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).
Shelf Life launches with an unusual premise: might spending time among people who age cheese yield insights about what it's like for us humans to grow old? A peripatetic journey to farflung, unexpected locations - ranging from Japan to Tblisi - provides an immersive culinary and temporal experience, interspersed with odd visual meditations meant to spark new questions and curiosities.