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).
The retrospective at the 71st San Sebastián Festival that is screening 20 films – full-length, medium-length and short works, that the Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara directed between 1953 and 1992, has been complemented by the publication of a book “Avant-garde chronicles. Conversations with Hiroshi Teshigahara.” The book, which is published in collaboration with the Basque Film Library, was presented yesterday by its author, Inuhiko Yomota, its translator from Japanese, Daniel Aguilar Gutiérrez, and Quim Casas, member of the Festival selection committee and editor of the book. The cycle on Teshigahara is co-organised with the Basque Film Archive in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and the Etxepare Basque Institute in the framework of the Euskadi-Japan 2023 program. “It’s been a really difficult cycle that has taken us years to be able to organise, this retrospective is the only one of its kind in the world because it’s going to be possible to see all of the Japanese director’s films,” Daniel Aguilar explained.