film in the middle of nowhere you think something bad is going to happen, but we wanted to subvert this trope and play around with genre and audience expectations, to create a narrative about strength and women finding themselves in a rite of passage.”
As for what the reaction of the average Aussie male would be to her film, she said that the lack of overt violence might make them uncomfortable as this is what they are waiting for and when it doesn’t come, they’re forced to look at their own behaviour. In any case she thinks that, “we’ve seen enough violence against women on screen,” and her goal was to achieve a different way of showing women being strong in the Outback. She also declared that she wanted to highlight the magnificent landscape of her native country while showing microcosms of dark behaviour that she didn’t agree with.
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