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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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Ulrich Seidl (Vienna) began his career with award-winning documentaries such as Good News (1990), Tierische Liebe / Animal Love (Zabaltegi, 1995) and Models (1998). His first fiction feature film, Hundstage / Dog Days (2001), won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. Encouraged by this success, he founded Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion with Veronika Franz in 2003, not only to produce their own films, but also to provide production conditions for filmmakers that were different from those offered by conventional production companies.
Since then, Seidl has produced his own films. The first, Import / Export, premiered in competition at Cannes in 2007. It was followed by the award-winning trilogy Paradise: Paradies: Liebe / Paradise: Love (2012), also in competition at Cannes, Paradies: Glaube / Paradise: Faith (2012), Special Jury Prize at Venice, and Paradies: Hoffnung / Paradise: Hope (2013), premiered in competition at Berlin; the film-essay Im Keller (In the Basement, Zabaltegi, 2014); Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's first feature film, Ich seh, Ich seh (Good Night Mother, 2014), and Seidl’s film Safari (2016), all of which premiered at Venice. In 2022 he returned to the Berlin competition with Rimini, the first part of the diptych that closed Sparta, with which he competed for the Golden Shell at San Sebastian 2022. Its combined version, Böse Spiele – Rimini Sparta / Wicked Games – Rimini Sparta, premiered at the 2023 Rotterdam Film Festival. Des Teufels Bad / The Devil's Bath, 2024, a historical film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, (produced by Ulrich Seidl with Bettina Brokemper as co-producer) won a Silver Bear for its artistic contribution in Berlin and is this year's Austrian entry of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film 2025.
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