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).
The Klasikoak label groups together the cycle of restored films that the Basque Film Archive has been programming at Artium Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Tabakalera in San Sebastián, the Cines Golem in Pamplona and the Cinéma Le Sélect in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, as well as two cycles that will be held in September within the framework of the San Sebastián Festival. On the one hand, the retrospective and, on the other, the Klasikoak screenings during the Festival which, since the 66th San Sebastián Festival, have included films like Akai Tenshi / The Red Angel, by Yasuzo Masumura, or Sátántangó, by Béla Tarr, among others.
So, this is a classic film festival extended in time and space. Klasikoak is heir to the historic tradition established by the San Sebastián Festival of rediscovering work by filmmakers, periods, themes or film languages, that it put into practice more or less right from the very start, with the retrospective devoted to René Clair in 1959, and the decisive commitment by the Basque Film Archive both to restoring and disseminating films.