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).
Australian Kitty Green, who directed The Assistant (2019) and competed for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastian Festival with The Royal Hotel (2023), gave a talk at Tabakalera's Z Room on 25 September 2023. In her lecture, the director of several documentaries such as Casting JonBenet (2017), The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul (2015) and Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013), spoke about the transformative power of cinema.