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).
Santiago Loza (Córdoba, Argentina) bagged the Tiger Award for Best Film at the Rotterdam Festival in 2003 with his first feature-length film, Extraño (Horizontes Selection). The project for the movie participated in Films in Progress 2002 at San Sebastian. It was followed, among others, by Ártico (Films in Progress, 2008); La invención de la carne (Horizontes Latinos, 2009), which competed at the Locarno Festival; Los labios (co-directed with Iván Fund, 2010), for which its protagonists won the Best Actress Award in Un Certain Regard at Cannes; La paz (2013), screened in the Forum section of the Berlin Festival, and Malambo, el hombre bueno / Malambo, the Good Man (2018), which participated in the Panorama section of the same competition, in which Breve historia del planeta verde / Brief Story from the Green Planet (Co-Production Forum, 2019), won the Teddy Award for Best Film.
In 2020 he presented Edición ilimitada, co-directed with Virginia Cosin, Edgardo Cozarinsky and Romina Paula, in Horizontes Latinos at the San Sebastian Festival and in 2022 participated in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera with Amigas en un camino de campo / Friends on a Country Road. He was also producer of the film Nosotros nunca moriremos / We Will Never Die (Eduardo Crespo), which competed for the Golden Shell in 2020.
In 2019 he participated in the International Writing Program at Iowa University and in 2023 in the Shanghai Writing Program.