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).
Jessica Kiang (Dublin) is a critic, essayist and programmer who has been writing about film for 15 years. She was Features Editor at The Playlist for five years and since 2014 has written for Variety, Sight & Sound, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone. Her long-form essays have appeared on Mubi and Criterion as well as dotting the booklets of many a DVD/Blu-ray release. She attends the Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Sundance and Busan film festivals and has twice been a mentor at the Melbourne Film Festival's Critics' Campus. She has served on numerous festival juries, including at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2021 BFI London Film Festival, IDFA 2021, Film Fest Gent 2023 and CPH:DOX 2024. Since 2022 she has been the International Programmer of the Belfast Film Festival and has recently been appointed to the selection committee of the Berlinale.